Media player UPNP + raspbmc

I figured it out.

Just in case other's have this issue, I needed to navigate to "Services" on my PC - then stop my Windows Media Player Network Sharing service, then stop my UPnP Device Host service, the restart UPnP Device Host, then restart Windows Media Player Network
Sharing service. That did the trick!

Had That Problem Now Fixed It Doing This

For those that Play To is not available or it sits at Connecting to Media Server and doesn’t change: search for “services” in the windows search. I think it’s services.svc or something but mine just populates at the top of the list. Then right click on “Windows
media player network sharing service” select Stop. Right click on “UPnP Device Host” and select Stop. Right click the UPnP again and start it.

Start the Windows media player network sharing service again.

You should get past the “connecting to server” thing now.

worked for me

"Had That Problem Now Fixed It Doing This

For those that Play To is not available or it sits at Connecting to Media Server and doesn’t change: search for “services” in the windows search. I think it’s services.svc or something but mine just populates at the top of the list. Then right click on “Windows
media player network sharing service” select Stop. Right click on “UPnP Device Host” and select Stop. Right click the UPnP again and start it.

Start the Windows media player network sharing service again.

You should get past the “connecting to server” thing now."

This worked for me. thanks

"Had That Problem Now Fixed It Doing This

For those that Play To is not available or it sits at Connecting to Media Server and doesn’t change: search for “services” in the windows search. I think it’s services.svc or something but mine just populates at the top of the list. Then right click on “Windows
media player network sharing service” select Stop. Right click on “UPnP Device Host” and select Stop. Right click the UPnP again and start it.

Start the Windows media player network sharing service again.

You should get past the “connecting to server” thing now.

I did this and now have lost the "Play To" option completely...

Thanks for the reply sorry I was ambiguous. These are files on my laptop. I was using network sharing. I was using Media player to play the music in game. I actually solved the problem I believe. I went into my firewall and enabled sharing for media
player and I went into my router and enabled upnp and between the two of them (or one of them) It fixed the problem.