Thanks for your insights.
I've started becoming familiar with Frankz first reply and am proceeding with the .XML script action. This sophistication is, for me, like going through a dark doorway and not knowing whether there is a floor or cliff on the other side; no turning back
Also, thanks captain_paranoia for your comments:)
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Caveat: for years, I have used MM with a powered portable (fast) esata drive that I would use between the desktop & laptop using a command shortcut to path to the esata drive (MM's .db, .ini & music files). Unfortunately, if I forgot to power up the esata drive (or power failure), MM would default to the C: drive & lose all communication to the esata drive; catastrophe. As a result, after power-up to make a long story short, there were instances where the MM.db & .ini files would get written over by the C: drive's newly created .db & .ini. Fortunately, in many cases I had recently backed up MM.db & .ini files and was able to recover most of my data. I'd probably spend a half day trying to recover each failure; over 12 yrs this has been many days. There were times (most recently) where I made many playlists which were lost & non-recoverable. This was MM's straw that broke the camel's back.
I never understood why MM never built safeguards into MM to prevent this type of failure??
Multiplying & spurious artwork infecting all the .mp3 files was another major issue I have. In cases, up to eight artworks were included into a mp3 file when all I wanted was one album artwork. Nine out of ten times the incorrect artwork showed when a mp3 file would play. None of MM scripts fixes worked 100%. Also, there was no way to differentiate the display of good album versus a bogus artwork. This problem has gone on for years. (See all the complaints on MM forum.) The only way for me to correct this was to manually go into each mp3 file and correct it. This is not practical considering I have over 67,000 songs.
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Would anyone know whether MusicBee's configuration would get trashed, like MM, if power failure or experiencing an un-powered esata drive? I don't have USB3 ports on my PC's to take advantage of WD's Passports USB3 capability
Have you experience with placing the mp3 files & MusicBee configuration files on an external drive? My preference is to not replace the esata, BUT I have a WD MY PASSPORT drive which does not require power. (My only negative with this is the Passport will be slower.)
Again, thanks for your insights. Awesome!