Add D:\shares\Music (or wherever your music is) to the list.Click the down arrow on the Library tab and click More Options.Set Startup type to Disabled (if not already).Click Stop (if it is not already stopped).
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Find Windows Media Connect Service, right click it and click Properties.Browse to Services and Application > Services.Click Start, right-click on My Computer, and click Manage.This step is possibly optional, but I had to do it.Open the WHS Console, go to Settings, and turn off Media Sharing.If you had Media Sharing turned on before, it will still be using Windows Media Connect 2.0 as included with WHS.
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Now, that doesn't alter your Media Sharing setup at all. Reboot WHS, launch your newly installed Media player 11.Go to the Compatibility tab and ticket the "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" box, and sleect Windows XP from the drop down.From the WHS admin desktop, right-click the wmfdist11.exe file and click properties.(this step was adapted from instructions I was following elsewhere - I'm not certain of the separate folders requirement, but I did it anyway) Extract the wmfdist11.exe and wmp11.exe and place them in separate folders on the C: drive of your WHS (not on a share).Open this file in an extraction program such as WinZip or 7-Zip (I used 7-Zip).
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The following is an excerpt from a post on the Microsoft Windows Home Server Forums detailing a hack to enable Windows Media Player 11 to be installed. Unfortunately, some of the newer devices (including Sony's Playstation 3) do not function with Windows Media Connect 2.0, and require Windows Media Player 11 to run and this is not available or supported on Windows 2003 (which Windows Home Server is based on). Windows Home Server ships with Windows Media Connect 2.0 installed enabling many uPnP devices to access digital media on your server.