XBOX ONE Media Player - Can I play my music while gaming?

Hi! I'm Luis, a fellow Xbox Gamer . Thanks for reaching us out here.

You can listen to music on your Xbox 360 console by connecting a portable media player, inserting a CD, or playing music from your console’s hard drive.

-From a portable media player:

Connect your media player’s sync cable to a USB port on the Xbox 360 console. There are two USB ports on the front of your console behind an oval door.

Press the Guide button  on your controller.

Move to Media, and then select Music Player.

Select Portable Device.

Select the music you want to play.

-Rip a CD

Load a music CD into the console disc tray. The music player starts automatically.

Select Rip CD.

Select the songs you want to copy to the hard drive, and then select Rip CD.

-Music while playing:

You can play music from a portable music player or your hard drive while playing a game. Here’s how:

Plug the sync cable of your portable media player into a USB port on the front of your Xbox 360 console.

Start a game, and then press the Guide button  on your controller.

Go to Media.

Choose Select Music.

Select the location of the music you want to hear (hard drive or a connected media player).

Press the Guide button  to return to your game.

Your music will play in place of the game soundtrack if the game supports custom music.

I'm not sure about the media player as I haven't tried using it, but one trick I use to listen to music is to snap Internet Explorer while using Pandora to listen to music while playing games. YMMV

Hello I Troll,



It is not possible to stream music to your Xbox 360 while playing games. But you can play music that is stored on your hard drive while playing games. Take a look at the information on our support page for

How to listen to music on your console. There are steps there to show you how to get the music onto your console, and how to play your music while playing games.



Let us know if that helps. Thanks.

At the moment the only way to continue hearing music that you are streaming through the media player is in a snapped mode.

If you would like to request an unsnapped feature that would continue playing you should do so in the Feedback Forums.

http://xbox.uservoice.com/

Corrected when trying to stream music on my XBOX One from my PC using media player app, I do this because playlists are also playable, the music files are no longer found. Video files and picture files are still able to be streamed. I am wondering since
the add of music to onedrive and xbox music did they remove the ability to stream music with media player. on another note the media player on the One is awful compared the players on the 360.