Recovering Usable Playlists in MM5

[tommyfs]

Found a need to move MediaMonkey to a newer, faster laptop, and chose “PCmover” to do the transfer, since I had good luck with it on most program files. However, it did nor work so well on the contents of mm.db Appears that since the database doesn’t contain regular distinct uncoded files, capturing playlists intact is futile. Using MM5 exporting file list can produce a list of csv files, but it appears that the m3u format is what I need (I think). Looking thru the MM5 forum, most articles on this subject are extremely lengthy (tedious), and don’t show any easy way to “reverse engineer” an exported csv file back to its native .m3u format.

Since I’m dealing with nearly 100 playlists, each containing 20 – 50 entries, I’m trying to avoid having to recreate the playlists on the new Laptop directly. Hopefully one of our members can direct me to a link, or work-around, sparing me from the impending anxiety I fear mounting

Any help or ideas will be sincerely appreciated.

[Lowlander]

Please see the migration guide. I recommend it over exporting Playlists.