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[jacobacci]

Thanks to this forum I got to make SACD ISO tagging work, so I'm quite a happy camper.
The next challenge I am facing is that I would like the same library in my holiday home (which is in a physically different place and on a different network, so I can't simply move the files between two computers and NAS).
The Files tagged with ID3 are no problem, JRiver will pick their tags up during import at the holiday home. The SACD ISOs which I have tagged at home are a problem. As the holiday home computer sits on a network with a different IP range, JRiver is not able to associate the ISOs' library information with the files, if I simply restore the home library at to the holiday home computer (I can do that without issue between several home computers, as they are all set up in exactly the same way).
I managed to export the library information to XML and rename the path information, so it correctly reflects the network parameters of the holiday home's NAS. However I have not found a way to import the XML back into the library.
Is there a way, I can
- export the library info
- change the path parameters
- reimport the library info at the holiday home
Thanks a lot and regards
Rudi

[connersw]

I'm not sure I follow.  Do you have two different copies of the Files (ie one copy on a NAS at home and one on a different NAS at the second home)?  Or is their only one copy of the Files that you are pulling from the NAS at home?

Regardless, to import your Library (and by Library, I mean just the database) onto a 2nd PC, just create a back-up. File -> Library -> Backup Library and save it to a USB stick or something (it is not a large file).  Then on the 2nd PC, go to File -> Library -> Restore Library and pull up what you have saved.

There might be an easier, and better, way to do what you want to do if I was bit clearer on the set-up and what you are trying to ultimately accomplish.  For example, if you only have one copy of the Files, and you want to use your original Home PC/NAS as a Server, you could do that regardless of being on different networks (File -> Library Manager -> Add Library -> enter the URL for your home PC in Library Server). 

[glynor]

Is there a way, I can
- export the library info
- change the path parameters
- reimport the library info at the holiday home

Nope.  Do it the other way around.

1. Backup the Library at home with the Library Manager.

2. Transport all of the files as needed to the second home.  Get them on the storage there in as close of a configuration as you can to how they are at Home. Ideally, it would just be a different server name, with identical share names and paths to the files.

3. Restore the Library you made in #1 to the computer acting as the server at the second home.

4. All of the files will now be in the Library there, but they'll all be "broken".  You can then use the Find & Replace mode of the Library Tools > Rename, Move, and Copy Files tool to correct the part of the paths that are broken.

So, for example, if all of the files at home are imported as:

\\HomeNAS\Media\Path\to\the\file.flac

and at the second home they're

\\VacationNAS\Media\Path\to\the\file.flac

You can select all of the files in MC (again, this is done after importing the backup into the second home's server) and do Right Click > Library Tools > Rename, Move, & Copy Files

1. Change the mode at the top to Update database to point to new location.  This sets the tool to just alter the database itself, rather than trying to also move the files around (which, technically, doesn't matter because MC can't move broken links and will just update the database anyway, but it is safer this way).

2. Check ONLY the Find & Replace box.

3. In Find What type \\HomeNAS\

4. In Replace With type \\VacationNAS\

Click OK to accept the changes.  That should, in one fell swoop, fix the entire thing to point at the files in the right location.

Of course, change the find/replace text to match your circumstances.  As mentioned, this will be easiest if the storage setup at home and away match as much as is possible.  But, if needed, you can select subsets of files.  And, it is essentially a text find-and-replace, so you could even go from a UNC type \\ServerName\ShareName\Path setup to a drive letter based M:\Path setup if needed.

If you haven't used this tool a bunch (assuming not since you're asking this question): Do a few and review the Preview pane in the tool carefully so you understand fully what will be happening, before you try to Select-All and do them all.

[jacobacci]

Thanks a million, Glynor
Sounds perfectly clear and I will try this when I go up next time. I have not used this functionality yet, as up to now I never transferred SACD ISOs and I always let JRiver import the library normally.