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Thread: Copied music files to another drive and now seem to have lost all my ratings etc.
Started 1 month, 2 weeks ago by drmrbrewer
OK.  So I went about the process of moving all my data (music included) to a new drive, separate to my OS drive.  I first copied the entire Music folder to the other drive.  I then pointed my "Music" folder to the new location (under "location").  I then deleted the old Music folder.  Now WMP can't see any of those music files on the new drive.  What is worse is that I suspect that all my ...
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Kites replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
check the location
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drmrbrewer replied 1 month, 2 weeks ago
What do you mean by "check the location"?  I can't see anything about location in WMP.  The location of my "Music" folder in Vista Ultimate is "S:\Users\Mike".  When I click on Music under the Start Menu, for example, it goes to the right place (on the S: drive).  Mike
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drmrbrewer replied 1 month, 1 week ago
Ah, OK.  I'm now convinced that I can't trust MS and in particular WMP with my music metadata, and have changed to using foobar2000.  It takes a LOT of effort to tag and rate files, and this data should be treated with more caution and respect.  It shouldn't be so easy to throw this information away -- merely my moving music files to another drive -- the OS itself allows the Music folder to be ...
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Copied music files to another...
Published (2009-11-11 10:49:00)
Ah, OK.  I'm now convinced that I can't trust MS and in particular WMP with my music metadata, and have changed to using foobar2000.  It takes a LOT of effort to tag and rate files, and this data should be treated with more caution and respect.  It shouldn't be so easy to throw this information away -- merely my moving music files to another drive -- the OS itself allows the Music folder to be moved to another drive!! Mike
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Published (2009-11-10 06:18:00)
check the location

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