Adding a new disk to the same music collection possible?

[al-zoir]

Re: Adding a new disk to the same music collection possible?

Thanks again, m8. Have to tell you that again during the install of the new version, I kinda 'lost' nearly 22.000 songs and had to download them again from the disk. Have two backups, the one in the same disk didn't work to bring out all the data of the songs' id tags. Fortunately, the other one I had kept in the laptop's disk did work and everything is OK now again. Does that mean that I have to do the collection's backup in the laptop's disk?

Waiting also your further answer, because I am afraid and surely can't afford any songs' loss. As for the skins, I've gone there but I could not download a thing and I don't know why my prudentials are not enough(cannot log in). Probably there's a lot to read again..Otherwise I am not in the proper level to deal with different colours and so on..

[xoas]

Re: Adding a new disk to the same music collection possible?

To get back the black screen on the My Music Collection screen, see:
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showpost...34&postcount=3 and
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...ighlight=black

I will address the other question later in detail but I think that if you add some tracks to a different drive and right-click, Add to dAP you will find that that is one easy way to add tracks from a different drive to dAP.

Best wishes,
Bill

[al-zoir]

Re: Adding a new disk to the same music collection possible?

I already did the transaction to the r3 beta 6 version (dates from 2004, and I did not know it?), I am satisfied from the result, but can you give me back the black colour of my music collection (don't seem to find how to change it)?

It is obvious I have a lot of studying to do, so much material in this forum!!!

[al-zoir]

Re: Adding a new disk to the same music collection possible?

Thank you very much for answering my thread. When I add tracks in my collection, my final move is to arrange the files in my root folder, right? I cannot add a new root folder there, and if I change it to the new one, I read there 'Warning, if you use this function, moves all music files listed in My Music Collection', so I'm afraid that if I do it, all my music files will move to the new folder.. Would you please tell me what you do in you in your case with the root folder, so you manage to have a playback from two? Am I missing something?

As for the r3 beta version, I think that when I used it once, I had some trouble, I don't remember exactly the kind of, and that it was extremely difficult to go back to r2 version again. I promise I will try it again, though. (I am not sure what I did, maybe I used a converter beta version)

[xoas]

Re: Adding a new disk to the same music collection possible?

Are you sure that you can't add tracks from a different drive in your system to dB Audio Player (dAP)?

My own experience running dB Audio Player (dAP) is that it can play tracks that are stored on more than 1 hard drive on a system. You can add tracks to dAP that are stored on a different hard hard drive as long as it is all on your system. My Music Collection only stores the addresses and other pertinent information about the tracks that are added to it, the tracks do not need to be physically located on the same hard drive.

There may be limitations in using the Arrange Tracks feature because I don't know that it can handle trying to organize tracks onto more than a single hard drive. But if you place tracks onto your new drive, I would think that you should be able to add those tracks to your My Music Collection.

I will add that I am using the r3 beta 6 version of dAP (from the Beta section of this forum), not the r2 "standard" version from the Products page. I would urge you to upgrade to the r3 beta version. It is more stable and powerful than the r2 version.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Bill

[al-zoir]

Have a great time playing back in random mode my music collection of 60.500 tracks of several kinds of music all in the same HD of 500 GB capacity. Now that the empty space of the disk is 70 GB, came the time to try to add a new HD to the system. Then discovered that it is impossible, since all the tracks are considered to be set on one file, on one HD. I think I'll have to make a new music collection for the new HD, and that it would be impossible to extend the random playback on the two (maybe more, later) discs. Or is it?

I would like you also to guide me what improvements should I make (maybe update, paying some sum) to have my little system running more smoothly, since I really love your program and maybe I have been close to the limits (laptop with 512 MB/Mo memory, mp3s in an external 500 GB disk, other two 250 and 500 GB (the future second music archive), external USB sound card).

Thank you with gratitude for your program that made my listening pleasure possible and waiting for instructions.