Audio Library Grown Beyond Single Disk

groundnull · Post by **groundnull** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:14 pm

My music library is much too big to fit on a single disk. I've looked at MediaMonkey and Foobar200, but can't figure out if their database holding toonz can span multiple disks.

Anyone know of a music player/library/organizer that allows the database containing all the toonz to grow beyond a single disk?

Thanks

klankymen · Post by **klankymen** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:09 am

i think every player can do that.... my library back in the days on winamp (the one program i miss since switching to linux) spanned both 2 remote drives and 1 local drive.

nemo · Post by **nemo** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:54 am

You might have to dive into something as exotic as Windows Media Player to get such highly sophisticated features.

Devonavar · Post by **Devonavar** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:56 am

Are you saying your database is too big to fit on a single drive, or your collection is too big?

Any modern music player can contain files from different drives in their database. If the actual database is too large (if this is the case, how on earth did you manage to accumulate 40+ GB of metadata?), all I can suggest is using RAID to merge two or more drives into a single partition.

ninethirty · Post by **ninethirty** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:34 pm

foobar2000 can definitely do it. I have mine split over 3 disks; Foobar's "Media Library" setup just wants a list of directories to scan for music. The directories can be on local or remote disks; it doesn't care.

sas · Post by **sas** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:35 pm

I use J River Media Center -- currently v11 (and beta testing v12).
It can scan any number of discs -- I have 3 external drives -- a 400GB and 2x 120gb, full of losslessly encoded audio. (Flac/Ape, and some lossy MP3, MPC..)
I've been using it for several years -- about the only piece of software I don't resent paying for.