Stream on local area networks from xbox app

Basically you are running an app to stream your entire Xbox to your local PC.

Even though Game streaming is done over your local network, your PC still need the resource to be able to run the app - the concept is similar to playing a graphic intensive game on your mobile phone.

In your mums music app/music player there is usually an option (on Android at least) to cast to or to play on another device. Usually it can stream music to other devices on the local network. You'll need to unpair or delete your Xbox from her streaming
devices on her phone.

latman you need the subscription to use xbox music, and you can buy content using the xbox video app. but when stream locally/network it uses the apps functionality to play your content. so no subscription needed, but you do need to download the app

Well I realized Play To wasn't working because for some reason my wireless network connection was set to Public which has network discovery turned off. Changing a wireless network connection from public to private required registry edit believe it or not
- seeming a setting area that Win 8.1 didn't get right.

But the third party apps still can't stream despite them seing the Xbox and the Xbox makes the connection sound when I set it to the playback device but they just won't sync.

Pretty ridiculous I can stream from Android to a Microsoft device but not from Windows!

this article is about the xbox music app. not the xbox one. i cant imagine the xbox one wont let you stream media from your network. that would be a huge step backwards. i just read this as the xbox music app only access music from the cloud, so if you want
to put your music on the cloud you have to pay for that service.

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the media player and libraries should be able to be told to access files on the local hdd, the external hdd, or a network hdd. if not it wont be long before someone makes an app to do it.