I have recently upgraded a HP Notebook to Win8 and all seems to have gone successfully, however, I now have an issue with the way the the Metro Music App appears to work.
All of my Music (around 50GB of MP3s) is stored on a Mapped (Y:/) NAS Drive. (This NAS has multiple shares, all individually mapped but I don't think that that is relevant.)
The Network address is \\{NASNAME}\Public\Shared Music (with a space between "Shared" and "Music")
The Mapped Drive Address is Y:\Public\Shared Music
I understand that the Music App will only recognize AND store music that is stored locally on the W8 Machine.
I know that:
It is possible to search and play individual files from within the Music App. This is no way to go on as I do not wish to be searching everytime that I wish to play a track.
I could INDEX the folder. But I do not want the entire folder copying to the local HDD. It's on a NAS for a reason!
I have tried the mklink /d from the command prompt. Following the directions from Windows Help more or less to the letter.
I entered it correctly including the "" marks around address with SPACES. The command seems to have worked and the relevant folders seem to be linked. However, the Music App still does not FIND any of the Music Files automatically.
Inspection of the LINKED folder at C:\share\music does not appear to show the correct shortcut address. I would expect that the shortcut would be one of the two addresses above. However, it is C:\share\\{NASNAME}\public\shared music. Surely this is not correct?
Have failed to find any other items or advice on how to achieve what I desire, or whether it is actually possible with Win 8 as it currently exists.
Any as to how to proceed, much appreciated.
