HI
I am a long time user of MC, and have mostly been a happy camper.
My playlists were created in earlier versions (as old as v10 and mayme more), but, until now, have worked just fine.
Since upgrading to V16 though, I have had a problem importing my extensive playlists which has become quite frustrating. I couldn't find any info on it through a search or even googling the issue, so am posting here - please move if this is not the correct place.
I have restored the media library from an old PC, having copied over the music files onto the new HDDs. The drive letter in the new PC is different from before, so I changed that by a "find and replace", which seemed to work fine. I then re-searched the folders to make sure MC had found everything and all was good.
Playback via artist / album etc works just fine, however the problem comes when I try to use my playlists, some of which contain hundreds of files (maybe more!).
In the playlists, all of the files are marked as "file not found". Have been scratching my head about this for some time, but today I noticed that every single one of them appears to have been changed by MC on either the import or at some other stage. The reason they are not found, is because MC has added " (1)" (or " (2)", " (3)" etc if there are several versions) to each of the filenames immediately before the file extension, e.g. F:\Music\New\George Bizet - Avec la guarde montante (1).wma
Have checked all my playlists and this is the same in all of them - example screenshot available if I can work out how to attach it!
is there a simple way to prevent or fix this problem that anyone can suggest? Recreating the playlists would take a crazy amount of time and seems like it should be unnecessary as the files on the original machine worked just fine and didn't have the bracketed numbers on them.
Many thanks in anticipation for suggestions.
Brian