Upgrading to MM3 hosed my installs?!
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 8:08 am
OK, so I thought I'd take the plunge and upgrade to MM3 since I had to install it on a new computer anyway.
Up until this point I had MM installed on two separate computers (home/office) but all the music and the database on an external USB hard drive. I had moved the My Music folder to the external drive for both computers so MM found the database regardless.
This time I thought I'd be clever and install the program on the external drive as well. I installed MM3 in my PortableApps folder and started it, it converted my database and loaded it just fine. However, there were two problems:
1. As mentioned, the database was fine and I when I double clicked on a song in it, it loaded but did not play. It just stood at zero minutes zero seconds. Scrubbing forward did nothing.
2. I wasn't sure where the database would be located because I installed it on an external drive. It was not in the program folder on that drive, and it was not in the new default location (no MediaMonkey folder in the Application Data folder for my user).
Because of 2., I tried installing MM3 in the standard Program Files directory of my new computer, thinking the database would show up in the Application Data folder then.
But nothing happened - no difference in running MM3 Local and MM3 Portable.
Coming home, I fired up the portable MM3, which asked to convert my database again. I let it do it and it worked fine. Well, as it worked as well as in the office. I can do anything in the program except actually play music, it seems.
I shut down portable MM3 and started my old MM2 installation at home, but this will not play any music either.
So no difference in running MM2.5 Local and MM3 Portable.
Yikes! Will I have to switch media player? And I got a life time license too...
Up until this point I had MM installed on two separate computers (home/office) but all the music and the database on an external USB hard drive. I had moved the My Music folder to the external drive for both computers so MM found the database regardless.
This time I thought I'd be clever and install the program on the external drive as well. I installed MM3 in my PortableApps folder and started it, it converted my database and loaded it just fine. However, there were two problems:
1. As mentioned, the database was fine and I when I double clicked on a song in it, it loaded but did not play. It just stood at zero minutes zero seconds. Scrubbing forward did nothing.
2. I wasn't sure where the database would be located because I installed it on an external drive. It was not in the program folder on that drive, and it was not in the new default location (no MediaMonkey folder in the Application Data folder for my user).
Because of 2., I tried installing MM3 in the standard Program Files directory of my new computer, thinking the database would show up in the Application Data folder then.
But nothing happened - no difference in running MM3 Local and MM3 Portable.
Coming home, I fired up the portable MM3, which asked to convert my database again. I let it do it and it worked fine. Well, as it worked as well as in the office. I can do anything in the program except actually play music, it seems.
I shut down portable MM3 and started my old MM2 installation at home, but this will not play any music either.
So no difference in running MM2.5 Local and MM3 Portable.
Yikes! Will I have to switch media player? And I got a life time license too...