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Questions / Using MusicBee on 2 computers with OneDrive
« on: February 27, 2021, 12:35:10 AM »
I've been trying to use MusicBee as a replacement for GPM after it shut down and iTunes Match since I've gotten tired of iTunes on Windows, and as a music player/library manager it's so much better than those; I wish I had found it years ago. I feel like I'm almost to where I want it, but there's one small thing that's been really annoying to deal with, and I haven't found a suitable solution so far.
So, I've got all of my music on OneDrive, so it's accessible to both computers no matter where I am. I also have the playlists (.mbp) themselves stored in OneDrive, and the idea is that any changes I make to those playlists are synced between the 2 computers automatically, because they are using the same playlist files. This worked fine, until I needed to change my OneDrive path to a different drive on one of my computers due to storage space issues. Now, the drive letter is different between the two computers, and although I can export m3u playlists with relative paths, the MBP playlists store everything in absolute paths.
What's the best way to make the playlists work between both computers in this scenario? I just want to be able to use my OneDrive library through 2 different instances of MusicBee, and have any changes I make on either end sync up on both sides automatically. I don't want to have to reimport playlists every time I make a change (i.e. keeping local copies of the playlists instead of on OneDrive). I also don't want to host my music library on a network share, because the point of putting it on OneDrive is I don't necessarily have to be home and on my network to use it (one of my computers is a laptop), and also that way I can access it on my phone through third party apps as well. I also tried making a directory junction with mklink to make the paths match up, but that seems to disappear constantly and isn't reliable, probably due to the way OneDrive works with Windows. Any ideas, or is what I want just not possible right now?
So, I've got all of my music on OneDrive, so it's accessible to both computers no matter where I am. I also have the playlists (.mbp) themselves stored in OneDrive, and the idea is that any changes I make to those playlists are synced between the 2 computers automatically, because they are using the same playlist files. This worked fine, until I needed to change my OneDrive path to a different drive on one of my computers due to storage space issues. Now, the drive letter is different between the two computers, and although I can export m3u playlists with relative paths, the MBP playlists store everything in absolute paths.
What's the best way to make the playlists work between both computers in this scenario? I just want to be able to use my OneDrive library through 2 different instances of MusicBee, and have any changes I make on either end sync up on both sides automatically. I don't want to have to reimport playlists every time I make a change (i.e. keeping local copies of the playlists instead of on OneDrive). I also don't want to host my music library on a network share, because the point of putting it on OneDrive is I don't necessarily have to be home and on my network to use it (one of my computers is a laptop), and also that way I can access it on my phone through third party apps as well. I also tried making a directory junction with mklink to make the paths match up, but that seems to disappear constantly and isn't reliable, probably due to the way OneDrive works with Windows. Any ideas, or is what I want just not possible right now?