Hi, First of all, thank you very much for getting back to me so quickly. I appreciate your stick-to-itiveness.
I am running version 2233. I even loaded the codec pack found here:
https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewt ... 86639&sd=d.
I submitted the error each time. I tried to attach a screenshot, but this forum doesn't make it obvious how to do that. When I tried inserting an image this was all I got:
No menu came up attach a file or anything.
Perhaps I'm being thick and that once posted an option will appear to attach a file if I've put in a
reference in my text. I'll try it with this message. If it does work I'll attach the various messages I got after the error.
[/img][/img]In the end, when I get to the message that says Restart, restart in safe mode etc. The programme ends up freezing no matter what I click and then I just have to do Alt+Ctrl+Delete to call up the trask manager and shut it down.
After the various failures yesterday, I decided to revert to linking my MM databse to files on an external HDD containing all my music files. So I linked my Dropbox to that location (using selective sync to have only the music folder sync). Just to clarify, up to that point my Dropbox was NOT synced to this external HDD or to the laptop I'm using to run it. I was hoping to avoid having to sync it at all, which is why I was hoping to have MM5 simply read the files from my Dropbox location online. But as this seems to be out of reach for now, I decided to revert to a local source.
So when I launched MM5 after syncing my music folder on Dropbox to the external HDD, MM5 did something it had not done up to now: it synced Dropbox. I saw this because, up to that point (i.e. when I had no local music files), the label I saw under Devices & Services>Dropbox was "Never synced". This time it synced right away and automatically, without my even having to point MM5 to where Dropbox was (on the external HDD).
Thanks for the help. Just to reiterate, my goal is NOT to link MM5 to a local Dropbox folder, but rather to link it to music files stored Online in my Dropbox. I'm so surprised that a long-standing, reputable, well-developed media player like MM has not made it faaar easier for people to do this. In this day and age it seems obvious that millions would want to read their music off Dropbox online (which lucky for you guys has decided not to come up with its own media player) rather than off a local folder.
My dream would be to have MM installed on my PC and on my Samsung Android system on smart phone and be able to modify playlists on either location and have the result sync to both devices. I would particularly like to be able to order a deletion of music files from the online Dropbox source from either device, because I sometimes decide to ditch songs for good, but doing so is tedious if you have to each time go into Dropbox and track down the song, rather than just deleting it off the MM app, whether on PC or on smart phone.
Thanks for the help. I look forward to hearing back from you on all this.
Cheers
Hi, First of all, thank you very much for getting back to me so quickly. I appreciate your stick-to-itiveness.
I am running version 2233. I even loaded the codec pack found here: [url]https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=86639&sd=d[/url].
I submitted the error each time. I tried to attach a screenshot, but this forum doesn't make it obvious how to do that. When I tried inserting an image this was all I got: [img] [/img] No menu came up attach a file or anything.
Perhaps I'm being thick and that once posted an option will appear to attach a file if I've put in a [img] [/img] reference in my text. I'll try it with this message. If it does work I'll attach the various messages I got after the error. [img][img][img][/img][/img][/img]In the end, when I get to the message that says Restart, restart in safe mode etc. The programme ends up freezing no matter what I click and then I just have to do Alt+Ctrl+Delete to call up the trask manager and shut it down.
After the various failures yesterday, I decided to revert to linking my MM databse to files on an external HDD containing all my music files. So I linked my Dropbox to that location (using selective sync to have only the music folder sync). Just to clarify, up to that point my Dropbox was NOT synced to this external HDD or to the laptop I'm using to run it. I was hoping to avoid having to sync it at all, which is why I was hoping to have MM5 simply read the files from my Dropbox location online. But as this seems to be out of reach for now, I decided to revert to a local source.
So when I launched MM5 after syncing my music folder on Dropbox to the external HDD, MM5 did something it had not done up to now: it synced Dropbox. I saw this because, up to that point (i.e. when I had no local music files), the label I saw under Devices & Services>Dropbox was "Never synced". This time it synced right away and automatically, without my even having to point MM5 to where Dropbox was (on the external HDD).
Thanks for the help. Just to reiterate, my goal is NOT to link MM5 to a local Dropbox folder, but rather to link it to music files stored Online in my Dropbox. I'm so surprised that a long-standing, reputable, well-developed media player like MM has not made it faaar easier for people to do this. In this day and age it seems obvious that millions would want to read their music off Dropbox online (which lucky for you guys has decided not to come up with its own media player) rather than off a local folder.
My dream would be to have MM installed on my PC and on my Samsung Android system on smart phone and be able to modify playlists on either location and have the result sync to both devices. I would particularly like to be able to order a deletion of music files from the online Dropbox source from either device, because I sometimes decide to ditch songs for good, but doing so is tedious if you have to each time go into Dropbox and track down the song, rather than just deleting it off the MM app, whether on PC or on smart phone.
Thanks for the help. I look forward to hearing back from you on all this.
Cheers