Media Center may be savvy when it comes to TV, but as a music manager it needs work. For starters, it's painfully slow at loading large music collections. If your library contains more than a few hundred songs, it can take several minutes before you're able to kick-start the digital jukebox. Unfortunately, there's no easy remedy for that, other than to hope Microsoft fine-tunes the tune system in the next version of Media Center. In the meantime, you can overcome a few other My Music problems and limitations--most notably the lack of a playlist editor and support for Shoutcast streams.

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