[mythtv-users] Moving music library

[Paul Harrison]

On 31/12/13 18:03, Jack McGee wrote:
> I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and myth 0.27, one backend, and one frontend.
>
> I want to retire a freenas machine that is holding my music collection.
>
> I have mounted a 4 tb drive in the backend where I have copied the 
> music collection. I will reorganize, re-tag as necessary on the copied 
> files.
>
> Is it then as simple as pointing mythmusic at an empty directory, 
> doing scan for new music, (to empty it), then point it to new location 
> and scan for new music again?
>
> I assume I lose playlists and stats in the process.
>


You should be able to just copy your music to the new location, 
preserving the timestamps if possible, and change the 'Directory to hold 
music' setting to point to the new location. That way you wont loose 
anything.

If that isn't possible then pointing MythMuisc to an empty directory and 
then doing a scan of the new location will work. It's a good idea to 
restart the frontend after each scan since a few people have reported 
problems doing multiple scans one after the other but it's difficult for 
me to reproduce it so YMMV.

If you have to do a rescan you will have to recreate your playlists. 
Your ratings and play count may be OK since MythMusic will write those 
to the tag if you have allowed it to so they will be read from the tag 
when you rescan.

Paul H.