Can I play music from an extrernal hard drive without copying it to my laptop?

Question

I want to transfer all my music to an external hard drive to free up some space on my laptop? Is there anyway I can play music from the external hard drive without adding it back to the laptop hard drive or mess about creating playlists all the time?! I also prefer to use Windows Media Player if possible.

Sounds amateurish I know but all answers will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Craig.

Answer 1

Yes as they all answered !



but you can also install and run "portable software" on your portable hard drive or USB stick so that your player always goes with you songs !



see list of portable media players on http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video but personally I use Spider Player portable http://spider-player.com/



Portable software are so complied so that they are not machine Dependant and need to know where they are installed... they just run !



Enjoy

Answer 2

All my music (58gb) is on a remote, portable. USB powered hard drive. When I attach it to my computer it will play either on Windows Media Player or on Real Player depending on the file type of the music.



The hard drives (remote) that I have are Western Digital and are excellent.

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http://www.maplin.co.uk/Family.aspx?Menu=1664&worldid=-3

Answer 3

Yes, I have all my music on an external hard drive, and play it from there.

Answer 4

Of course.... As long as you make sure the External hard drive is connected with your laptop with a USB, I'm quite sure there wouldn't be any reason why you couldn't proceed with this. :)



Hope that helps!!! :D

Answer 5

Sure you can, just plug it into the computer and it's like having a USB memory stick in, just load it from My Computer and it will play from WMP if it's your default music player!

Answer 6

Yes, it's no problem, just move it over, then tell WMP to search for music. It'll find it, and BAM there you go.

Answer 7

Yes, of course.