User manual

Organizing your media library

Adding Media Sources

Media sources are folders or drives Boxee looks through to identify and add media

content to the TV Shows, Movies, Music, Photos and Files screens. By default, a

few sources are pre-defined in the Boxee installation, and those include your

operating system's default media folders (i.e. Microsoft Windows' "My Music", "My

Videos" and "My Pictures" folders).

You can add as many sources to Boxee as you like from your local hard drive,

external hard drives or from your network. You will need to make sure you have

access to shared folders in the networked computer hosting the media you want to

share. If the media source is on a Mac computer, you will need to define the share as

SMB.

There are several ways by which you can get to adding a source in Boxee.

From the Home Screen select one of the following methods:

1. Settings > Local Sources > Add Sources, select the source you would like to

add, select Add Source

2. Settings > Local Sources > Add Sources, go to the bottom of the list and

select Manually Enter IP / Name...

- Enter the Hostname or IP of the remote machine

- Enter the Username and Password of the remote machine and select OK

- Choose the drive, folder or file you would like to add and then select Add

Source

- NOTE: if you do not set a static IP for the source computer, the source

might become unavailable when the IP address changes.

3. Files, select the source you would like to add, from the left/slide menu select