Neil
Tue Jun 17 14:41:05 PDT 2008
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 13:04:00 -0700, Quaven
<Quaven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Hello Everyone,
>After I rip new music onto my computer I frequently modify the files using
>the Advanced Tag Editor, genre, mood etc. All my music files are then loaded
>onto an external hard drive for safe keeping. Is all this new info saved
>onto my hard disc. If I have a main hard disc failure and have to reload the
>music from my back up files will I have to go back in and re-modify all the
>songs? Also, how do I save my playlists? I have made many playlists but
>when I transferred all the files to another computer, all the music was there
>but no playlists.
If you right-click on a playlist, then choose "Open file location"
it'll probably be under My Documents/My Music/My Playlists folder
You can simply copy those files to the backup location, as they are
(mostly) just a list of file locations to the media files they play in
sequence.
Of course, if you move the actual media files around, then they'll
become out of sync, but as long as when you do a restore, you put the
media files back where the playlists expect them, then they should
"just work".
Note that this doesn't apply to "Auto Playlists", which actually *do*
reference the media library to generate automatic file lists (they
don't usually contain any hard-coded file locations)
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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