Our home pc has 4 user areas. If my husband makes his music library
accessible to all 4 of us, does that use up more memory than if he just puts
his library into one shared folder?

On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:48:01 -0700, LikkleJo
<LikkleJo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Our home pc has 4 user areas. If my husband makes his music library
>accessible to all 4 of us, does that use up more memory than if he just puts
>his library into one shared folder?

Sure, it uses a little more RAM memory on the PC, but it's unrelated
to where the library is stored.

If you mean he has 4 copies of the library, then media player carries
1 copy of each meda file, but a library database file for each user.

The library database is usuallly no more than 1 GB (gigabyte) so
unless your husbands disk is desperately small (eg 40-60GB) you should
have no problem storing that data.

As a typical scenario, a 1GB database may correspond to the data to
keep track of around 200,000 music tracks. If you *have* that many
music tracks (about 1000GB of data), the odd 1GB library database is
small change, really ;-)

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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