MC shares content from un-shared folders

I have Media Center grabbing and displaying files from various directories
that are not shared. It will not even show the path to these directories in
setup/library so I can remove them. I do not have this problem with Media
Player since I can tell it to “ignore” and then delete them from the library
by the folder. I does not add them right back against my wishes like MC
does. I had to back up these files on DVD and then delete them to get them
out of MC. If I restore them to another directory, MC finds them again even
though I am not sharing it. I must be a bug. Help!!!

Hey Microsoft, did you ever consider that I might not want to share every
photo or video that is on my computer with everyone else. Who wants to see
photos of my dirty truck tires that I tried to sell on Ebay three years ago?
I tried to show off your stuff to my friends during a party but you embarrass
me in front of them instead. Just great!

Hello Microsoft! If you are going to call it "Media Center" then make it
work with every format. Quit telling us how great it is and then not support
some of our media that we think is very important. If you want to be the
"Center" of our media then you need to support it all. Then you would
probably truly dominate all and finally quit frustrating your customers.

Zune plays iPod songs but WMP will not. I found a codec to let WMP play
iPod songs. It only works with the 32-bit version of WMP. I guess I need at
64-bit codec to play iPod songs in the 64-bit version of WMP. I cannot find
one. Media Center is 64-bit so it will not play iPod songs with my 32-bit
codec since it is looking to the 64-bit version of WMP. I found an Xbox 360
download to play iPod tunes thru the USB. It works. Media center on the 360
will not play iPod songs connected to the 360. If you try to synchronize
photos with iPod, the iPod creates a cache folder in your photo directory
that media center finds and won’t let go of. We don’t need to see every
photo twice. You cannot tell MC to skip it. You cannot tell iTunes where to
put it. Zune and WMP want duplicate the iPod files that I have in iTune
directories since they discover them before I can tell them to leave well
enough alone. iTunes also creates duplicates on its own and will even show
you the duplicates as a feature, but it won't give you an option to remove
them. It should have never put them there in the first place. It just
converts a wma all and over-and-over-again without checking to see if it has
already converted them. Soon I will have triplicates!

I finally threw the iPod in the drawer, deleted iTunes, and now have to
re-rip about a hundred CD's in wma format even though I wanted to use Apple’s
format. Gates and company win again. That is what they wanted. I guess I
will have to buy a Zune device if I want it to integrate well with Vista.

I am really frustrated and I am good at this stuff. What is the average Joe
going to do? I think I am just going to stick all my CD's back in my
300-disk changer and play them that way. It works the way I expect it too.
And, it is simple.