Another option is to harness virtualisation, and split out the roles- have a DC as a VM, and some other OS (Windows or otherwise) as a jukebox, backup server, or whatever. That way upgrading one thing doesn’t have unintended consequences with unrelated components
Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, 25 March 2011 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OT} Rated songs lost as well Kind of off topic, and I know it won't suit everyone and this sort of thing can spark religious wars (some people hold media players very close to their hearts and/or could not possibly countenance corrupting pure objective ID3 tag data with subjective ratings), but this is exactly why I only rate my songs using Media Monkey after configuring it to store the ratings in the MP3 meta data. While there are most likely better players I don't believe there is any software around that allows you to manage your MP3 and their internal meta-data like Media Monkey, and it's free. Cheers, Ben ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Friday, 25 March 2011 1:07 PM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: RE: [OT} Rated songs lost as well Hi Ken, I wasn’t very clear, but strangely enough, my old Win2003 DC was my “jukebox”, not a client machine. It did nothing all day, so I used the vast spare disc space and idle CPU time for something useful: calming my ragged nerves with soothing music. I even looked inside the 140MB WMDB file to see if it was some recognisable or tolerably simple format that I could knock up some code to read, but it’s really messy. I can’t see an easy way of reconstructing the original lists with their ratings. Does anyone know what sort of DB format it is that holds the music player lists? I have a Word document with a reminder list of all the things I need to save and do when upgrading machines, but saving my music lists and ratings was missing. I won’t forget again will I? Cheers, Greg This email is intended for the named recipient only. The information it contains may be confidential or commercially sensitive. If you are not the intended recipient you must not reproduce or distribute any part of this email, disclose its contents to any other party, or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the message from your computer.
