Does NEON on 360 Work with streamed audio?

[Barney]

As topic title. I have a 360 which I stream my music to from my PC. All I get in the way of visualisation is a tiled album art background and some triangles which grow and float over the top if I'm lucky.

Any way to get NEON to work? Has it been removed in a recent firmware update?

[PVB]

It worked on my old (launch shape console, but with latest firmware update) the last time I tried it.

I'll try it now, hang on.....

[PVB]

Works fine:

[Barney]

Ahh, I'm streaming music over from the PC to the XBox, from the PC end with WMP. Maybe that's why I get no NEON.

[PVB]

My sharing was initially set up through WMP, but it doesn't need to be running.

Sounds like you need to go back to basics.

[Barney]

My sharing was initially set up through WMP, but it doesn't need to be running.

Sounds like you need to go back to basics.

That was the basics - I googled "stream media from pc to xbox 360" and the first page was a microsoft help/faq page which detailed how to send content from the PC to the 360 via WMP. Sharing is anything but basic; my xbox can't see the shared drives on the network whereas other machines can.

So I was just interested as to why I got no NEON when streaming via WMP - seems it's just not possible when sending media that way.

[PVB]

WMP must do something to how the 360 handles the files.

I just shared the folders on the PC via My Computer/Windows Explorer and then used the 360 to 'look' for the PC on the wifi network.