can't get at my music on server from wireless laptop

[minofifa]

hi
i have win xp running on both machines. i can acess all of my stuff on the server from my laptop EXCEPT for my mp3's in the mp4 folder on my server. i have it mapped as a network drive on my laptop ( as i do with all my other shared directories). I'm thinkning that it has so many files in it that it is causing trouble. what can i do to listen to my music?

when i try to open the mp3 folder over the network, the laptop just hangs and i have to close the window.

 

[unmerited]

You could try and check if it is a problem of too many files by moving/copying a couple to another folder and see if you can access them then.


unmerited

 

[minofifa]

yup that is exactly the problem...
this must be a common thing though no? don't lots of people have their mp3 library on a server? it seems silly that i can go all the way through a broadband connection via orb to get at my music remtotely, but i can't use my home network to do it....

 

[minofifa]

nevermind, it finally worked after i let it sit for a minute. i'm still getting used to the slowness of a wireless home network... boo-erns...

 

[unmerited]

I know it might be a hassle but you could create sub directories and split up your mp3's to enable faster access.


unmerited

 

[Goosemaster]

itunes and other progs work really well for this sort of thing because the library directory is already defined as a file, so that is all that has to be read, instead of having windows give you a full directory listing.

basically, wireless music streaming is pretty snappy using it