Vista - Accessing media from a UPnP device in WMP 11

In a post-Beta 2 build of Vista, at one point I was able to open Windows
Media 11 and it automatically discovered my Maxtor shared server UPnP NAS
device with my music, videos & photos on it. I used it to stream my music to
my laptop. After upgrading to RC1, it seems that this feature no longer works
or is missing. I have made sure I have "Find media that others are sharing"
enabled in the "Media Sharing" dialog. I can see my NAS device in my
"Network", however no media shows up in WMP. Any ideas? Did something change?

Apparently network devices are not supported.

"Jeremy" <Jeremy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:25EAA942-B41A-481C-AB13-446591AF7FA2@microsoft.com...
> In a post-Beta 2 build of Vista, at one point I was able to open Windows
> Media 11 and it automatically discovered my Maxtor shared server UPnP NAS
> device with my music, videos & photos on it. I used it to stream my music
> to
> my laptop. After upgrading to RC1, it seems that this feature no longer
> works
> or is missing. I have made sure I have "Find media that others are
> sharing"
> enabled in the "Media Sharing" dialog. I can see my NAS device in my
> "Network", however no media shows up in WMP. Any ideas? Did something
> change?

That's no good. I have the same Maxtor setup here... I had to get around it
by mapping the drive.

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> Apparently network devices are not supported.
>
> "Jeremy" <Jeremy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:25EAA942-B41A-481C-AB13-446591AF7FA2@microsoft.com...
> > In a post-Beta 2 build of Vista, at one point I was able to open Windows
> > Media 11 and it automatically discovered my Maxtor shared server UPnP NAS
> > device with my music, videos & photos on it. I used it to stream my music
> > to
> > my laptop. After upgrading to RC1, it seems that this feature no longer
> > works
> > or is missing. I have made sure I have "Find media that others are
> > sharing"
> > enabled in the "Media Sharing" dialog. I can see my NAS device in my
> > "Network", however no media shows up in WMP. Any ideas? Did something
> > change?
>

But no word on why my Maxtor UPnP device would have shown up within Media
Player 11, with all the music, videos, etc. listed in there, one day, working
fine, then with the next update it's all gone? I've installed three
subsequent builds hoping that it was a bug and this feature would return.

Seems a shame that there are no good desktop media players out there that
make good on the promise of UPnP AV... iTunes does their own custom thing,
and Windows Media Player 11 doesn't even seem to support it anymore. Sounds
like an opportunity out there I suppose.

"intclass" wrote:

> That's no good. I have the same Maxtor setup here... I had to get around it
> by mapping the drive.
>
> "Mike Williams" wrote:
>
> > Apparently network devices are not supported.
> >
> > "Jeremy" <Jeremy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:25EAA942-B41A-481C-AB13-446591AF7FA2@microsoft.com...
> > > In a post-Beta 2 build of Vista, at one point I was able to open Windows
> > > Media 11 and it automatically discovered my Maxtor shared server UPnP NAS
> > > device with my music, videos & photos on it. I used it to stream my music
> > > to
> > > my laptop. After upgrading to RC1, it seems that this feature no longer
> > > works
> > > or is missing. I have made sure I have "Find media that others are
> > > sharing"
> > > enabled in the "Media Sharing" dialog. I can see my NAS device in my
> > > "Network", however no media shows up in WMP. Any ideas? Did something
> > > change?
> >