[PHamm]

Please excuse the very basic nature of this question, but I'm still trying to get my head around the terminology and nature of JRiver. I recently installed JRMC for Mac 20 on my headless Mac Mini and it worked well enough. However, I subsequently had to replace the external hard drive which holds all my music files. This prompts a simple question: how do I re-point my JRMC audio library to the music files on the new hard drive? There must be a very simple way to do this, but I can't seem to find it on the JRMC wiki or forum. I assume someone here will know the answer. Again, I apologize that this question is so basic.

[Big Red Machine]

On the main menu along the top, you need to get to Options (inside one of those), then along the side there are quite a few menus to choose from.  While at work I cannot remember, but one of them asks for your drive.  As a side note, I use 3 drives and in my menu only 2 are shown but the software finds them all eventually.  it is pretty good s/w.  The more you use it, the more you see how flexible it is.  I have been using the Add to Playlist function quite a bit to keep building a compliation of the tracks that demo my system the best.  You can do this while playing any track.

[Big Red Machine]

Tools menu along the top, start there.

[Phil A]

I'd think you would want to go to 'file' on the upper left and then to 'library' and then import your music.    You can configure the import to do multiple drives.  http://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Import

[PHamm]

Thanks, guys. This sort-of solved the problem. I tried the Tools/Library/Import approach and re-loaded all the files, but I also now have two copies of each track--one with a file path to my old hard drive and one with a file path to the new drive. This is a bit of a nuisance and will require some serious editing at some stage, but I can play music via JRMC again. At least this is better than my original if-all-else-fails plan to deleting my library and reinstalling it because I didn't lose cover art. I hope this question is helpful to other new users of JRMC. Cheers.

[Phil A]

Thanks, guys. This sort-of solved the problem. I tried the Tools/Library/Import approach and re-loaded all the files, but I also now have two copies of each track--one with a file path to my old hard drive and one with a file path to the new drive. This is a bit of a nuisance and will require some serious editing at some stage, but I can play music via JRMC again. At least this is better than my original if-all-else-fails plan to deleting my library and reinstalling it because I didn't lose cover art. I hope this question is helpful to other new users of JRMC. Cheers.

I store the cover art with the albums (so if I back-up stuff it is there).  You can go to 'file' on the upper left and clear the library.

[Phil A]

You can go to 'Tools' and then 'Options' to dictate where the cover art goes.

[Vincent Kars]

but I also now have two copies of each track--one with a file path to my old hard drive and one with a file path to the new drive. This is a bit of a nuisance and will require some serious editing at some stage,

Not really.
Assuming the OSX interface is like the Win:
-select all the albums
- open the file panel
- sort by filename

Now you can select all the files on the old drive and delete them.

Next time: if you move to a new drive simply use Library Tools > Rename Move Cope and chence e.g. C: to D:

[PHamm]

Wow, that was simple! Thank you, Vincent!

Paul

[Vincent Kars]

JRiver is very feature rich hence it takes some time to find your way.
Maybe my website is of use to you as it list a couple of JRiver's options: http://thewelltemperedcomputer.com/SW/Players/MC14/MC14_intro.htm