by wonko » Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:02 am
OK sorry if I was too cryptic. I'll try and explain what I did.
I keep all my music on a separate M: drive. My PC also acts as a server to other PCs and Squeezeboxes around the house, so the M: drive is shared (read permissions only!)
Initially I tried to set up the USB mass storage device to use a new, empty, directory M:\mp3 as the destination (in device profile, device configuration, I set the drive letter as "M" and prefixed the "Sync tracks to" with "\mp3\"). When I tried it I got the scary message offering to delete files from the M: drive.
So I thought I'd try it with the destination set to be a whole drive instead of a sub-folder (as that's probably what was in mind for USB pendrives etc.). There would be lots of ways of trying this (use a real pendrive or empty USB hard disk, use a separate physical hard disk or partition and assign it's own drive letter) but the easiest way for me was to set up M:\mp3 as a network share, and to then map an unused drive letter ("I:") to this share.
The net result (excuse the pun) is that if I browse M:\mp3 or the I: drive then I'm viewing the same files. In MM I changed the USB plugin to use the "I" drive letter, removed the "\mp3" from the start of the "sync tracks to" and it all seemed to work.
So to answer your question, yes I'm syncing to a folder on the network. It just happens to be on the same PC as MM is running on...
I wouldn't suggest that you use this solution unless you're reasonably familiar with networking and security etc.
Going back to MSDOS days you could do the same thing using the subst command - a quick search suggests this can be made to work on XP at least.
Hope this helps and makes some sense.
OK sorry if I was too cryptic. I'll try and explain what I did.
I keep all my music on a separate M: drive. My PC also acts as a server to other PCs and Squeezeboxes around the house, so the M: drive is shared (read permissions only!)
Initially I tried to set up the USB mass storage device to use a new, empty, directory M:\mp3 as the destination (in device profile, device configuration, I set the drive letter as "M" and prefixed the "Sync tracks to" with "\mp3\"). When I tried it I got the scary message offering to delete files from the M: drive.
So I thought I'd try it with the destination set to be a whole drive instead of a sub-folder (as that's probably what was in mind for USB pendrives etc.). There would be lots of ways of trying this (use a real pendrive or empty USB hard disk, use a separate physical hard disk or partition and assign it's own drive letter) but the easiest way for me was to set up M:\mp3 as a network share, and to then map an unused drive letter ("I:") to this share.
The net result (excuse the pun) is that if I browse M:\mp3 or the I: drive then I'm viewing the same files. In MM I changed the USB plugin to use the "I" drive letter, removed the "\mp3" from the start of the "sync tracks to" and it all seemed to work.
So to answer your question, yes I'm syncing to a folder on the network. It just happens to be on the same PC as MM is running on...
I wouldn't suggest that you use this solution unless you're reasonably familiar with networking and security etc.
Going back to MSDOS days you could do the same thing using the subst command - a quick search suggests this can be made to work on XP at least.
Hope this helps and makes some sense.