replaced music library drive, now static playlists no longer work

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freedomfries323
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replaced music library drive, now static playlists no longer work

Post by freedomfries323 »

I had to replace the drive that my music library was sitting on. I upgraded to a new SSD, set the letter and label to be the same as the old HDD, and transferred the music folders back on to the new drive.

I assumed that this would be enough for MM to happily find my music using the same old paths, but tracks were just greyed out and skipped over when played.

So I cleaned up the media library in MM by removing the 'old' entries pertaining to the old drive and rescanning the music folder on the NEW drive from file monitor.

This of course picked up everything, which took a while because I also had to analyze levels on track again. Fine, but now, none of my STATIC playlists work. They show as blank, even the playlists that are in the "imported" folder (automatically imported when album folders are scanned and a playlist file is found inside) show blank.

How can I fix these playlists? I thought playlist files only used file paths. I expected them to work since my new drive has the same letter as the old one, and the music folder hierarchy hasn't changed.

What's more confusing is that the fresh new scan I performed also returned unusable playlists.
Lowlander
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Re: replaced music library drive, now static playlists no longer work

Post by Lowlander »

You need to update the driveID when swapping drives: https://www.mediamonkey.com/wiki/index. ... w_computer

When you remove files (the old files in this case) they are also removed from Playlists. So the proper procedure when swapping drives is to NOT scan for new files and instead fix the driveID: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =2&t=63823

Unless you have a backup copy of the database before the drive swap there is no way to recover from this, other than manually recreating the Playlists (unless you exported the Playlists at some point).
freedomfries323
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Re: replaced music library drive, now static playlists no longer work

Post by freedomfries323 »

Thanks for the response. It's not too big a deal, I only have a few custom playlists to rebuild.

Will this database transfer over to MM5 easily, or should I just upgrade now and start over while I can?
Lowlander
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Re: replaced music library drive, now static playlists no longer work

Post by Lowlander »

Yes, upgrading to MediaMonkey 5 will update the MediaMonkey 4 database from a regular install automatically and can also be done manually for Portable Installs: https://www.mediamonkey.com/support/kno ... r-windows/
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