Moving my music files

[kenles]

Hi, can you help.

I have about 100 GB of MP3 music files on my hard drive in ....My Documents/My Music. I want to move these files to a secondary hard drive or a new computer. Is there any way I can get dBpoweramp to recognise the new path/location without losing all the information stored in the *.mcc file?

Ken

[Spoon]

Re: Moving my music files

Move them then do a rescan for lost files (I think it is called).

[donny]

Re: Moving my music files

There could be a problem if there are files with same names (the path is not checked at all). For instance once I tried this and it conected all the versions of "Queen - We Will Rock You" to the same file. All the files had same names, just were in different folders (albums).

There is another option, which is maybe a bit trickier, and maybe not very nice, since you will probably have long paths on the new drive.
The idea is as follows. On you old hard the files were (I presume) "C:\documents...", now if you put them on the D: drive (for instance) you can open the mcc file with a hex editor (for instance XVI32 is simple and free), and search and replace thru the whole file "c:\documents" into "d:\documents" then your collection would remain as it was.
The only problem (except maybe a bit of work) is that on the new drive you music would have to be in the complet path as it was on the c drive.
DO NOT try to search and replace with strings of different length, it will destroy all the data in the mcc file and make it unreadable to dbpoweramp.

Hope it helps, ask if I didn't explain right.