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engeee:

--- Quote from: JimH on July 19, 2018, 11:25:15 am ---If you're trying to import them, you need to set up auto import.  Again, the wiki will help.

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I'm not sure I understand? They are already imported into my music library. I'm not switching computers only trying to gather the files into one place instead of many. ???

engeee:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on July 19, 2018, 11:37:32 am ---Do all your files have metadata? They might not appear correctly if they don't.

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Yep, they do have metadata and some of that gets funky when I've tried the various efforts too. That may very well be "user error" too as I try the different approaches. For instance, it would take all the tracks from multiple artists and multiple albums and simply throw the individual tracks all into one folder - not divided by folders or etc.
Not good. Ugh

blgentry:
You would probably be best served by doing a VERY simple move in order to get everything on one drive.  For example, pretend the following:

You want to move everything to /Volumes/BigDrive/Music/

You have the following 3 files:

/Volumes/smalldrive/Music/Pink Floyd/The Wall/Young Lust.flac
/Volumes/otherdrive/Music/Rush/Moving Pictures/YYZ.flac
/Volumes/yetanotherdrive/users/engee/Music/The Verve/The Rolling People.flac

I would write a rule in the Rename, Move, and Copy files tool that does a Find and Replace for each of your drives above.  The new file locations would be:

/Volumes/BigDrive/smalldrive/Music/Pink Floyd/The Wall/Young Lust.flac
/Volumes/BigDrive/otherdrive/Music/Rush/Moving Pictures/YYZ.flac
/Volumes/BigDrive/yetanotherdrive/users/engee/Music/The Verve/The Rolling People.flac

It's almost like you are recreating the entire drive below the new drive. 

Depending upon how things are laid out on your smaller drives, you might be able to manually copy these files, as I have suggested above.  Then just do a JRiver database update to change the paths for each drive using the Find and Replace template.

The details here are super important to get right.  It all depends upon how your files are laid out.

Brian.

engeee:
Hi all,
Let me try to simplify, rephrase my question and ask it again... (hey! I'm determined)

Let's say I have 100 songs (just an example) in my library and/or playlist and they are correct as far as title, artist, art, etc.
They are each stored currently on any of a variety of 10 external drives across my network. Could be a few in the same location. Could be same artists on different drives too.
There are other music files on these drives as well - but they are not added to the library or playlist.

My goal is to have the 100 song library files all physically migrated to one new additional drive/location. They should still keep the Artist, Album, Tracks, organization.
I'm okay with it creating a copy in the new location. I can go back and delete the other later.

I'm pretty sure MC can do this, but whenever I try I wind up with a mess. All track and artists lumped into one location. Hence multiple track ones, twos, etc... The hierarchy is a mess.
I'm open for any help as I'd like to figure this out. My collection is huge and I'd like to get it all in one spot...oh and organized too....lol.

Please feel free to contact me direct at: engeee@aol.com

Thank you,
steve
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HaWi:
All the files to be moved and the ultimate destination must be available (i.e. seen in Finder) to MC at the time you want to change their location. Then:
1) Make a new library at the desired destination
2) Set the correct path and filename to your desired location/structure
3) Import the files. This may be a bit tedious if they are on many different locations
4) Save the files to new location (F6)

Alternatively, physically move the media files into the desired folder structure using Finder and then import into new library. Make sure the file location and naming convention is set correctly in the library.

Whichever solution you choose, try it with a few albums/tracks first, then when you are confident it works (might require some intermittent tweaking [I never get it right the first time around]) do the rest.

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