music on an external hard drive

[IRmac24]

Hi - I need some help please. I have 20,000 music tracks in MP3 file format
on an external hard drive. the memory on my laptop is not big enough to
import them all in. Can I put a media player on the external hard drive and
play/burn music from there?

 

[Orange]

Hi - I need some help please. I have 20,000 music tracks in MP3 file
format
on an external hard drive. the memory on my laptop is not big enough to
import them all in. Can I put a media player on the external hard drive
and
play/burn music from there?

You could try. However, you should be able to play them in wmp without
having to import - what do you mean by that ?

Cheers,
Jerry

 

[Bill Graham]

Hi - I need some help please. I have 20,000 music tracks in MP3 file
format
on an external hard drive. the memory on my laptop is not big enough to
import them all in. Can I put a media player on the external hard drive
and
play/burn music from there?

I would import a small group of them to my "C" drive, and play them, and
then delete them before importing another group. When you delete them, it
won't delete them from the external drive, but only from the C drive that
you are "reading" them from. Whenever you move files from one hard drive to
another, it doesn't remove them from the drive you are leaving, but only
copies them to the new drive, so you will be able to do this without losing
them from the external drive.