Napster Media Center Plugin on Vista
Since upgrading from xp windows media center to vista home premium I have been unable to get Napster to work using its media center plugin the one that allows you to download and listen to music through the media center with the tv remote. The normal napster application works fine but not the plugin. It was provided free with windows xp media center edition but it doesnt appear to be there in vista meda center.
Looking on the internet it looks like this is the case that microsoft are not providing it free with media center probably because they have their own music download site now.
So thought I would ring Napster to see what thay had to say about it, hoping they were going tell me not to worry as they would be releasing it soon. I hoped this because I believe it was rather good and used it rather a lot.
Ringing Napster you are prompted with an automated message about which OS do you run press 1 for XP press 2 for Vista etc etc. So pressed the appropriate number for vista and the phone got answered by a nice chap with an american accent guess he was in america – lol. I explain my predicament and he is unsure what I am on about as he has no experience of XP media center, when I pressed him about a similar version for Vista he admitted to me that he hadnt even seen vista now what the hell is he doing on the end of a line where you have to press buttons to appropriate support staff when they havent even seen the basics like operating system.
Ah well, I immediately cancelled my subscription. If any one has any news about the media center plugin for vista I would be grateful not to mention restarting my subscription to Napster as I really did like it.
I’m trying to do the same thing but I’m having similar problems. Post something if you get it working.
Hi,
It looks like Napster has made progress with the plug-in for Vista Windows Media Player and Center.
From the WMP, select “Browse all online stores” from the Media Guide drop-down.
Follow the prompts and proceed to install.
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The Napster plugin will now be available through the WMC (Online Media -> Program library)
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Seems to be working okay.
looks to me like your windows media player isnt the latest perhaps you upgraded your existing xp media center to vista??
You need to use the napster plugin for Windows Media Player 11 HOWEVER that plugin ONLY works with 32bit versions of Vista (it will NOT work with 64bit Vista EVEN if you use the 32bit Media Player/Center).
So there you have it, install Vista 32bit, get the Napster WMP plugin, and be happy, or go back to XP like I did.
From WMP, select “Browse all online stores” from the Media Guide drop-down.
Follow the prompts and proceed to install.
The installer detected WMC and said Media Center Edition will be installed.
The only reason I haven’t subscribed to napster is that they don’t support 64 bit media center machines.