SC7 includes a browse facility for picking the source of your music files and playlists. You can pick music on local drives and also mapped network drives. If your music and playlists are on a mapped drive SlimServer will list two instances of any music included in your playlis, whether your playlist.
It looks like the only way you can stop this happening is to select UNC paths to your music and playlists. Us old timers know about SlimServers requirement for UNC paths. New users won't and the new screen for picking the path to your music makes it very easy to pick networked drives, thus screwing up your library. BTW. I point SlimServer Music Folder setting at shortcuts as my music is spread over three drives. I've tried changing paths in my shortcuts between mapped drive letters and UNC paths, as I've also tried changing paths in my playlists. Neither approaches cured the problem above. And another thing..... I also think that having to use shortcuts to point to multiple music locations is a bad thing (and that newer, less computer literate users will not even realise what shortcuts are), and that the software will cause users less problems if they are able to select multiple locations for their music (using UNC paths automatically, of course... unless SlimServer can be made to use mapped drives properly... which would be the best option). Another addendum. Network drives only seem to appear in my Slimserver Music and Playlist Browse/Select window if I've already visited them via Windows Explorer - how wierd is that? MC -- ModelCitizen It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. Transporter > Bryston 4B ST > PMC OB1s SB3 > NAIM NAC 102 > NAIM NAP 180 > Shahinian Arcs http://www.last.fm/user/ModelCitizen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ModelCitizen's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=446 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40812 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
