Moving / Copying Collection Files / Folders

[mncroc]

I'm trying to consolidate my music library that is currently spread across a few different folders and drives for multiple reasons that I won't go into here.

I'd like to consolidate the folders but I'm wondering what the impact is to any SMP specific data.

Testing a bit by copying one set of folders to another location --> reimporting the new folders --> comparing the original files with the "new" copies...I noticed most files looked identical in SMP, but a few had different playcounts and ratings. It's the ratings I'm most concerned with. I seemed to recall that SMP stores these outside the files themselves.

After some searching, I re-discovered the "Save playcounts and ratings to files now" option in SMP's Settings. So I'm assuming I should use this to save those files to the MP3 file tags before moving/copying. I'm pretty sure this is stored in the Popularimeter tag (POPM).

QUESTION: What, if any, other things will be broken or different after moving files to a new location?

Any suggestions on how to best move collection folders to a new location with the least impact?

Thanks in advance.

[jonas]

@mncroc
There is a setting "Song fingerprinting and tracking" under settings / collection, if you turn that on, it should automatically figure out that the song file is moved and update the URL, instead of deleting the song and adding the new from the new location. You need to do "Update changed collection folders" under tools after the option is enabled.
You can also turn on the option to save playcounts and rating under the collection settings, there is a also a button there to synchronize all playcounts/rating.

[mncroc]

Thanks @jonas !