How to properly install music

[Guest]

Hello all!
XP pro/SP2/current UD, P4/2.8 wHT/1G ddr/2 ntfs HD, WMP10
I am currently looking for a solution to music installations. I have just
completed a clean install and complete setup now I am at the music.
My previous problem was there are 5 users all adding their own music, in
total we have about 9gig of legal music. What happened before the 9gig turned
into 40+gig.
I looked for the book that came before Mediaplayer for dummies but I could
not find it. Can some kind hearted person please instruct me on how to
install the music properly so that all users can use it as intended without
having all the duplicates.
Thankful for any help
Oxford

 

[Mike Williams]

Hello all!
XP pro/SP2/current UD, P4/2.8 wHT/1G ddr/2 ntfs HD, WMP10
I am currently looking for a solution to music installations. I have just
completed a clean install and complete setup now I am at the music.
My previous problem was there are 5 users all adding their own music, in
total we have about 9gig of legal music. What happened before the 9gig turned
into 40+gig.
I looked for the book that came before Mediaplayer for dummies but I could
not find it. Can some kind hearted person please instruct me on how to
install the music properly so that all users can use it as intended without
having all the duplicates.

I am guessing that you have 5 users with different profiles who have
each asked WMP to scan the computer to look for all available music. If
that is the case then you simply have 5 separate indexes of 9GB, rather
than consuming an additional 36GB of disk-space.

Each user could put their own music into protected folders so other
users can't index it or play it. Alternately each user can use the
Options dialog's Library tab to specify which folders they wish to
monitor for music.

Without knowing how the 5 users add or intend to use the music
individually or collectively it is hard to provide further guidance. You
haven't actually identified any real problem so far AFAICT.

 

[Guest]

I am guessing that you have 5 users with different profiles who have
each asked WMP to scan the computer to look for all available music. If
that is the case then you simply have 5 separate indexes of 9GB, rather
than consuming an additional 36GB of disk-space.

Each user could put their own music into protected folders so other
users can't index it or play it. Alternately each user can use the
Options dialog's Library tab to specify which folders they wish to
monitor for music.

Without knowing how the 5 users add or intend to use the music
individually or collectively it is hard to provide further guidance. You
haven't actually identified any real problem so far AFAICT.

Honoured Mike
Yes the 5 users are seperate profiles
The extra 36gig used was indeed present it filled the C: drive and kept
giving disk errors, this is why I had to reload everything.
I think the original problem came from my oldest, being more familiar with
the loading of the music, it was all installed into his account and then
copied to the all user account which in turn caused each account to
automatically write all to each users WMP.
This is why I ask how do I do it CORRECTLY this time?
Again many Thanks
Oxford

 

[Mike Williams]

Honoured Mike
Yes the 5 users are seperate profiles
The extra 36gig used was indeed present it filled the C: drive and kept
giving disk errors, this is why I had to reload everything.
I think the original problem came from my oldest, being more familiar with
the loading of the music, it was all installed into his account and then
copied to the all user account which in turn caused each account to
automatically write all to each users WMP.

I still don't understand how this is being copied. It's not something
that WMP does. It may *move* music according to settings, but it doesn't
copy it. Perhaps you should have a word with your "oldest".

This is why I ask how do I do it CORRECTLY this time?
Again many Thanks

Again, I still have no idea how the 5 of you load or share your music.