I cant see anything that says >Media Network...
Ignore that. I had disabled that via the General> Features section. That might be why I could not see it.
Well, that would do it.
If you ever run any two of your computers, this would be a problem. It may prevent JRemote from connecting, or may just result in unexpected behaviour.
Anyway, if you just can't get a remote to connect to your PCs, and you have just copied your Library to each PC, you need to get new JRiver Access Keys for each non-original PC. Otherwise the remote will see multiple PCs with the same Access Key, which will mean connection fails. You could just use the IP Addresses of the PCs instead of the Access Key method, but it still wouldn't be a good idea to have multiple copies of MC running on multiple PCs with the same Access Key on them all.
Best practice to use your current solution would be to:
1. Change the drive naming on your Windows 7 PC and Window 10 laptop so that they use the same drive letter. i.e. Change them both to M: (for music
), and on the PC do a Find & Repalce to point to the new M: drive. Then future copying of the library from the Windows 7 PC to the laptop wouldn't require any Find & Replace to point to the correct location. Google will tell you how to change drive letter designations.
2. Then set up Portable Library rules in the Windows 7 PC (source) Library so that when you copy from the PC to the Macbook you also do not need to do any Find & Replace. This functionality was added in MC25.0.100 on Windows.
25.0.100 (9/13/2019)
1. NEW: Added a dialog "Portable Library" to allow setting up the filename conversions needed between Windows, Mac, and Linux.
25.0.101 (9/16/2019)
1. NEW: Added a dialog "Portable Library" to allow setting up the filename conversions needed between Windows, Mac, and Linux.
See
NEW: Portable LibraryYou will still potentially need to deal with the Access Key issue, but if you don't Restore settings from the Windows 7 PC to the laptop and Macbook, then maybe they would keep their own Access Key when you Restore the Library. I'm not sure. Don't have the hardware to test that for a Mac these days. Of course, if you don't Restore settings you may need to do some updates/tweaking on the target computer. But you probably shouldn't Restore settings from a Windows PC to a Mac PC anyway...
NOTE: You might be able to use Portable Library rules to map between the Windows 7 PC drive A: and the Windows 10 laptop drive L:, rather than changing the drive letter designations. I'm not sure. But it would be easier and more logical to use a common drive letter designation between the two, I think.