| | joenez | Jan 20, 2006 6:11pm | | While streaming Mp3s from the PC, is there any other way to skip tracks? It sucks having to go back to a blade during game play to change a track. The old xbox let you change music tracks with the black or the white button. |
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| | CousCous | Jan 20, 2006 7:28pm | | I think you have to open the guide to do it now unless the game is programmed for it. I might be wrong though. I haven't been using that feature much lately. |
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Sponsor |  FreqWiz | Jan 21, 2006 1:16am | | If you find out let me know, I have not used that feature in a game. |
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| | CousCous | Jan 21, 2006 10:23am | I think though I'm not totally sure that you can switch songs in GTA: San Andreas using the controller in-game. It seems like I did it with Project Gotham Racing 3 the other day too.
I'm definitely sure it's possible. It's just up to the game developer wether or not it's implemented. I'm sure that EA won't take advantage of it because they get a lot of money from recording artists in return for featuring music in "EA Sports Trax".
There are a lot of other companies who do want it though. Microsoft Game Studios of course and it'll always have it's place in the GTA series. |
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| | Sn1p3rman | Jan 22, 2006 12:35am | in gta u could, it was left or right on the analog stick, (90%) sure :P
streaming from pc? hmm not sure, are u using the integrated music player? or the main guide button blade?
and it doesnt have to have it in the game, its universal, you can play music on any game cept for original xbox games, but works for any 360 game...
press the guide button (center X on the controller) and go down to where it says select music, it will then ask you from where do you want to play the music, my choices are either from my 460 HD or from my pc. you can also control the music from that guide blade, pause, back,foward,volume, and random. |
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Sponsor | | FreqWiz | Jan 22, 2006 12:38am | | Will the media remote change songs from another blade on the dash board? I would try that, hit the chapter advance on the media remote and see what happens. |
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| | joenez | Jan 22, 2006 10:54am | I just would like to change songs while playing in game. I don't want to have to pause, bring up the guide and scroll over to change tracks. The music on Zuma or Bejeweled will drive you insane.
I have read that when they release the webcam for the 360 they are updating the dashboard, with extra features,(just rumors at this point, nothing officially stated by MS). Maybe they will incorporate this functionallity for music ....................I dunno wishful thinking.. |
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Sponsor | | FreqWiz | Jan 22, 2006 10:58am | | #6, can you use the media remote for controling the media while in a game. My 360 came with what looks like a TV remote, and I can control music while doing a slide show with it, I was just wandering if it would work in a game also. |
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| | CousCous | Jan 22, 2006 11:03am | Yeah that's wishful thinking Joenez.
It's not up to Microsoft. It's up to the game developers to implement this feature. There's only so many buttons on the controller and if the developer want them all allocated then that's what he gets. If the developer chooses to leave two buttons available for the sole perpose of switching tracks then we get that.
It's how it was in the old Xbox and it's how it'll always be. Not every single game allowed us to switch the songs with the black and white buttons. Most games we still had to pause and select the tracks from a menu. It's not too much trouble to hit the guide button and switch the track. At least we have that ability. |
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Sponsor | | FreqWiz | Jan 22, 2006 11:13am | | I can not seem to stream and play Hextic, so I do not know how to answer this. |
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