Updating Xbox Media Player
Original idea from w m z
Why update?
Updating is done because the developers are constantly releasing new and or improved versions of
Xbox Media Player.
First things first
Just like it is important to back up your C and E drives when you first get into
the whole world of modding, the same applies here. Only you're not backing up
the C and E drives this time. You'll just want to make a backup of the XBMP folder you have.
Wether it's on the E or F drive.
Why backup?
Backing up is done to preserve any adjuments you've made.
By adjustment I mean, anything you've added to XBMP after the original install.
This includes, thumbnails, shortcuts, dll files and the media folder if you've changed skins.
For example, I have 50 full mp3 albums on my Xbox. For each one I also have a thumbnail of the cd.
Now if they accidently got deleted when updating...that would not be a good thing.
I'm sure you don't want to have to make all your thumbsnails over again either. So Backup first!
Point releases vs CVS builds
The easiest way to explain this like so...
Point releases are official releases.
The first releases Xbox Media Player 2.3 and 2.4 would be considered Point releases.
CVS builds are work in progress builds.
They can include old bug fixes, new features, and sometimes new bugs.
Copying the new version over to your Xbox
There are twos ways to go about this. 1. the easy way or 2. the cautious way.
The easy way would be to just copy the contents of the new XBMP folder into the old one.
However, if you want to try it out before replacing your current version,
(to see if there are any bugs that may be too bothersome.) then follow the steps below...
FTP into your Xbox
Rename your old version folder to XBMPOLD ( just so you know it's the old one)
Copy the new version to you Xbox in it own XBMP folder.
Then copy over the backup stuff you want to use. Thumbnails, dll's, Shortcuts and Media folder.
Make sure everything is put where it goes. Your backed up thumbnails go in the new versions
Thumbs folder.
This way when you reboot the Xbox, Evox will still see Xbox Media Player as it always has.
Only it will be a newer version, not the old one.
But before you go and Launch it there is still one more step to follow.
Deleting the system.bin file
The system.bin file is where Xbox Media Player stores all the software adjustmnts you've made.
This adjustments include items that you change in the Settings option from the main menu screen.
It's necessary to delete this files because a new version of XBMP may have problems
with the old versions system.bin file.
This file is automatically replaced by XBMP if one is not found.
The system.bin file is located on your E: drive under /E/TDATA/0face007/
Go ahead and just delete everything in that folder.
Example (Deleting the sytem.bin file)
Checking to see if all went well
After you've deleted the system.bin file, reboot your Xbox and Launch XBMP.
This is where you'll test it for any of those bothersome bugs.
If your happy with the new version then great. You can go delete the XBMPOLD folder.
If not, then, delete the new folder and rename the old one from XBMPOLD to
just XBMP. You'll need to delete the system.bin file again as well.
Reboot again and everything will be back to the way it was.
NOTE: Whenever you delete the system.bin. file you need to adjust the options in
the Settings menu again to your liking. Like Show ID3 Tag Info etc.
Tip
For some reason when you calibrate the screen for a movie,
not only is it applying to the movie
but it also adjusts the Main XBMP interface.
This can be noticed by the odd effect at the top off the screen where it displays filenames.
Instead of a single line of text there will be two.
The easiest way to fix this is to go and delete the system.bin file again.