This is what I do, install silverjuke to your computer. Create a folder on your external drive and call it "Jukebox". Copy the entire Silverjuke folder from your hard drive and also your "Music" folder into the "Jukebox" folder on your external drive. Now, open Notepad and
type:
SUBST V: %CurrentDirectory%\Jukebox
V:
Silverjuke\Silverjuke.exe --db=V:\Silverjuke\mymusic.db
SUBST V: /d
Now "Save As" silverjuke.bat to the root of the external drive using the drop down box "all files" option, otherwise it will end up as silverjuke.bat.txt.
What happens when you run the .bat file is the "Jukebox" folder gets mounted as drive "V:" focus is transferred to drive "V:" and Silverjuke fires up. You can now scan your library, go to advanced options and change the cache, etc. to drive "V:" When silverjuke is shut down, the batch file will unmount the folder and the batchfile will exit.
The great thing is that no matter what computer you plug into or what drive letter the external gets mounted as, when the batch file is ran, Silverjuke and your music are always on drive "V:". You can get fancy now and create an autorun.inf file:
[autorun]
open=Silverjuke.bat
icon=silverjuke0.ico
label=Silverjuke
to automatically start the batch file when the drive is plugged in!
Let's take this process a step farther and uninstall Silverjuke from your main computer and copy everything from the external back onto your main computer. Make a shortcut to the batch file to start Silverjuke.
What this lets you do is edit your favorites while sitting at your desk and then copy the mymusic.db to the external and everything is updated and works since Silverjuke was on drive "V:" on your desktop also.
I use "Allway sync" (free) program to transfer updated or added music to the external. This will transfer updated tag information to the external also. Once the new music is added to the external, you can copy the mymusic.db to the external and not have to update the library on the external.
Here is a quick batch file to use if you do not want to use a synchronizing program to only copy files newer than what is on the external. Substitute the proper path names for your situation:
XCOPY /s/d/y/h D:\Jukebox\Music "H:\Jukebox\Music"
pause
Hope this helps!Statistics: Posted by Guest — 17. Mar 10, 02:44
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