Windows Mobile and shared MP3s

I too have a ipaq, which way are you trying to share? Are you trying to access media off over a LAN on the device, or on your computer? If your trying to access the media off the device, I suggest copying it's entire folder to your computer first. Then point your PC's media player at this folder. If your trying to access media off your computer on the device, I suggest copying the entire folder to the device. Your question is slightly confusing for me. Are you trying to accomplish this with the Sync feature?

Sharing has never been a problem for me thats why I fully recomend the Ipaq over any iPod. Free sharing is ok in my book.

edit: It looks like your trying to play shared music on your ipaq, from a network source. I would recomend using the NUVO (sp?) software that came with your device for that. Are you basically looking for an "update library" function taht will import all the filenames from a remote source into your playlist? If so I think your out of luck. Either write your own media player implementation that can do this, or copy the entire folder to your media card.

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Original post by honayboyz I too have a ipaq, which way are you trying to share? Are you trying to access media off over a LAN on the device, or on your computer? If your trying to access the media off the device, I suggest copying it's entire folder to your computer first. Then point your PC's media player at this folder. If your trying to access media off your computer on the device, I suggest copying the entire folder to the device. Your question is slightly confusing for me. Are you trying to accomplish this with the Sync feature? Sharing has never been a problem for me thats why I fully recomend the Ipaq over any iPod. Free sharing is ok in my book. edit: It looks like your trying to play shared music on your ipaq, from a network source. I would recomend using the NUVO (sp?) software that came with your device for that. Are you basically looking for an "update library" function taht will import all the filenames from a remote source into your playlist? If so I think your out of luck. Either write your own media player implementation that can do this, or copy the entire folder to your media card.

I have music on my PC
I want to listen to that music, WITHOUT using 20 1 gig SD cards on my iPAQ
The only way the iPAQ lets me listen to music from my computer is by manually typing the network address of each individual file.

Anyone?

Download the compact framework SDK, create a small program that populates all the files in a specified folder, then using a media player object play them. I can write it for you but I dont have my sync cable right with my right now (its at work).

I did something to get around this, but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was. I think there's a registry hack to show the network folder under the device folder so it becomes visible to file open dialogs. If you can browse your network with File Explorer maybe double-clicking on audio files will enqueue it in your WMP playlist?

Lots of bugs and deficiencies in Windows Mobile unfortunately.

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Original post by outRider I did something to get around this, but I'll be damned if I can remember what it was. I think there's a registry hack to show the network folder under the device folder so it becomes visible to file open dialogs. If you can browse your network with File Explorer maybe double-clicking on audio files will enqueue it in your WMP playlist? Lots of bugs and deficiencies in Windows Mobile unfortunately.

So does anyone know how to do this?