I think this is a common scenario for a lot of people. You have a lot of music on a 2003 server machine. A home server. Lets say that you like to share that music to your xbox 360, or zune, or another XP machine.
Well, the first option will be to install windows media player 11, and share your library, using the media sharing feauture. Well, no dice, because there is not a version of media player 11 compatible with a 2003 server. You can install it dont get me wrong, but just after some ugly hack in the installer. And still the media sharing feature will not work because the UPnN service is missing.
Ok Microsoft, so I will map a folder in my XP (Or vista) machine with all the music, and add that to the library of my media center 11 on that machine, and then use the media sharing feature in the XP machine to share the music. Still not luck there, because Microsoft decided that the media sharing feature should not work with shared folders. So you are kind of screw…
Luckily there is a nice substitute to the media player that just do what we need. And the best of all its free!.
TVersity lets user share their Music, Videos, Pictures in a matter of minutes and it works flawless.
It will work with anything. PSP, IPhones, PS3, XBox 360, Other computers of digital multimedia devices.
More screenshots here
Thanks to TVersity, I now can have a working home server
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