Rip Music To Hard Drive?

**Derrick Barra** · 10-19-2006, 10:24 PM

Guys, is there any fricken' way to get music onto the 360 hard drive from my computer without streaming it (because that doesn't actually work, and I have Service Pack 1). How the hell do you guys rip music to your 360? Do you always have to have an ugly thumb stick coming out of your 360 like some kind of fat white guys E-Penis?

***D3adcell*** · 10-19-2006, 11:48 PM

As far as I know you can only rip from like CD's. You should just upgrade to service pack 2 and get the media extender and stream files. It works great. I have like 12 gigs of music on my computer and there is no way i'm going to get all that on my 360.

**gljvd** · 10-19-2006, 11:53 PM

I have an old 60 gig drive and i went on new egg and got a 25$ usb to ide shell for it . With that i plugged it into my 360 and just use that

**Derrick Barra** · 10-20-2006, 01:23 AM

Yeah I have an external hard drive (hard drive+shell like you) but It's just the hassle is what gets to me.

Oh and I can't upgrade to service pack 2 for *cough* reasons.

**gljvd** · 10-20-2006, 01:31 AM

plug the drive into your pc , rip it all to that hardrive , then plug it into your xbox .

All done

***D3adcell*** · 10-20-2006, 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by Derrick Barra

Yeah I have an external hard drive (hard drive+shell like you) but It's just the hassle is what gets to me.

Oh and I can't upgrade to service pack 2 for *cough* reasons.

You can download it the same way you got windows xp

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**Derrick Barra** · 10-20-2006, 03:18 AM

Well thats not the main reason I don't have SP2 (although it's up there [lazyness]), to make a long story short SP2 will destroy my Windows install if it gets anywhere close to it. (Drivers on my computer are all like "DUH-HUR? WINDOES CAN UPGRADEZ? OH NOES'EZ!!" )

Seriously I'm a kick ass techie but there are some things about Windows that just don't work no matter how long you cry.

plug the drive into your pc , rip it all to that hardrive , then plug it into your xbox .

O Rly? I'll have to give that a shot!

**Derrick Barra** · 10-20-2006, 04:39 AM

Oh fiddlesticks, I tried it and it didn't recognize the hard drive. Got any other ideas?

**gljvd** · 10-20-2006, 04:48 AM

what didn't recognize the hardrive ?

The pc ? If the pc didn't notice it do this

Start menu - control panel - Administrative tools - Computer management -

Click storage - Disk Management -

Then see if it shows an extra disk (hardrive) it may not be assigned a drive letter which you have to do using the options there or you can go into it through there. Sometimes this happens

**Derrick Barra** · 10-20-2006, 05:00 PM

Sorry I should have clarified, the 360 doesn't show up as a compatible device, since the 360 treats hard drives differently I suppose it won't work. Your most likely using the same setup as me though, so I don't see why it wouldn't show up.

**gljvd** · 10-20-2006, 08:30 PM

huh ?

Once i plug my hardrive into the 360 it works fine using usb ?

What i have is a 60 gig ide hardrive using a case from newegg to make it usb . I connect the hardrive using usb to the pc . On there i copy over all my songs that i have for my ipod onto that hardrive. I then unplug the hardrive and connect it to my 360 via usb and then my 360 sees all the songs (that don't have apples drm on it)

**BillCosby** · 10-20-2006, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by Derrick Barra

Sorry I should have clarified, the 360 doesn't show up as a compatible device, since the 360 treats hard drives differently I suppose it won't work. Your most likely using the same setup as me though, so I don't see why it wouldn't show up.

did u buy the drive as an external drive, or did u purchase a hdd and put it in an enclosure. The reason I ask is if you bought an external drive (already in the case) the 360 probably doesnt support it, b/c it requires certian drivers. Your PC will see it fine, b/c windows has the drivers built in (plug-n-play). If you were to buy a drive, and purchase the enclosure seperatly you could put it together, plug it up to your computer, format the drive (win32), and then the 360 will see it. Thats what JVD did.

**Derrick Barra** · 10-21-2006, 03:30 AM

Nope, this suckers got win32 on it and it's a Hard Drive+Enclosure, I'm gonna screw around with it a bit more and see what I can do..

**gljvd** · 10-21-2006, 07:18 AM

see mine has no os , its just formated.

**Derrick Barra** · 10-21-2006, 03:20 PM

Wait, how can you have "No OS"? Don't you have to have some kind of formatting done to your HD in order to allocate data onto it?

Anyways I reformatted my HD as a Win32 partition and my 360 recognized it, however I don't see any options to rip music onto the 360 HD. How did you guys do it?

**gljvd** · 10-21-2006, 08:17 PM

its formated yes , but it has no operating system.

I use ntfs for my partions not fat 16 / 32 . No clue what win 32 is

**Derrick Barra** · 10-22-2006, 02:57 AM

Alright well I just reformatted as NTFS to see if that would do anything, however once in that format the 360 won't recognize that the hard drive is plugged in. When it was a Win32 it would show up as a USB drive but there was no option to rip music to it; where is the option located on the 360 to rip the music to the hard drive? Like what button do you press?

I'm getting kinda tired of doing all this crap just to have the convenience of listening to music on this thing, what a pain just to transfer some simple files!

**gljvd** · 10-22-2006, 04:27 AM

i thin kyour missing it . You have to have the music already on it . use your computer to rip the music to it then hook it to your pc

**Derrick Barra** · 10-22-2006, 08:42 PM

For clarification this is what I'm trying to do..

Computer>Removable Hard Drive>Xbox 360

I'm trying to get music to my 360 using my external hard drive, and from what I can tell the 360 doesn't recognize USB drives using NTFS formatting, only Win32. But even with a Win32 hard drive there's no option on the Xbox 360 to transfer music from my external hard drive onto the Xbox360's hard drive. Gaaayyy.

But you keep saying that you can do it, so how is it done?