Windows 7@home, Win XP@work . . how do you do it!

[sistegraf]

Hello,

I'm a new user to MediaMonkey. Have used Helium Music Manager before but MediaMonkey seems much better and clean.
I've been reading trough out the forum but I'm more confused than before! Please help.

I have 2 computers at work running XP SP3. One of them is the one I use the most so MM is installed there. The other computer has the songs (90GB) at the usual
My Documents/My Music. So I mapped a drive in the main computer to that location and did the "File/Add rescan tracks to the library", everything worked smoothly. I began to edit tracks and added more music to the collection.

I then had the idea to copy the My Music folder to an external USB portable hard drive and brought that home. I installed MediaMonkey in my home Windows 7 computer and did the same exact "File/Add rescan tracks to the library" thing. I edited some of the tags in my files (inside MediaMonkey), noticing that the info was updated when I looked at it in Windows Explorer so I taught that the info was saved there.

Next day back at work I returned all the My Music folder to the "server" computer from the USB hard drive with the modified files and once again "File/Add rescan tracks to the library" and guess what, it didn't work as expected. The tracks and folder that I edited were not updated.

Ultimately what I want to accomplish is to be able to move the collection between work and home PC's and If I edit anything in one machine it won't be lost when I update in the other.

Should I copy the INI and database to the USB drive?

Thank you.

[nynaevelan]

First just a couple of tips to make using both a little smoother. 1. If possible you should have them both setup to use the same directory structure and location. 2. You should only use one to make edits on, it would make the porcess much easier. Second, I do not know if I can make your process easier but this is my current practice. I use MM on a XP machine at work and Win7 at home, all my editing and adding is done on the home computer:

1. add new tracks and complete editing.
2. copy the database and new tracks to an external device (my mp3 player) but any will do.
3. copy the database to the work computer along with putting the tracks into their new home.
4. use the Move Device script to update the database to the new drive so the tracks are accessible.
5. at the end of the day export a playlist of all the tracks that have been played during the day. Use the same external device to transport the playlist, sometimes I email it to myself.
6. at home import the playlist into MM and use Add/Remove Playstats script to update the playcount.

This way I do not have to worry about missing tracks in the database as well as conflicts with editing in two locations. For those tracks where I have changed the location or name of the files on the work computer I use the Dead Links node to find them and fix them so they are recognized in the new database. For the most part the work computer is only used for playing, I try not to make any changes there, the same is true for my player.

[sistegraf]

Thanks a lot!
I will try your setup later on today and post results.
Thanks again!

[sistegraf]

Hi,

I followed the instructions in this post: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... &sk=t&sd=a and so far it is working like magic!

[nynaevelan]

Yes that should be a good solution if you plan to take the drive back and forth between home and work.