I recently acquired an XBOX 360, and the first (and only) thing that annoyed me was that I could not use the playlists or ratings from iTunes without somehow transferring them to Windows Media Player on my PC. It was cumbersome, at best. I suppose I can’t expect a Microsoft product to natively work with iTunes, so I was prepared to write an application to sync playlists, ratings, and whatever else from iTunes to WMP.
After searching Google several times and finding nothing, I finally stumbled across Music Bridge. It does exactly what I need, including:
- Sync playlists
- Sync album covers
- Sync ratings
- Filter syncs based on date
- Has a GUI and a command-line mode
- You can sync from iTunes to WMP, or from WMP to iTunes
Perfect! I can now set up a cron job to perform this sync every night, or whatever.
The link above is to download.com, but there is more information here.
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I run Windows XP with ITunes, and I encountered the same problem as you. All my songs and stuff are listed through XBox 360, but it would take me days to find each song on some of my ITunes playlists.
If I run this program, will my playlists from ITunes transfer to WMP so I can have them on XBox 360?
Thank you for this post, it is exactly what I was looking for to set up music streaming with my 360 as an iTunes user.
Damn Microsoft and their closed-ness.
-Owl