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[donlboy]

I posted this problem earlier but I think I made it too complicated, so am trying again with a simpler statement of the problem.

I have lots of playlists with lots of songs, all with filenames including the device name (i.e. \\devicename\music\artist\song.flac). I want to change them all to use the device IP address rather than the device name (i.e. \\192.168.nn.nnn\music\artist\song.flac). I tried using Rename, Move & Copy Files but that changed the song name to song(1),flac . Does anyone know of a way to do this without individually deleting each song in every playlist  and replacing it with the one using the IP filename?

[tij]

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Rename,_Move,_and_Copy_Files

Read that carefully ... you want to use Find and Replace function or Update database to point to new location

[donlboy]

I read the Rename, Move, and Copy Files info thoroughly (again) but still couldn't work out how to do what I needed so I just tried some different settings. As I said in my original post, Find & Replace caused the song name to be appended with a (1). I had the Mode set to Rename, which is how I have always used it when I used Find & Replace to change filename paths when I moved files. So I tried Update Database to point to new location (no file rename, move or copy) with Find & Replace and that did it! I guess my sort-of unique need to change filenames in playlists doesn't rate a mention in the instructions. Thanks for the help.

[tij]

Glad it work out ... wiki is updated by volunteer users like you and me ... and MC is always on the move ... so hard for them to keep pace and cover every possible scenario