Making Silverjuke 100% "stand-alone"

[Moorthy]

I have Silverjuke installed on an external drive so that I can take it to parties and such.

Mysettings.ini and mymusic.db are configured properly.

In Settings / Advanced / Further Options / Search Paths , I can not eliminate C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Silverjuke as an option.

Is there a way to do this?

[Service-Team]

Moorthy wrote:
> [...] In Settings / Advanced / Further Options / Search
> Paths , I can not eliminate C:\Documents and
> Settings\Username\Application Data\Silverjuke as
> an option [...]

No, but this is not really needed - if the folder does not exist on the system, this does not hurt.

Best regards,
Your Silverjuke Team

[Moorthy]

Service-Team wrote:
> No, but this is not really needed - if the folder
> does not exist on the system, this does not
> hurt.


Okay, with Silverjuke on my external hard drive, everthing seems to be okay moving it from machine to machine - EXCEPT if the drive letter changes.

In that case, Silverjuke no longer knows where to find the album covers.

The only solution in that case, is to remap the external drive to the same letter (G:) that it was originally created on.

[admi-ral]

try this one
viewtopic.php?t=766
from the german forum-part it automatically maps always the same drive-letter to your mobile harddisk

[larsj]

Hi,

I just downloaded Silverjuke yesterday and is very impressed by the quality of sound and the ease of use. Apart from one thing: I want to use Silverjuke as standalone on a removable drive, but can't figure out how to properly configure it.

How should I do, so that all the settings and database can be on the removable drive? I've found the .db-file in my application data-folder on the computer and moved it to the removable drive but Silverjuke doesn't find it. How to configure? In plain english please - I'm not a very talented hacker.

Thanks for your help. And thanks for an excellent piece of software, which I shall by a licence for as soon as I learn how to use it as standalone.

[Guest]

larsj,
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!