Playing my music files on XBox One S

WilJohnson · Sep 5, 2018

Hi!

I have an XBox One S, which is on my home network. I have thousands of songs on my Windows 7 desktop. I want to stream music from my desktop, through the XBox.

First, I can't get the XBox to "see" the desktop over the network. The network includes a router, and three separate switches. The PC and XBox are on two different switches, but I don't know if that matters.

Second, I'm unsure of what app to use with the XBox. Note: I don't want to play music in the background while gaming - I just want to stream my files, for playback through my audio system.

Third - I considered that I might need to load my songs onto a USB drive, and plug it directly into the XBox, but this seems like a clunky solution.

I would appreciate any help in resolving this problem!

:)

Emerald King1390 · Sep 5, 2018

Playing Local Files In Groove Music (Xbox) Needs To Be Better

I am trying to play
local music files (all .mp3) from my Xbox One S using Groove Music and there are a lot of problems. Yes, I already know about and have used OneDrive to listen to music with Groove on my Xbox before but I would rather use local files. The music files where
put in the Music folder in the Xbox One File Explorer app. When you open Groove Music with local files on the Xbox, it won’t show any of the songs and there is no option to tell Groove where to look for music (like there is on Windows 10 Groove Music), there
is only the option for the OneDrive Music folder. The only way to open local files in Groove is to go into File Explorer and open the file there, which will then open Groove and play the song. But:

The
song(s) still doesn’t show up in the My Music section

You
can’t skip to the next track

You
can’t add the song to a playlist

You
can’t see the next songs in the queue

To play the other songs
(where they automatically play after each song ends), you must let the first song fully finish playing (or skip to the end of the song). Only then the next song will start playing and the other songs that are in the Music folder will show up in the queue and
you can skip to the next track. They will still not show up in My Music and you can’t add the songs to a playlist. Songs you listened to also won’t show up in the Recent Plays section. The TL;DR: make Groove Music (for Xbox) show local music files in the My
Music section and make them act the same as a OneDrive music file would act. Thank you.

King PWNinater · Sep 5, 2018

Playing music while gaming...

How do I play music on my Xbox without using mp3 files on my Xbox while playing a video game?

coco meat train · Sep 5, 2018

Plex should be able to handle this no problem.

XBO Metal

OK so i am plugging an 8 G USB into my Xbox 360 s.

Formatted as FAT32 on my Win 7 PC.

Adding the music in a folder or not in a folder.

When attempting to access the music to play it the Xbox cannot find any music files.

coco meat train

Plex should be able to handle this no problem.

airmattdog

You can put your music onto a USB3.0 drive, plug it into the Xbox One S and use the Simple Background Media Player to play the files. Otherwise, there's no other way to get your music onto the console.

AquaDSLGuy

Hey Oscar, this would be great if it worked, but for me it does not. I have similar music library situation I was able to listen to fine with old Windows XP PC on the xbox system music player. Now with Windows 8, I cannot stream any music onto my xbox through
the system music player or xbox music app. The PC is found as a source but but everything comes up as blank or missing from the xbox. I tried xbox music and it will not see my files on Windows 8 either. I have placed all files saved on local PC's hard drive
into the Windows 8 MyMusic library and all the files play fine in Windows 8's music player, just not the xbox streaming.

Does anyone know how or if you are able to play your existing music files saved on your Windows 8 computer on your xbox?? will Microsoft give an answer or solution date with future updates?

Matt_2013

I am having the same issue. I copied a bunch of Windows Media files from an older machine into my Surface Pro's music library. I can use File Manager to open and play files one by one ... but they don't show up (for example by Album) in My Music within the
Music App.

... And I get a message "It's lonely here. Why not add some music?" In File Manager, the directory with all the music files shows up in the Music Library. And I am also seeing the message "Your music is hidden by the filter."

Playing my music files on XBox One S