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Import music and playlists broken
blgentry:
1. Library backups happen automatically. As far as I know you can't turn this off. So you should have backups that were made within a few days of the last time you used MC16. If MC16 will still run at all, you can find the location of the backups under Tools > Options > File Location > Program Files > Library Backups . Otherwise, look where Jim said.
2. Playlists are part of the backup. They are part of MC's internal database. They are not stored separately as M3U files. You might have exported some of these at some point as M3U, but that's not how MC stores them. They are part of the database. You will have the greatest success if you can find your most recent backup and restore it into MC23. Note that all of your metadata is in the internal database too. So you really want to find those backups!
3. The automatic finding of your library normally works between 1 or 2 versions of MC. For example, MC23 should find a library made with MC21 or MC22. Maybe even MC20. But the "automatic find my library" feature apparently doesn't go back as many versions as you are upgrading across. 16 to 23 is 7 major versions.
4. There's a slim possibility that you'll have to do a "stepped upgrade". That is, you might have to install each version in between MC16 and MC23 in order for each newer version to find and import the last version's database. I hope this will not be required for you, but I'm mentioning it for completeness.
Good luck Sir.
Brian.
K1lted:
Thank you once again, Brian.
1. This is not possible. If I could open MC16, i would, but (without warning), having reluctantly "upgraded" to Win10, I find myself unable to do so. Apparently the executable is incompatible with Win10.
2. MC23 appears to be incapable of finding such information. I have tried restoring the most recent database, none of my playlists were restored - again, I have been bringing this up for many years, yet it seems not to have improved in any way.
3. Whilst I comprehend your willingness to limit compatability between versions, that is not what you advertise.
Quote "MC23 will find your old data and settings and use them."
4. Whilst I appreciate this advice, why would I bother? I have now had this problem time, after time, after time. JR seems not to care that it cannot deliver what it promises. Given that the one feature that I employed the software for no longer functions, I am left wondering what value (if any) it offers.
Sadly, the answer is none, whatsoever, which is a real shame for something that one offered so much.
Dissapointedly
Brian
JimH:
Did you try using the browse button in the restore process? Go up a couple of directories.
Or search for *.zip
blgentry:
Just to clarify: I do not work for JRiver or represent them. I'm just a customer trying to help another customer.
I'm very surprised that your playlists did not migrate. I recently lost a few playlists myself, but I wasn't sure why or when. It *might* have been during a transition from MC on one machine to MC on other machine. But I can't be sure.
If playlists are not preserved across different versions of MC, or are not preserved during backup/restore, that would definitely be something to investigate and fix. In my opinion.
Brian.
JimH:
Playlists are preserved.
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