1kyle Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I can't surely be the only person on this board to have come up against filling up most of the available disk space with a music library. - Agreed I like Classical Music and copy whole CD's rather than tracks but even so it's quite easy even with a modest amount of music to fill up a disk pretty quickly.Is there any way to get SS to recognize a music library that can span several physical disks. Is there also any way to transfer music on a computer to an MD (using SS if necessary) without first having to import the track(s) into the library.If I could do that then I'd set up links to the music in a MySQL database --and then I could have PETABYTES of data spanning as many disks as I like.Currently I'm using several different music libraries stored on different "Virtual Machines" which I just ring up with VMWARE. This works but is a bit cumbersome.Cheers-K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pata2001 Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Is there any way to get SS to recognize a music library that can span several physical disks. Is there also any way to transfer music on a computer to an MD (using SS if necessary) without first having to import the track(s) into the library.Probably not. The only way to transfer tracks to MD without SS is via simpleburner, but it has to be from an audioCD. You can setup a RAID system with multiple hard-drives, and as long as they're assigned 1 drive letter, SS can probably use them (the spanning is handled by the OS, not SS). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted January 10, 2007 Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 Probably not. The only way to transfer tracks to MD without SS is via simpleburner, but it has to be from an audioCD. You can setup a RAID system with multiple hard-drives, and as long as they're assigned 1 drive letter, SS can probably use them (the spanning is handled by the OS, not SS).I think it's pretty much as Pata says unless you could use Windows DFS (Distributed File System) on Windows Server to assign a single share path to locations on multiple (physical or virtual) servers and then map that share to a network drive letter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1kyle Posted February 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 I've asked this a few times but never got a single answer --however it's been some time so I thought I'll have another go - especially now a lot of you will have much larger music collections now.Is there any way of spanning the Music Library over more than one Volume.If say I'm using Atrac lossless at 352 kbs then on average I'm probably compressing a typical CD down to around 200 MP. So I'd get 5 CD's approx per 1 GB. (256 kbs gives around 7 CD's per 1GB but I prefer storing the music in a lossless format).So a 250 GB disk would hold around 1250 CD's. Now this might seem large but it's not an impossibly large number if you've been buying CD's for over 20 years.What I'd love to know is there any way of splitting this data base over several different volumes or disks.Currently what I do at the moment is have 2 or 3 different Windows VM (Virtual Machines) each one having their own music library. A bit messy but it works.It would be nice if the music DB could span several disks.I can't believe I'm the only one who'se run into this limitation.Cheers-K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted February 17, 2007 Report Share Posted February 17, 2007 * Merged with original topic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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