Multiple Hard Drives Using Foobar 2000 music player

2016-02-11 12:29:43

FOOBAR 2000. Hi and maybe someone can answer me this question. I am using one 2 TB hard drive in my computer that is solely dedicated to music and photos. My player of choice is Foobar 2000. Trouble is that my music/photo drive is almost full, with less than 200gb of storage space left . My question. Is it possible to use more than one hard drive with Foobar2000? Say for instance my present music drive is F:/ and I install a new drive say G:/ Will Foobar  be able to recognize and play from both drives? Even in a shuffle tracks mode? I would rather not install a bigger 3 or 4 TB hard drive. And yes I do back up and have a separate 2TB drive in a fireproof safe. And if anything I would rather just install a new 1TB drive as my 2nd music/photo drive... And buy a 2nd 1TB drive for my latest back up drive. Thanks if anyone could answer me this question.   

Re: Multiple Hard Drives Using Foobar 2000 music player

Reply #1 – 2016-02-11 12:31:34

You can have multiple different drives and/or folders in your Foobar Music Library:

http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Preferences:Media_Library

Re: Multiple Hard Drives Using Foobar 2000 music player

Reply #2 – 2016-02-11 13:33:34

Thanks so much for your quick reply... Saves me the worry of putting in a new bigger drive and messing everything up... So I take it I will just put in the new drive and add it to my library... And then Foobar will pick up my main F:/ drive as well as the new (say) G:/ drive... and a 2 new 1TB drives are certainly cheaper than a 3 or 4TB drive plus another 1TB back up... Plus now less worry about loosing one big drive... Though again I always back up... Thanks again and I will try this soon. Michael. 

Re: Multiple Hard Drives Using Foobar 2000 music player

Reply #3 – 2016-02-11 17:51:51

Even if your software somehow only supported one drive, windows will let you mount one drive inside a folder on another drive, so you could have both drives be in F:\.

Re: Multiple Hard Drives Using Foobar 2000 music player

Reply #4 – 2016-02-11 18:21:26

Thanks so much for this info.