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cochinada:
I've moved all my Popular music into the new disk and updated the library as below:



I guess it will take time until MC builds the new library because as of now, it tells me it cannot find bla bla bla.
How can I know what is happening behind the scenes and if I didn't screw up?

cochinada:
Major screw up!
After importing the files from the new disk this is shown:



Before this operation, "Popular" was pointing to '/media/joaquim/Multimedia/Popular' and now after the migration, my Popular albums are under '/media/joaquim/Multimedia2/Popular',
What do I need to change?

I've changed the File Path but with no success:



EDIT:
fixed!
I overlooked that I also needed to change the "Set rules for file display".
It looks like I cannot have a logical OR of two rules, which prevents me from having Popular albuns in both discs. I can only chose one or the other. The same goes for Classical albums.  :-\

zybex:
You can have OR rules:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,135052.msg935181.html#msg935181

But you shouldn't have rules that depend on the location of the files, you should use tag values like Genre instead. As long as files are properly tagged, it doesn't matter where they are stored.

cochinada:

--- Quote from: zybex on February 23, 2023, 01:22:48 pm ---You can have OR rules:
https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php/topic,135052.msg935181.html#msg935181

But you shouldn't have rules that depend on the location of the files, you should use tag values like Genre instead. As long as files are properly tagged, it doesn't matter where they are stored.

--- End quote ---

I didn't know that. MC is full of tricks... ;)

In my case it's not practical to use Genre to separate Classical from Popular albums for one simple reason. In Classical albums I have more than 10 different genres and dozens in Popular albums, so making a filter grouping all these genres is way more cumbersome than simply filtering by location because all my classical albums are inside a different folder from where the Popular albums are.

zybex:
So set [Grouping] or [Keywords] tag to "Classical" and use that in the rules. Or create your own field like [Music Type] and set that instead. Then the rules only need to check that field and you're no longer restricted to where you put the albums.

Note that you can add such tags in bulk to a bunch of files at the same time, and you can also add it automatically on Auto-Import from a given folder.

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