External Hard Drive Question

[Soulstation1]

Can i somehow transfer ripped music from the windows media player to an EHD?

Edited October 9, 2006 by Soulstation1

[jazzbo]

I'm sure that you can, though I don't use Windows Media Player and couldn't tell you how.

I have all my downloaded files on an external hard drive, all my iTunes is directed there, I just had to consolidate my library and create a file on the hard drive, then delete the file on my laptop.

[king ubu]

Windows Media Player will rip the files to a specific folder, find out what folder that is, open Explorer, drag the files from that folder onto the folder of your external drive (or any folder therein, where you may want to have it).

[Kevin Bresnahan]

Mount the external hardrive and then it's a simple "Copy & Paste" operation.

I prefer to use Windows Explorer for this. To open Windows Explorer, simply put your mouse over the "Start" button on the taskbar, click the right mouse button, and select "Explore". Unce "My Computer", you should see your C: drive (where the files currently reside) as well as the external drive, which could be mounted as D:, E:, F:, etc. - depending on how many other drives are in your system. With Windows Explorer, "Copy & Paste" is "Drag & Drop", which I find much easier.

BTW, if these .wma files are protected with DRM, they won't work on another machine unless you re-acquire the licenses. If you copy them over to an external hardrive and try to open them on another machine, it has to be mounted on the Internet to acquire those licenses.

I refuse to use .wma for just this reason. .mp3 is fine with me.

Kevin