I have a AT&T Smartphone and I have all my music sync'ed from my WM Library.
Most of my music in my library is stored on a network drive at my house and
when I am at work I can not access that music in WMP. However I do have all
my music on my Smartphone so when I connect my smartphone to my PC is there
a way to play the music that is stored on the Smartphone through my WMP on
my PC? I was able to do this with my creative Zen and the software that
came with it to play music directly from that Zen, but I couldn't do it
using WMP, I had to use the ZEN software. Is there a way to do this with
WMP11?

Re: playing media from smartphone in media player by zachd

zachd
Mon Mar 24 10:22:21 PDT 2008


No, this isn't supported. You could however download the files from your
phone to the PC, though.

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"Scott Micale" <smicale@hh.hrm.lan> wrote in message
news:exGu%23$biIHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I have a AT&T Smartphone and I have all my music sync'ed from my WM
>Library.
> Most of my music in my library is stored on a network drive at my house
> and
> when I am at work I can not access that music in WMP. However I do have
> all
> my music on my Smartphone so when I connect my smartphone to my PC is
> there
> a way to play the music that is stored on the Smartphone through my WMP on
> my PC? I was able to do this with my creative Zen and the software that
> came with it to play music directly from that Zen, but I couldn't do it
> using WMP, I had to use the ZEN software. Is there a way to do this with
> WMP11?
>
>
>



Re: playing media from smartphone in media player by Scott

Scott
Wed Apr 23 12:47:12 PDT 2008

yes, but that is not a ideal way of using the products. Why take up space
on 2 different devices. Another MS blunder!!!

"zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:eSJiaOdjIHA.5724@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> No, this isn't supported. You could however download the files from your
> phone to the PC, though.
>
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> --
>
> "Scott Micale" <smicale@hh.hrm.lan> wrote in message
> news:exGu%23$biIHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>I have a AT&T Smartphone and I have all my music sync'ed from my WM
>>Library.
>> Most of my music in my library is stored on a network drive at my house
>> and
>> when I am at work I can not access that music in WMP. However I do have
>> all
>> my music on my Smartphone so when I connect my smartphone to my PC is
>> there
>> a way to play the music that is stored on the Smartphone through my WMP
>> on
>> my PC? I was able to do this with my creative Zen and the software that
>> came with it to play music directly from that Zen, but I couldn't do it
>> using WMP, I had to use the ZEN software. Is there a way to do this with
>> WMP11?
>>
>>
>>
>
>

Re: playing media from smartphone in media player by Frank

Frank
Thu Apr 24 10:47:54 PDT 2008

Scott Micale <smicale@hh.hrm.lan> wrote:
> yes, but that is not a ideal way of using the products. Why take up space
> on 2 different devices. Another MS blunder!!!

(Assuming your AT&T Smartphone stores music in a normal format like
MP3,) Can't you just access (the memory of) your Smartphone as a
(Removable Disk) drive on your work PC, and let WMP play the music from
that drive? If not, why not?

FWIW, I do this all the time with my MP3 player.

> "zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:eSJiaOdjIHA.5724@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> >
> > No, this isn't supported. You could however download the files from your
> > phone to the PC, though.
> >
> > --
> > Speaking for myself only.
> > See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> > rights.
> > --
> >
> > "Scott Micale" <smicale@hh.hrm.lan> wrote in message
> > news:exGu%23$biIHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> >> I have a AT&T Smartphone and I have all my music sync'ed from my WM
> >> Library.
> >> Most of my music in my library is stored on a network drive at my
> >> house and when I am at work I can not access that music in WMP.
> >> However I do have all my music on my Smartphone so when I connect
> >> my smartphone to my PC is there a way to play the music that is
> >> stored on the Smartphone through my WMP on my PC? I was able to do
> >> this with my creative Zen and the software that came with it to
> >> play music directly from that Zen, but I couldn't do it using WMP,
> >> I had to use the ZEN software. Is there a way to do this with
> >> WMP11?

Re: playing media from smartphone in media player by zachd

zachd
Thu Apr 24 12:23:42 PDT 2008


"Scott Micale" <smicale@hh.hrm.lan> wrote in message
news:98351A14-B562-422C-B154-9EE0D977628C@microsoft.com...
> yes, but that is not a ideal way of using the products. Why take up space
> on 2 different devices. Another MS blunder!!!

There are a variety of ways to do everything, and most new feature requests
such as yours would require some surprisingly significant level of work to
implement which takes away from other items in the schedule. Given the time
frame of Windows Media Player 11, it wasn't possible to add this interesting
feature, sorry. This is a known feature request, though, and I appreciate
your feedback.

--
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.



Re: playing media from smartphone in media player by Scott

Scott
Fri May 23 07:20:59 PDT 2008

Frank,

Yes I could do this, but I guess it is more of a convenience thing and how
the products should work together.

-Scott

"Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote in message
news:67bve9F2ojhioU1@mid.individual.net...
> Scott Micale <smicale@hh.hrm.lan> wrote:
>> yes, but that is not a ideal way of using the products. Why take up
>> space
>> on 2 different devices. Another MS blunder!!!
>
> (Assuming your AT&T Smartphone stores music in a normal format like
> MP3,) Can't you just access (the memory of) your Smartphone as a
> (Removable Disk) drive on your work PC, and let WMP play the music from
> that drive? If not, why not?
>
> FWIW, I do this all the time with my MP3 player.
>
>> "zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:eSJiaOdjIHA.5724@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> >
>> > No, this isn't supported. You could however download the files from
>> > your
>> > phone to the PC, though.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Speaking for myself only.
>> > See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> > rights.
>> > --
>> >
>> > "Scott Micale" <smicale@hh.hrm.lan> wrote in message
>> > news:exGu%23$biIHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> >> I have a AT&T Smartphone and I have all my music sync'ed from my WM
>> >> Library.
>> >> Most of my music in my library is stored on a network drive at my
>> >> house and when I am at work I can not access that music in WMP.
>> >> However I do have all my music on my Smartphone so when I connect
>> >> my smartphone to my PC is there a way to play the music that is
>> >> stored on the Smartphone through my WMP on my PC? I was able to do
>> >> this with my creative Zen and the software that came with it to
>> >> play music directly from that Zen, but I couldn't do it using WMP,
>> >> I had to use the ZEN software. Is there a way to do this with
>> >> WMP11?