Ps3 how to setup a media server

A window will appear. Click on the plus button to add media. Find the right folders for your media and click Open to add them to Plex. Select it and then click Plex Media Manager in the popup menu.

This will open up a new window in your default browser. Click the Add button to add media. This can be done manually or by browsing your files. The added aesthetic makes everything look even more gorgeous. Secret weapon: If you have a network-attached storage device like an Apple Time Capsule with a GB hard drive in it , you can access it by mounting the drive on a networked computer. Then select your media server in the main PS3 window, and navigate to Folders — Volumes, and select the networked drive you want.

Even a super-fast 5GHz Select Options — Import. Scroll up, select Group Content, and choose an ID3 tag to group folders by. This helped me out because the music I copied to my PS3 was in a mishmash of Artist and Album folders; grouping them by Artist made it much easier to find items in a long list.

You can also sort folders from the Options menu. Sometimes this was because one of our computers had gone to sleep, and sometimes it remained a mystery. Odd problems like these usually disappear quickly. When the PS3 was originally released, streaming media was still in its infancy.

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Was this step helpful? Yes No I need help. Check to see if you have Media Streaming open. Then check to see that Media Streaming is allowed on that, because you need that open otherwise it's not going to connect on the PS3.

The next thing you need to do while you're still on your computer is open up Windows Media Center, and that's going to ask you to set it up if you've never done it before. On there you can select whether to share pictures, videos, music. It will ask you to add folders to the library of the Media Center, so you want to add the folders that you have your stored music or videos in that you want to share to your PS3.

Once you do all of that it's going to ask you a bunch of questions about your specific files in those, and you just tell it to use those locations and save all the changes, and then finish it, and leave the Media Center on.

The very last part of this setup is to go to your actual PS3, turn it on. In there you can check to make sure you're connected to the same wireless network that your computer is going to be connected to, because that's important. Go to whichever section you wanted to share things to.

Do that, and if everything went well, it'll say "one media server found," and an icon will pop up with whatever you named your media server on your PC when you were in your media streaming options earlier.

If that doesn't work - or if you're like me where it did work, but whenever you try to play any files through that they either go really laggy or they just don't work at all specifically videos or music , then you can use Universal Media Server. Universal Media Server doesn't just work on PC, I'm just going to only show it for that because that's what I have - but it also works for Linux and Mac. As you can see, it's open source and free and run by donations. When you download it and install and open it up it's going to be similar to Windows Media Center, where it's going to ask you where you want to locate your files.

On the bottom it's going to have shared folders. When you go to your PS3, you'll be able to see a little UMS icon in whatever section you're trying to share files to, whether that's pictures or movies or music.