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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Marko on December 08, 2003, 07:49:08 am
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When Media Jukebox was first designed (5 years ago), there was not much talk about multiple users on one PC. In the latest version of Media Jukebox and Media Center, we implemented support for Power Users and multiple user accounts. Further, to move the rest on information to the "right" location will require a lot of time and resource and that's exactly what we currently don't have.
If many users, and many here is a very flexible term, express desire for MC to support User account we will do that.
Regards,
Nikolay
Let's see how much this sought after. If you would like to see this, express you're desire by voting. Note, you do not need to reply in order to add your vote.
-marko.
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*bump*
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I think that on one machine, your media files are likely to be the same and so why would you want many databases to reflect the same information? If there are media files that are shared (and I understand that there might not be), think of the havoc that can happen with renaming tags and synching the two (many) databases.
Eg: I rename a file in my DB. Your DB is stuffed. Unless MC has rights to access all the DB's which under systems like XP is impossible given the file rights.
I think that this is a pie in the sky idea with not a huge amount of merit. It's data redundancy that is prone to too many pitfalls. And I don't believe that it's a good enough answer to say "well then just don't rename your files" because some idiot, somewhere, will.
I'm sure there are other problems that I'm not aware of.
That said: I do think that the developers should look at multiple users accessing a single DB (eg: network drive etc.).
My 2c