Xbox Music Error: Can’t Play 0xc00d11cd (0x80004002)

This is pretty strange.

One of our workbench systems is tied into our Xbox Music Pass and happily sends tunes into the shop while working.

Wanting to start some tunes while remotely connected from the front office via RDP produced the following error:

Can’t play.

Please try again. If the problem continues, visit www.xbox.com/support to check for guidance.

0xc00d11cd (0x80004002)

Okay, tunes were working just fine yesterday evening while working in the shop so what gives?

We logged into the physical machine and attempted to play the tunes again. Sure enough, after logging in and hitting play on one of our playlists we heard tunes.

We now have 500 watts of THX certified sound happening! :D

Have finicky ears? Then check out the Logitech Speaker System Z906 THX certified speakers. They sound absolutely phenomenal.

The moral of the story? Xbox Music will _not_ work when connected via RDP session.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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Windows 8: How to Find An Artist, Song, Album, And More in XBox Music and Add To A PlayList!

Okay, so one opens the Music App on the new UI (formerly known as Metro).

Right click anywhere and there is no Search to be found when wanting to look up something.

Thanks to fellow MVP Susan Bradley the somewhat counter-intuitive process for finding music has come to light.

1. Hit the Start button on the keyboard to bring up Metro (can’t remember what its called at the moment).
2. Start typing the name of the artist/song/album:
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3. Click on the Music tile/icon in the list of available search locations below.
4. And, voila:
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5. In the Search Results scroll down for the song we are looking for and click on it.
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6. Click the Add to my music button.
7. Click the Left Arrow beside “Results for” near the top left corner of the screen.
8. Click my music
9. Sort by date added
10. Right Click on the newly added song and click Add to playlist.
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Wow, isn’t that easy?!? :P

We may just stick with the Zune App that can be installed on Windows 8 for now as we have a Windows Phone as well as a Zune HD to sync.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

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