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In Reply to: RE: J River posted by Old Listener on March 24, 2015 at 00:32:48
I looked at some of the albums which have duplicate track 1,1, 2,2, etc
In Explorer, my music is stored on F:\1-Classical\Various\Beethoven
On the first list of track 1 on this album, the path is shown as F:\1-Classical (which is correct)
The second list of track 1 in this album shows F:\Various\Beethoven (which is incorrect)
How do I get rid of the incorrect entries in bulk?
Thanks in advance
jazz1
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I have suggested that the drive letter that Windows assigns to your removable drives may have been different in some point in the past. That may have caused some of your problems.Whether or not it was a cause of your problems, you should assign a permanent drive letter to the removable drive that contains the copy of your music files that you use. (Call it your music drive.)
1. Turn your laptop off. Disconnect the backup drive from the laptop and disconnect any USB thumb drives as well. The music drive should be the only one connected.
2. Turn on your laptop. After it finishes booting up, look under computer Windows Explorer and be sure that the music drive is listed.
4. Right-Click on "Computer" and choose "manage". On the left side of the Computer Management window, click on "Disk Management" under Storage.
5. Under the Volume column heading, find the music drive. Right click on that drive and choose "Change drive letter...".
6. In the dialog window that appears, click on the button labeled "Change". Another window then appears with a drop down list of drive letters to the right of the "Assign the following..." text. Click on that radio button and then choose the drive letter you want to be permanently assigned to the drive. (It will be somewhat simpler if you choose the drive letter that JRiver thinks the music files are on. F: I think.)
7. Click on the OK button of each dialog window so that your change is accepted.
Now every time you start your laptop, your music drive will have the same drive letter.
I've included a screenshot showing several of the dialog windows.
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
Edits: 03/24/15
In your artist/album view, start with no artist or album selected. Find the column headings above the list of files. (circled in the screenshot below.)1. Right-click on the leftmost tag name in the heading.
2. Scroll downward in the list of fields and click on filename (path).
3. Drag the vertical divider to the right of the words "filename (path)' to the right so that the path information is not cut off.
4. Click on the words "filename (path) in the heading. Now the files will be sorted by the path name.
You should be able to scroll downward and find groups of files with invalid path names. In each such group, click on the first file, scroll downward if necessary and shift-click on the last file in the group. Once you have a group of files selected, press the Delete key and choose the first option to delete the files from the library (without deleting the files.)
Keep scrolling through the list of files finding groups with invalid path names and deleting them.
So far, you have been in a hurry to fix your problem without understanding how it happened. I suggest that you slow down and understand what happened. If you don't, things like this will continue to happen to you.
my blog: http://carsmusicandnature.blogspot.com/
Edits: 03/24/15
I still cannot figure out why this happened. Does anyone else have a pointer to what caused it? JRiver seems to be finding paths that do not exist all by itself.
The only thing I did was a back up without any changes to the existing JRiver set up, and one must remember that the previous 2 back ups gave no problems.
Really puzzling as I will be nervous doing further back ups.
Maybe it would be safer to do back ups on another PC that has nothing to do with J River?
Thanks for the info's, my computer friend will come and help and hopefully resolve the problem.
From my limited experiences PC audio is only for computer wise people, the ordinary guys (like me) would find it difficult to cope with.
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