winamp

[oli]

ok i have a load of playlists in winamp on one hard-drive. i am getting a new hard-drive soon and i want to move my music over. is there anyway to keep the playlists without remaking them?

[JohnDemolition]

just move the files over to the new hard-drive. well considering that you have a partition set up first.

[TheFiresInTheSky]

that could be a problem, winamp is bad for this part.

say you had all of your music stored at C:\music right now.

you would have to move all of your music over to the same exact directory.

then the playlists should play from anywhere.

[Andavari]

Moving playlists around from different disks/discs shouldn't be a problem at all so long as you don't have a drive letter associated inside the playlist.

 

For instance if your playlist has a drive letter in it like this to point to mp3's you can quickly change that in something like Notepad by pressing Edit->Replace (anyways this is what I check before burning a playlist onto a CD-R):

G:\MP3\Artist\01-Artist-Track.mp3

 

To remove the drive letter in Notepad just tell it to replace G:\ with nothing so the playlist will now look like this:

MP3\Artist\01-Artist-Track.mp3

 

Winamp is smart enough to know where the mp3's are, as is just about any other audio player.

[oli]

although i do like the idea of doing that to thousands of mp3's i think i may just change the drive letters on the hard drives, thanks.

[Andavari]

You do absolutely nothing to the MP3's. It's only the playlists that you edit which is actually automatically done with Notepad if you use Edit->Replace.

[oli]

i still have 100 plus playlists, seems very time consuming

[New_Age]

Can't you just set winamp to find those files again when you move the music over to the other HDD?

[oli]

you have to redo the playlists unfortunately