[AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music

No, the music directory was a shared directory on my computer.  I shared the
Music Directory, then mapped it to M: on all of my computers.  Thus the
"path", instead of M:\someArtist ended up being jcolby-ws\SomeArtist.  IOW,
Windows media player didn't use the mapped drive as the path but the
workstation.  No se por que.

Mary's computer has always been the player, it just used to get the music
off of my computer across the net.  Now it is getting it off her own
computer (I moved that drive to her computer).  I thought if I shared the
Music directory and mapped it to M: Media player would just work.  But
NOOOOOOoooooooo.  The music itself is no longer on jcolby-ws it's on
mcolby-ws.

Why in the world it would use the workstation name instead of the mapped
drive is beyond me but it is damned annoying!  It is remotely possible that
I told it to search using the network neighborhood path but that doesn't
seem like something I would do.  ;-)

John W. Colby
www.colbyconsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of William
Hindman
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:39 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music


JC

...simply copy your *wmbd files located in your C:\Documents and
Settings\YourUserName\Local Settings\ApplicationData\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\
folder over to the same folder under Mary's user directory.

...I'm using WXP and Media Player 9 but the same idea should work for W2K
...HTH :)

William Hindman
<http://www.freestateproject.org> - Next Year In The Free State!


----- Original Message -----
From: "John Colby" <jcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 12:02 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: Windows Media Player path to music


> In the process of making my computers quieter I moved a hard disk to my
> wife's computer (let her listen to it!)  ;-).
>
> Anyway, all it had on it was my ripped music collection which is played on
> her computer anyway since it has the speakers now.  Unfortunately the path
> to the music doesn't use MappedDrive:\Music, it uses jcolby-WS\Music.  Is
> there anyway to tell Media Player to change where it is looking for these
> things short of a new scan?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
>
>
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