this should not be a problem.
You have a third party firewall in your network, which is preventing file sharing.
If you have a third party firewall (Like Norton, or Zone Alarm) that will have its own control panel and you will need to consult
the manual for your firewall.
If your PC is connected to a managed network, with a server sometimes the PC
being searched for needs to be server Workgroup.
4.
You can see the PC you want to play music from, but cannot find any folders on the PC:
The folder which has your music in it is not shared. You will need to locate the file
you want to share, right click on the folder, and select ‘Properties’, Then tick share this file.
The folder is not in an accessible place, i.e. it is in, My music, My documents or on
the Desktop. You will need to mode the folder to the root directory.
You have entered the wrong user name or password for the PC account you are trying to access. Check and re-enter the
user name and password, note the password is case sensitive.
You have a firewall running which is preventing the internet radio from seeing the shared folder. As a quick check, you can
disable firewalls like Norton to see if this overcomes the problem, if this resolves the issue then you can either leave the
firewall off, or allow file sharing through the fire wall.
Note: If you firewall is required to provide security for your system, it should not be left off.
Note: Although you can share a CD drive, you cannot stream music directly from the drive.
5.
Whenever I enter my media folder , the internet radio rescans the content of the folder:
Although the folder with your music in it is shared , it is ‘write protected’, so the
Internet Radio cannot save a list of the folder’s content back onto the PC, as it needs to rescan each time.
Tick the box that allows the Folder to be modified across the network.
6.
Although I can see my music files in the folder, I cannot play them and the Internet Radio says they are
‘Protected’:
When you copied the music files to the hard drive you had ‘Personal Rights management’ turned on, this protects the files from
being played by a third party
device like the Internet Radio, you will need to copy the music files again, but with the protection turned off.
You are trying to play I-Tune files which have been purchased from the I-Tunes on
line store, these are protected and can only be played on an I-Pod. Locally created or ‘ripped’ files for I-Pods can be
played as they do not carry the extra layer of Media Protection.
7.
I can access the PC with my Media, but when I change to the Use Account, I cannot see the folder , although
it is shared when I check my PC:
The Alternative account on the machine may be Private. If when the account was created, the ‘Make this account Private’
option was selected, then the contents of this account cannot be seen over the network. You will need to move the music
to an accessible account.
8.
I can’t share a folder , as the option is not highlighted:
The share folder option will not be available until you have turned simple file sharing on. Run the wizard.
Scan Error:
When the internet radio is scanning the content of the folders on a PC, it is possible that a scan error may occur if the
windows file sharing application times out. This is most likely to occur if both the PC with the media content and the
Internet Radio are connected wirelessly.
Try re-connecting the PC with the media content into the network via cable. This will dramatically increase the speed at
which the Internet Radio is able to scan the
content of the Media PC.
Playlists:
Some media ripping applications allow ‘Playlists’ to be created. The Internet Radio
is able to detect and stream these playlists, but they must be stored in the folder with the rest of the Media content and they
must have the file extension.m3u. Windows Media player can create suitable playlist, just select ‘create new playlist’, drag
and drop the tracks you want into the playlist, then use ‘Save as’ to ensure