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Title: [x] [2536] How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: eobet on January 17, 2024, 15:07:36

I run AIMP "portable", from a USB drive. For every computer I plug it in to, I know I have to make sure that the drive letter is the same otherwise the music library stats in AIMP will get wiped.

But now I want to copy the entire AIMP folder and my library to a local drive, which means that the drive letter has to change.

How do I prevent all of my stats in my library (and playlists, etc) from being wiped when doing this?

Title: Re: How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: Artem on January 17, 2024, 16:43:33

Quote from: eobet on January 17, 2024, 15:07:36

I know I have to make sure that the drive letter is the same otherwise the music library stats in AIMP will get wipe

Music library automatically adjusts the drive letters of indexed files, it does not loose the files...
What I should do to reproduce your scenario?

Title: Re: How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: eobet on January 18, 2024, 12:20:25

I copied the following structure:

E:\Music\Aimp
E:\Music\Audiophile
E:\Music\Bandcamp
E:\Music\Soundcloud
E:\Music\Beatport

To the following:

C:\Users\eobet\Music\AIMP
C:\Users\eobet\Music\Audiophile
C:\Users\eobet\Music\Bandcamp
C:\Users\eobet\Music\Soundcloud
C:\Users\eobet\Music\Beatport

And when I open AIMP from the C drive, the entire music library is wiped in the left column...



And when I try to play a file, I get this error:

Title: Re: How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: Artem on January 18, 2024, 12:23:25

Oh, but this is not "the drive letter has to change". You have changed the path!
So, if your will store the music at "C:\Music" the library will work fine.

Title: Re: How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: eobet on January 18, 2024, 12:36:25

Ok, that made all the files re-appear, but I still can't play them.

When I try to play, I still get the FFFFF error and the popup says it's looking at E: still...

EDIT: I just went into the profiles folder and tried to manually replace all occurences of E: with C: but still the same error pops up when I try to play. There must be other places needing to be updated...

EDIT: Oh, it's the .aimppl4 files... they aren't updating!

Still, again, I lost all my ratings and play counts and such... wiped. :(

Title: Re: How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: Artem on January 18, 2024, 21:20:42

Quote from: eobet on January 18, 2024, 12:36:25

Still, again, I lost all my ratings and play counts and such... wiped.

How you setup file monitoring in music library?

Quote from: eobet on January 18, 2024, 12:36:25

When I try to play, I still get the FFFFF error and the popup says it's looking at E: still...

Yep it seems the playlists not mapped... but music library should work correctly

Title: Re: How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: eobet on January 22, 2024, 11:02:47

Quote from: Artem on January 18, 2024, 21:20:42

How you setup file monitoring in music library?

It looks like this now, but I don't know if the ratings etc were wiped the moment I opened AIMP when I also had moved it to a different folder...

Title: Re: How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: Artem on January 24, 2024, 22:47:35

Thank you, let me some time for research

Title: Re: [x] [2536] How to move music library to different disk?
Post by: Artem on January 26, 2024, 10:07:33

Please, try this build: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/dWoWH04y1msytQ