Merging Songs on 2 different hard drives

[Chuckster1936]

I have a PC and 2 laptops. I have imported CD's on each of these at different times. In so doing, I have BookID numbers with different songs and DiskID assigned to them. I have all this on 3 different external hard drives.

I would like to merge all these on 1 hard drive, but I lose the duplicate BookID numbers. Is there any way of renumbering the BookID, or must I indentify the Dups, and re-import each disk, which would be a monumental job.

My hoster is: 3.321, Windows XP, WD and Seagate 250GB and 320GB hard drives and a Seagate 1.5TB.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by Chuckster1936

I have a PC and 2 laptops. I have imported CD's on each of these at different times. In so doing, I have BookID numbers with different songs and DiskID assigned to them. I have all this on 3 different external hard drives.

I would like to merge all these on 1 hard drive, but I lose the duplicate BookID numbers. Is there any way of renumbering the BookID, or must I indentify the Dups, and re-import each disk, which would be a monumental job.

My hoster is: 3.321, Windows XP, WD and Seagate 250GB and 320GB hard drives and a Seagate 1.5TB.

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.

[Chuckster1936]

Thanks, Dale. That's seems to have taken care of it.

[nfountai]

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.

But, when you merge doesn't the computer see the same names or BookID's and ask if you want to replace or delete the duplicate?
I realize they are stored as you say but they are listed on the computer different.

[ddouglass]

Using Merge it will change the duplicates to an unused bookid and no it doesn't ask.

[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.