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Copying library to external HDD?
My music collection has grown too big for my computer and I would like to copy it to my external hard drive, how can I export my library to run from that whilst retaining all my playlists etc?
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There is no easy way to copying your library to another drive without deleting and re-importing all of your files.
Songbird doesn't move files around, it just plays them from the original location.
You're going to have to move your files from internal HD to external drive, delete all entries from the Songbird library and Import Media by pointing to the new location.
When 'delete all' from the library, all of your playlists content will be gone.
You will need to re-create it again.
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Inappropriate?There is no easy way to copying your library to another drive without deleting and re-importing all of your files.
Songbird doesn't move files around, it just plays them from the original location.
You're going to have to move your files from internal HD to external drive, delete all entries from the Songbird library and Import Media by pointing to the new location.
When 'delete all' from the library, all of your playlists content will be gone.
You will need to re-create it again.
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Inappropriate?I know that Songbird doesn't move files around, but it must *store their location* somewhere. So if by hand in one configuration file somewhere or even a big find-replace for all files' metadata, it should be possible to tell songbird to look in a new location.
Right? I couldn't find where this might be poking around myself, though.
I’m disappointed.
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Inappropriate?I understand what you mean. The same was asked or requested by other users too.
Like I said, there is no visual way to do this.
Location info is stored in main@library.songbirdnest.com.db
which is in a porfile folder:
\Songbird2\Profiles\********.default\db
You can use SQLite to work on that file.
Or, that would be a good idea, if someone writes the extension to do what you request.
There is one add-on which can export playlists, but it's not exactly what you're looking for, because it still relays on a original location:
http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/51 -
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Inappropriate?The SQLite Database Browser from Sourceforge didn't work on my (Intel) mac. I tried editing the DB as text.
file:///Users/ben/Music/iTunes/iTunes%20Music/
file:///Volumes/STORAGE/SAM/Music/Songbird/
25,553 replaced.
"Songbird has detected that your Library is corrupt and cannot be read.
In order for Songbird to function correctly, your library needs to be deleted. This action cannot be undone. You will lose subscriptions, playlists and track metadata edited in Songbird."
I should have tried it in Vim rather than Smultron...
Deleting the library and re-indexing, of course, worked. A hell of a lot of ratings lost.
