Running Renoise From USB stick

General Discussion
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why couldn’t you just say you were running it off a USB stick.

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Wouldn’t it be possible to start Renoise via a small shell script that copied the config files from the “c:” location to the nano when renoise exits, and when the shell script starts it copies the config files from the nano to the “c:” location (if any configfiles exists on the nano that is, might be first start)

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Portable Renoise! Yeah!

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Why couldn’t you just post something constructive. An ipod nano is not a USB stick. I know you are trying to be cocky, so whatever.

That would be good. It would be a lot easier if the whole thing was self contained though. I am not sure why Renoise copies the config stuff to c:documents and settings. I guess it makes it easier when installing updates; Renoise can use the previous versions config, thus not annoying users. Would make it portable if it was in the Renoise directory though…

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I guess the main reason having it in document and settings is to let different users have different configurations, might also be a permission thing, a “user” in vista aren’t allowed to write/change stuff in program’s folder if i remember it correctly

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Yeah totally.

I just want the chance to have it all self contained so I can run it off my ipod!

:)

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Your topic title is somewhat misleading… it kinda implies you’re running it on your nano… portably… without a computer

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It is not misleading.

“Running Renoise from an ipod nano”

Nothing misleading about that.

If I had said “Running Renoise on an ipod nano”, that would be misleading.

Not meaning to be rude, but this forum does suffer considerably from broken English syndrome.

Anyway, back on topic… can anyone suggest a way I can get this to work?

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The solution you want seem to be available only by Taktik

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You can write simple BAT file that copies out the config and copies it back later. Shouldn’t be that hard

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copy .\renoise_settings* "%HOMEPATH%/application data/renoise/v2.00/"  
".\renoise 2.0.0\renoise.exe"  
copy  
del "%HOMEPATH%/application data/renoise/v2.00/*"

May need tweaking based on your config, also this isn’t tested, but it should work, as long as you run the script off the root of your flash drive. [e.g, e:/]

[edit]Also, hello everyone. First post here.

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Damn, why didn’t I think of this before? Running Renoise straight outta a usb stick, that’s awesome!

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Cool mate! Erm… how would actually go about getting this to work. I know next to nothing about coding…

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copy .\renoise_settings* "%HOMEPATH%/application data/renoise/v2.00/"  
".\renoise 2.0.0\renoise.exe"  
copy "%HOMEPATH%/application data/renoise/v2.00/*" .\renoise_settings\  
del "%HOMEPATH%/application data/renoise/v2.00/*"

Whoops, screwed a line up, typed this late at night.

Also, here’s how to use:
Copy the code into notepad.
Save the file as renoise.bat, and put it in your flashdrive’s root directory [i.e, put it in E:\ or F:\ or etc.].
Make sure that renoise is in .\renoise 2.0.0\
Run renoise.bat

It should start Renoise, and you should be able to keep your settings on the flash drive.

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Thanks a lot!

So, do I need to run Renoise.bat everytime I want to run renoise, or do I only run it once?

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everytime seems to me.

mlon

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Gold!!! Gonna test this as soon as possible!
Do you know if this would also work for Mac?

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So, let me get this straight…

The code does the following;

  1. Copies the prefs from the C: drive on my computer onto my ipod

  2. I run the Renoise.bat from my ipod and it will copy the settings from my ipod onto the computer I plug into

  3. Runs renoise from my ipod

  4. Deletes the prefs from the C drive of the computer I plug into when I am done using Renoise…

?

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Ok, here’s the steps the code does:

1: Copies any settings on your iPod to the HDD.
2: Runs Renoise.
3: Copies the settings back from the HDD to the iPod, just incase you changed anything
4: Deletes the settings off the HDD.

Also, you may need to change the word copy to xcopy. I’m not sure, haven’t tested it yet.

PS:
No, it won’t work on OSX/Linux. Well, the concept will, just not this script.

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OK, well the problem I can see with this immediately, is that setting are not stored in the Renoise folder, they are stored in c:Documents and settings/user/

So, there would be nothing to copy from the ipod / USB stick in the first place