Merging Songs on 2 different hard drives

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

The KMA files are not named or stored by BookID, but instead they are named with DiskID & Track Number, so copying all to one drive will not lose any files.
Then you will need to run the Merge or Add (not sure which it is called in 3.321) instead of Rebuild to get Hoster to change the duplicate BookIDs. This should straighten them all out.

Only time it will not work is if you have more than 2 sets of book id's for some reason.

[Chuckster1936]

Been working on this for some time without success. I have 10,272 songs with 1121 dups. The 'dups' are different songs with the same 'bookid' because they were done on different computers. When I tried to use the 'merge' files it merged the files, but did not apply a new 'bookid'. As a result, I have 2 'bookid's with the same number 12410. While they show both numbers, and 2 different songs in the 'database search', when you try and play them it plays the same song for each selected. Any ideas?

Windows XP running Hoster 3.321

[ddouglass]

As Lonman said if you had more than two sets with duplicates, then it may not work. Try running it a second time to eliminate any duplicates that still exist.