Repair iTunes playlists after relocating Library

Feb 05, '03 09:30:29AM

Contributed by: jaysoffian

I relocated my entire iTunes library this weekend to an NFS server. After I did so, I realized that all my playlists were no longer valid since iTunes couldn't locate the songs. Instead of locating the songs in the playlists one song at a time (ugh), I did this:

  1. Exported each playlist, save it as XML.
  2. Deleted all the songs and playlists from iTunes. In this case, I wasn't deleting the songs from on disk, just iTunes pointers to the songs.
  3. Reconstructed the iTunes library by adding all the songs back into the library.
  4. Re-imported the XML playlists
iTunes will then reconstruct each playlist and will be able to find the songs in the new locations. Cool, eh?

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