Getting confused on this !

[_Chris_]

Thanks all for the input - it's all appreciated. A prime example, is yesterday on my external hard drive via my laptop, I was rearranging two of the playlists, all good so far, then, today, on the extrenal hard drive, via the desktop, the playlists shows no changes?!?!?

[dannyno]

Thanks all for the input - it's all appreciated. A prime example, is yesterday on my external hard drive via my laptop, I was rearranging two of the playlists, all good so far, then, today, on the extrenal hard drive, via the desktop, the playlists shows no changes?!?!?

Can you clarify any of the points from my last post?

[_Chris_]

Thanks all for the input - it's all appreciated. A prime example, is yesterday on my external hard drive via my laptop, I was rearranging two of the playlists, all good so far, then, today, on the extrenal hard drive, via the desktop, the playlists shows no changes?!?!?

Can you clarify any of the points from my last post?

There was a few questions and am not too sure on the mechanics of it all, so please just ask one question at a time and we'll go from there. Many thanks.

[dannyno]

It's a month ago so the thought process has gone stale. Looking back, I see I was asking where your MM.DB file was stored.

Dan

[_Chris_]

It's a month ago so the thought process has gone stale. Looking back, I see I was asking where your MM.DB file was stored.

Dan

Thanks Dan, how do I find out please?

[nohitter151]

It's a month ago so the thought process has gone stale. Looking back, I see I was asking where your MM.DB file was stored.

Dan

Thanks Dan, how do I find out please?

If you don't know where it is, then it should be at the default location.

Unless you installed MM in portable mode.

[_Chris_]

It's a month ago so the thought process has gone stale. Looking back, I see I was asking where your MM.DB file was stored.

Dan

Thanks Dan, how do I find out please?

If you don't know where it is, then it should be at the default location.

Unless you installed MM in portable mode.

Okay, where's the default location?

[Lowlander]

Okay, where's the default location?

See: http://www.mediamonkey.com/support/inde ... ticleid=17

[dannyno]

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.

[_Chris_]

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.

Thanks Danny - the continued help (and patience) is appreciated. Sorry it's taken so long to get back on this, I'm working 12-14 hours a day at the moment ;-(

I think I'd like to go for installing the portable version on the ext hd, BUT, if I install that there, would it alter anything MM related on the ext hd please? For example, playlists?

[_Chris_]

Okay, I've installed portable MM Gold onto the ext hd, but when opening up that version, I can't see a way to import the playlists from the other version?