Hello,

I have a 3 computers lan at home, and have shared my mp3 folder.
Every time I add a new album in my folder, I add it to a playlist, so it figures in 'album list'.
Unfortunaltly, I have to do this on every computer to update the database.

I would like to share my databse too. So foobar is in the same configuration on every machine in the network.

I don't find where I can change the database path (I would like to put a network path).
I tried to move database.foo in anather folder and rename the shortcut to it in the foobar folder, but it doesn't work enough.

Is there here someone who have a idea to solve my problem ??

Thanks a lot, and have good music !!

Pskl

If you're on Windows 2000 or XP you can create a symbolic link to the database.foo file in each of your computer's foobar folder, and have the symbolic link point to the file on the shared folder. A symbolic link is like a shortcut, but "better". I guess that's how I can explain it.

- Mig

p.s.: There are free tools out there to create symbolic links on Windows 2k/XP, try doing a google search for them.

Edit: This site is a good head start for you http://bluedragon.blog-city.com/read/365368.htm

That site is gone, not cached on Google.

Meanwhile, here is a link to a free utility for creating Hardlinks:

HardlinkShellEx

So far, I cannot get it to work (for placing database.foo on a network drive).

Of course what I'd prefer is an option for where the database.foo is loaded from.

Or even better, put the path for database.foo into the cfg file, and store the cfg in XML or INI format so we can easily edit it.

Actually no you cannot. Sym link targets must reside on the target machine according to MS. Of course, if you've got a work around, I'd like to hear it. I've wanted to do this for some time. Unfortunately NTFS will stop you if you try and reach out over SMB.

That's not a surprise, if you've read the section about limitations on that page: