Running out of space on my C drive...
I just got my 20 gig i-pod a couple days ago and it's working great. In fact, I've already put about 1400 songs in it. M
y problem: The MusicMatch software resides on my C-drive, which is quickly running out of discspace. Is there anyway to designate that MusicMatch save the mp3s in a folder on my D drive (which has about 60 gig of free space) and keep the MusicMatch software on my C drive? Would I have to reinstall MusicMatch on my D drive (and is this even possible)? Is there another solution? Help! I have about300 meg left on my C drive and about 250 CDs to go!
# 1 Re: Running out of space on my C drive...
Yes you can do this. Just move your music to your D: drive and when you go to load songs, you can pick the folder where you get the songs from.
# 2 Re: Running out of space on my C drive...
Will it prompt me for a drive when I click on the MusicMatch autosync feature or will I now have to add the songs to my i-pod manual (not using the sync feature)?
# 3 Re: Running out of space on my C drive...
It might ask you for a drive. I've never used the sync. But then again it might automatically do it since MM will already know the path. Try it out and let us know.
# 4 Re: Running out of space on my C drive...
I'll try it over lunch. My history with MM is that it is automatically configured to look at the "My Music" folder in the "documents" folder on the C drive. If I started storing my music library on my D drive, I assume I'd have to be able to point the sync tool to this new D drive folder -- hopefully there's a way to do this in the MM options set up, though I haven't been able to find it.
# 5 Re: Running out of space on my C drive...
All right, so here's what I tried over lunch.
I created a new folder on my computer's "D" drive called "mymusic". I went into MusicMatch, selected an option from the drop-down menu called WatchFolder (or maybe it's FolderWatch, I don't remember) and added the D:/mymusic folder to the list of folders to scan for new music. I then ripped a new album using MusicMatch, copied the album over to my D:/mymusic folder, deleted it from my C drive, synced, and the album made it onto my i-pod. That said, tonight I'll move all my C-drive artist folders over to my D:/mymusic folder, then delete them off my C-drive. In the future, I'll rip my CDs and move the files from the C: folder to the D: folder and sync.
Now I'm curious if there's a way to make MusicMatch rip and save directly to the D:/mymusic folder so I don't have to copy and delete the files from my C: drive...
# 6 Re: Running out of space on my C drive...
Yes there is a way to do that, but it's been s long since i've used MM that I don't exactly remember.
