2 identical databases on external harddrive and NAS

[iThunfisch]

Hello,

the following scenario:
I want to use Winamp at home (database & music is on a NAS) and traveling / on vacation (database & music on a USB external hard drive).
NAS and USB hard drive to be held at the same level. 1:1 copy of music files can I achieve using other software.

Important to me is that all of the playlists work with both drives and I have no duplicate entries of music files (one from the USB, one from the NAS) in Winamp

Isthere any chance?

Thank you,
the iThunfisch

[DJ Egg]

Hi

You can edit paths.ini in the %ProgramFiles%\Winamp folder to point to the location of the database & settings dir.

The default setting is:

inidir={26}\Winamp

which is: %appdata%\winamp

so when travelling, you can change it to X:\Path\To\WinampSettingsDir

However, you would then need to rescan the ML to remove the NAS database and add the USB database.

Another (and probably better) solution would be to just create a new/separate shortcut icon to open Winamp with the USB database loaded instead of the (default) NAS database.

Right-click in the folder containing winamp.exe on the USB drive, select: New > Shortcut

The command line should be something like:

winamp.exe /INIDIR="Path\To\WinampSettingsDir"

(if the shortcut isn't made in the same dir as winamp.exe then you would also need to include the full path to winamp.exe & inside quotes)