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Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

DorsetRed — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:35:07 GMT

is there an easy way to link a music library up to play through this tv?

i have about 10,000 songs on my home pc all in iTunes. I've just got a new 49x8305c tv, and want to be able to play this music through it. Is that possible?

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 21:56:53 GMT

Hi there

I dont have any experience with iTunes, but a Google search in connection with Kodo, brings up the following:

http://www.trevorayers.com/how-to-play-itunes-library-in-kodi/

See if it works anyhow.

Cheers

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

DorsetRed — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:49:40 GMT

Thanks. Unfortunately this shows how to add your iTunes library to Kodi on a desktop or Mac, but not to link it up from the pc to the tv.

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:10:20 GMT

Is there no way to adapt those instructions for the tv - i assumed it would be similar?

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

DorsetRed — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:17:02 GMT

Not really. They tell you how to link to the folders, which works fine on a PC, but when I link to them on KODI on my Android TV, they can't find any music. Additionally, it's not really geared as a music player in the same way that iTunes is I don't think.

Is there anything else out there which will do this?

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

DorsetRed — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 11:44:57 GMT

Would Plex handle this any better?

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

DorsetRed — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:57:15 GMT

Looking at it, I should be able to connect to my home PC on the network through the Google Music Player? However when I go to my network it doesn't give me an option to connect or log on or anything? Are there any other options for doing this?

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:02:53 GMT

Is your computer setup as a DLNA server? Meaning do you have anything like Plex Server or Serviio running - if not, this needs to be done in order to play files from a pc to a tv

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

DorsetRed — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:49:45 GMT

It's not at the moment, becasue so far I've just set it up to play video files from my PC, which I can do using KODI/ES File Manager, without the need to set up a server. I have been looking at PLEX, but don't know if that has a proper UI for playing music in a logical manner. As I say, I can access the files in KODI, but have no proper way of playing them. But in Google Music, it wont let me connect, even though there's clearly an option to.

Maybe I'll haev a play around with PLEX tonight.

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

jesstan — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 09:12:08 GMT

Use Google Music. You don't need to subscribe to the premium service. You can upload/match up to 50,000 songs free of charge. It works very well. I also use Plex which costs but is excellent. Interface similar to Google Music.

Re: Playing music through Android TV on Sony x8305

DorsetRed — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 10:10:45 GMT

Ah I might try that, however I do have it working on plex and with Plex there's no charge for the server on my PC or the Android TV version, so that's working for free and works OK. At least with Plex I can also access the photos on my PC and the films on my PC so have everything in one place.