yarko75 Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Is there any way to downgrade to XP Home from windows media edition without having to buy the program, I don't want to spend 150$ on downgrading something.The reason I want to downgrade is because Windows Media is not capable on doing home recording, Home edition i able to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tap52384 Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Why not just change it to professional? MCE 2005 is professional with media center basically, but without certain functionality pertaining to network domains. None of these three editions should prevent you from doing that; what program did you use to do home recording? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yarko75 Posted June 7, 2007 Author Share Posted June 7, 2007 Its not the program but the driver thats installed to do the recording. Its called Tascam Us122L, i don't know if there are any other audio interfaces available which are compatible on Media Edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killerb255 Posted June 30, 2007 Share Posted June 30, 2007 Its not the program but the driver thats installed to do the recording. Its called Tascam Us122L, i don't know if there are any other audio interfaces available which are compatible on Media Edition.Can you give us a specific example of when this issue comes up? Are you recording TV from satellite? Cable? What tuner are you using?System specs?Driver date(s)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontwantspam Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 Since Media Center has everything Home has, and then some, there's no reason it shouldn't work. MCE is BETTER than Home edition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tap52384 Posted July 1, 2007 Share Posted July 1, 2007 MCE is better than Home, but Professional w/ MCE is the best (aka Windows XP Ultimate Edition) because a pure MCE 2005 cannot join a domain. How to add MCE to professional can be found here in the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontwantspam Posted July 15, 2007 Share Posted July 15, 2007 True. I actually rarely even use the Media Center part, but I like the Pro features without the added price, and since I'm not on a domain, it doesn't matter. But there are instructions on the web for how to add MCE to a domain, though I've never tested it. You can add it to a domain during setup, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnySixString Posted July 24, 2007 Share Posted July 24, 2007 (edited) Is there any way to downgrade to XP Home from windows media edition without having to buy the program, I don't want to spend 150$ on downgrading something.The reason I want to downgrade is because Windows Media is not capable on doing home recording, Home edition i able to do that.This is something I have to do as well. It's a known issue that recording/mixing interfaces and most DAW programs don't work with media center. I have xp media center on a pc I wanted to use for a home studio. I was actually just about to spend a few hundred on an Alesis io26 audio interface when I discovered media center isn't supported. I was thinking and hoping it wouldn't matter, because media center is just xp with the media center features, right? Well, media center and home recording apparently don't go together except for a few rare cases where people got lucky. I did some searching and found that none of the interfaces by any company supports media center. If you have media center and want to record tracks to your pc, it's most likely not gonna work and if it does work it's probably not going to be very stable. I'm not willing to roll the dice with those kinds of odds.So I figured, like the OP, I have no choice but to "downgrade" to XP Home from Media Center. I have no use at all for XP pro, I'm not using that pc for anything except recording and the occasional ripping/burning discs. So, as the OP asked, is there a way to downgrade the installed media center to what would be XP Home? Or do I need to install Home from a disc? By the way Yarko, I don't know about where you live but I see people selling legit copies of XP on Craigslist all the time. I'm looking at an ad right now for $60.****Just found this and it might work for you Yarko....I'm gonna try it myself. http://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/ts/det...=media%20center Edited July 24, 2007 by JohnnySixString Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idontwantspam Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 If you can find an XP Pro disk anywhere (a friend, your work, if you have it, etc.) then you could install XP Pro and use your XP MCE key and it should work. At least that's what I've been told... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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