by dannyno » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:08 pm
Your symptoms, to make this as clear as possible, point to you having installed MM twice on two different computers. This probably means you have two mm.db files, which you will probably find in the default location on each machine.
You have your music on an external hard-drive, and you have told MM to look at that to find your files. So far so good.
However, playlists are I believe actually stored (unless exported) in MM.db. So if you create playlists on Machine A, Machine B won't know anything about them. And any changes to the playlists on Machine A won't be known to Machine B.
There seem to be a few solutions to this.
You can install MM portably on your external hard drive, and run exclusively from that. So your MM.DB, the MM executable file, and all your music files are on the hard-drive.
Or you can move mm.db to your external hard drive, and tell the .ini file on each machine where to find it (local installations, shared mm.db). Again, any problems with inconsistent driver letters/ID/whatever could break this.
Or you can make sure the MM.DB on your two machines is kept in sync. You could keep the master and backups on your external hard drive, and copy it to the PC you want to use MM on, then back again after making changes. Bit of a pain, maybe, but it would work. You can get software to do all the moving around for you.
I do the latter, but also have a portable installation of MM on an external drive. It works fine, though perhaps it's a bit fussy.
Your symptoms, to make this as clear as possible, point to you having installed MM twice on two different computers. This probably means you have two mm.db files, which you will probably find in the default location on each machine.
You have your music on an external hard-drive, and you have told MM to look at that to find your files. So far so good.
However, playlists are I believe actually stored (unless exported) in MM.db. So if you create playlists on Machine A, Machine B won't know anything about them. And any changes to the playlists on Machine A won't be known to Machine B.
There seem to be a few solutions to this.
You can install MM portably on your external hard drive, and run exclusively from that. So your MM.DB, the MM executable file, and all your music files are on the hard-drive.
Or you can move mm.db to your external hard drive, and tell the .ini file on each machine where to find it (local installations, shared mm.db). Again, any problems with inconsistent driver letters/ID/whatever could break this.
Or you can make sure the MM.DB on your two machines is kept in sync. You could keep the master and backups on your external hard drive, and copy it to the PC you want to use MM on, then back again after making changes. Bit of a pain, maybe, but it would work. You can get software to do all the moving around for you.
I do the latter, but also have a portable installation of MM on an external drive. It works fine, though perhaps it's a bit fussy.
