Music browser
 

Hello everyone, I'm new here but have been doing a lot of reading of active and old threads and cannot find an answer to my question.

I would like to be able to use the N800 to play music, stored on my PC hard drive, on my stereo equipment. I have a Windows Vista PC hooked up to a Digital to Analog Converter and use J River Media Jukebox as my music browser.

I do not want to listen to music on the N800 but only control my PC with the N800.

Thanks for any info,

Stan

Re: Music browser
 

rdesktop or vnc viewer?

Re: Music browser
 

Thanks chf11.

I have tried both rdesktop and vnc viewer but cannot get the N800 to connect the the 192.168.1.1 (.100, .101, .102, .103 ...) server.

Possibly I am not using the correct IP address or some other silly mistake ;~)

Stan

Re: Music browser
 

You can verify the Desktop's IP address with either:

Linux: ifconfig
Windows: ipconfig

from a command prompt. Obviously you may still have firewall or similar issues to overcome - or you may not even have vnc or similar running on the desktop to connect to.

Re: Music browser
 

I actually don't own an n800, but on the n900 you can directly access shared folders on your network from the media player.

Re: Music browser
 

mr id, thanks, I do not have vnc on my desktop. Should I install the VNC server version?

cfh11, how do I set up "shared folders"? Thanks,

Re: Music browser
 

I think its just right click -> properties -> share this folder or something like that. Just do a google search for sharing folders in windows vista.

Re: Music browser
 

Are you sure about this?

Re: Music browser
 

Yes, my N900 shows the computers connected to my household's wifi router in the file manager, but I can't access them (don't think sharing is setup on the computers).

Re: Music browser
 

Yep, the N800 can also directly access shared folders on my network from the media player. Problem is it does not allow me to listen to my music through my stereo, only through the N800.

Still working on VNC which is only free for Windows XP, not Vista or 7.

Thanks everyone for all your help.

Stan