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I'm trying to help set up a friend with a digital music system using
Windows Media Player 11 on XP. He has a rather old HP laptop, but it's
adequate to play mp3s using WMP, except that he's running out of disk
space. He needs about 20 GB more than he has now, so I figured the
cheapest, easiest solution would be for him to move most of his MP3
library to a 30 GB flash drive. I would then tell WMP to Monitor both
the hard disk location and the flash drive.
I tested the idea on my own XP desktop, but using WMP10 and a 4 GB
flash drive, and it worked fine. I was able to add the flash drive to
WMP's Monitor Folder list, and it saw, cataloged, and played the files
from there just fine. Problem is, his WMP11 will not let me add the
flash drive to the list of monitored locations - you can select it, but
the OK button remains grayed-out and unavailable.
For now I'm using a workaround: I shared his flash drive, and added the
UNC-named location to WMP. It seems be be working, but I'd rather have
it monitor the drive directly so as to avoid an additional layer of
complexity.
Is anyone familiar with this issue, and maybe know how I can make it
work the way I want to? Would downgrading to WMP10 help? Is it the size
of the flash drive that makes his experience different than mine?
Windows Media Player 11 on XP. He has a rather old HP laptop, but it's
adequate to play mp3s using WMP, except that he's running out of disk
space. He needs about 20 GB more than he has now, so I figured the
cheapest, easiest solution would be for him to move most of his MP3
library to a 30 GB flash drive. I would then tell WMP to Monitor both
the hard disk location and the flash drive.
I tested the idea on my own XP desktop, but using WMP10 and a 4 GB
flash drive, and it worked fine. I was able to add the flash drive to
WMP's Monitor Folder list, and it saw, cataloged, and played the files
from there just fine. Problem is, his WMP11 will not let me add the
flash drive to the list of monitored locations - you can select it, but
the OK button remains grayed-out and unavailable.
For now I'm using a workaround: I shared his flash drive, and added the
UNC-named location to WMP. It seems be be working, but I'd rather have
it monitor the drive directly so as to avoid an additional layer of
complexity.
Is anyone familiar with this issue, and maybe know how I can make it
work the way I want to? Would downgrading to WMP10 help? Is it the size
of the flash drive that makes his experience different than mine?