If I transfer my music to an external hard drive, can I use windows media player without transferring back..?

Question

I DJ using windows media player , can I still if I transfer my music to a external hard drive?

Answer 1

As long as Windows can see the files, you can run them in Windows Media Player. It doesn't matter if they're on a USB drive, or even another computer connected by a network. You don't need to copy the files back to play them. The only issue is that you may run into some latency by using an external hard drive (i.e. slower), but that completely depends on what you mean by "external drive". With most new technology, the speeds are more than fast enough to serve up music files. USB 2.0 or firewire are probably the best methods (USB 1.0 may be a bit slow).

Answer 2

Theoretically, a hard drive is a hard drive. When you are in Windows Media Player, just make sure it is looking at your external drive (which will be drive e: or f: or some higher letter like that) instead of your primary hard drive (which is drive c:)

Answer 3

Yes you can , but it will be slower , most External HDD's use USB 2.0, which is way slower than the speed you get from an internal drive.

I suggest you use an E(xternal)-sata connection and a drive that can use that connection. That will speed things up.

You don't want to feel the lower speed when you are switching between songs!

Answer 4

Yes, but you may have to reimport the songs into windows media player.

Answer 5

yes definetly u can use you windows media player to play your music from your extternal hard druive when you connect it .but you will have to rebuild your playlist and library

Answer 6

yes u can

Answer 7

1 way to find out is to TRY IT

Answer 8

Yes, you can.