Our Blog: Nullriver's Connect360 bridges Mac and XBOX 360 for media

Nullriver's Connect360 allows Mac users to share their media with their XBOX 360.  Nullriver says:

Your Xbox 360 is capable of playing back your music and videos and viewing your digital photos. With Connect360, your Mac's ready to share.

Connect360 automatically indexes your iTunes and iPhoto libraries and shares them to your Xbox 360. You can then use the Xbox 360 Dashboard to browse and play your media, organized in the exact same way that it is on your Mac.

You can also stream Internet radio, your iPhoto collection, and WMV+WMA, H.264 and MPEG4 video formats.

The software runs $20, which isn't too bad, I think. To put it in perspective a little, $49.95 would be way too much. But to connect your iTunes lists to your XBOX 360 is certainly worth it:

You can browse and play your iTunes music by song, artist, album, genre or playlist. As you add and remove content to/from your iTunes library, Connect360 keeps your Xbox 360 up to date.

You can even listen to your iTunes songs while playing a game on your Xbox 360! Now that's entertainment.

Further, Connect360 can automatically update your iTunes play count and play date for songs played on your Xbox 360.

This raises the questions:

• How much are you willing to pay to access your media?
• Have you seen other ways to connect your Mac to your XBOX 360?