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Bug Reports / Relink Music File Paths requires finding the old non-existent location

« on: June 02, 2025, 03:25:43 PM »

The "Relink Music File Paths" function requires locating the old location in a folder browser just to perform the relinking.

Except that often times the location for the original files didn't exist in first place (such as when you change to a new computer and decide to change how you organize your folders/files), or much more often, the old location ceases to exist after a user deletes it after moving the files.

I've never had any program that's looking for lost files ask me to locate the the old, now non-existing location, and it's just completely dumb for such a function to require it, not to mention mandates a entirely counterintuitive file transfer process for the user if they have to restore or recreate the old location. It should just simply ask for which folders to check like any other import function, nothing else. There's zero need for the old location if I give it a new one to look inside, but it won't let me proceed without finding the previous (and now gone) folder's location inside the browser.

Because extra pointless and restrictive requirement, I instead had to learn about and use the Locate Missing Files tool (thanks to this topic: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=41628.0) and then manually input the folder just to get it update the file paths after an hour of struggling to work out a solution with the help of google to a fairly basic import function given unnecessary requirements and complexity.

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Bug Reports / Re: The source file could not be found for every track in whole library

« on: June 02, 2025, 02:58:33 PM »

Thanks for the link, but it is for moving the source location of my music eg from the C drive to the D drive.  However, my music has never been moved. It's always on the d:/ drive.  It's just for some strange reason MusicBee has got confused and thinks that it's on the c:/ drive.  

The instructions that Mayibongwe linked are for exactly this problem. Relink Music File Paths doesn't move the files, it changes where MusicBee looks for the files. So if it thinks they're on C:\, then relinking from C:\ to D:\ will tell it to look for the files on D:\ instead.

Unfortunately that doesn't work if the location for the original files didn't exist in first place (such as when you change to a new computer and decided to change how you organize your folders/files), or after deleting such location after moving the files. This is because it doesn't give you an option to simply ignore the "from" location files in the given folder and just check the "to" location.

I've never had any program that's looking for lost files ask me to locate the the old, now non-existing location, and it's just completely dumb for such a function to require it, not to mention mandates a entirely counterintuitive file transfer process for the user if they have to restore or recreate the old location. It should just simply ask for which folders to check like any other import function.

I had to instead learn about and use the Locate Missing Files tool and then manually input the folder just to get it update the file paths after an hour of struggling to look for a solution (via google) to a fairly basic import function given unnecessary requirements and complexity.