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hjunior
09-21-2010, 09:02 PM
I am very happy with my UltraBay, but I've being using Microsoft Media Center and now I found one problem:

when I browse the items (for instance, musics) using the remote control, the FrontView only display the name of the main menu I entered ("Music"), so I cannot browse the albums titles (or artists, genres, etc.) to start playing a music without turning on my big screen TV set.

It would be very nice to have the items names on the FrontView while I am navigating accross them. Currently it shows the main menu "Music" and, if I used media before, the status of the media, for example, "Music - Video [Stop]", if I was previously on a video menu and just stoped the last view. That current media status maybe interesting, but it is very confusing. If I stoped the video like one hour ago, it would still display "Video [Stop]" even though I was in Settings menu and also browsed a lot of music, until I start playing another media.

For media status, I think it should say "Video [Stop]" as soon as I had stoped the video media, for some seconds and, then no more media status information. Maybe the [Pause] status could stay undefinedly, but it is not mandatory. The [Play] status is showed with media info and/or eq graph (those are good for both MCE and for iMedian).

For browsing in MCE it should be very nice if the name of the items browsed appeared in FrontView, at least for some seconds. For example, you navigate up-down "Movies" - "Videos" - "Music" (then, Enter and left-rigth) "<albums>" - "<genres>" - "<artists>" (then Enter and arrows) "Abba" - "Beatles" - "Carpenters", etc.

johnny.hur
09-25-2010, 01:08 AM
Dear hjunior,

Thanks for your suggestion.
iMON displays Media Center information based on the data received from Media Center. But Media Center doesn’t support navigation information. Currently there is no way to display navigation information of Media Center.
Only iMEDIAN HD supports navigation information. Please try to use iMEDIAN HD when primary monitor is off.

Regards,
Johnny Hur

hjunior
01-07-2011, 04:16 AM
Well, I do it for music and I am very happy with it. Just thought it would be nice to have the same on MCE (I am using 7MC, isn't there news in Win7?).

About navigating in iMedian I have an issue. I use "Folders ... depth" but I have a problem. There are two folders: "MP3" and "CD". Inside these there are folders with Artists names, inside those there are folders with Album names and inside those the musics. Well, there is a problem browsing the first level (Artists names), because the scan iMedian does find some (not all) of the folders twice: once with its real name (for example, "The Police") and other with old DOS 8.3 format (for example, "THEPOL~1"). How can I solve that?

johnny.hur
01-13-2011, 08:03 PM
Dear hjunior,

Please check “Library View” option in Setting>Media Library>Internal Library>Library View>Music. If it is selected with Tag based option, some text may be displayed with ID3 tag value. Please check again after selecting “Folder (Multiple Depths)”

Regards,
Johnny Hur