Library Upgrade

pah68 · Post by **pah68** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:17 am

I've missed something obvious I guess, but how do I upgrade my old 2.5 library to the new Beta?

G.I. · Post by **G.I.** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:26 am

When I installed the beta (Haven't installed any alpha's) it just automatically said: Converting Library ... took a long time, but I have much data ...

Anyway, it did this automatically ...

pah68 · Post by **pah68** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:49 am

I've installed over one of the earlier Alpha's, but there has been no upgrade.

I'll try uninstalling and re-installing.

pah68 · Post by **pah68** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:01 am

I've uninstalled MM3 and re-installed. Still no idea how to upgrade my old 2.5 library.

I still have a MM2 installed in a different folder. I've been installing my Alpha and Beta 3's into C:\Program Files\MediaMonkey3

Steegy · Post by **Steegy** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:06 am

Make sure that
- MM3 finds your MM2 database (it should be in the My Music folder)
- No previous MM3 database is found (if it finds a MM3 database in C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Application Data\MediaMonkey, it probably won't look for a MM2 database)

pah68 · Post by **pah68** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:08 am

Uninstalling 3 screwed up my MM2 setup

pah68 · Post by **pah68** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:15 am

Steegy wrote:No previous MM3 database is found (if it finds a MM3 database in C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Application Data\MediaMonkey, it probably won't look for a MM2 database)

There we go...thanks champ.

Converting now.

GSV3MiaC · Post by **GSV3MiaC** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:29 pm

Steegy wrote:Make sure that
- MM3 finds your MM2 database (it should be in the My Music folder)
- No previous MM3 database is found (if it finds a MM3 database in C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Application Data\MediaMonkey, it probably won't look for a MM2 database)

Does anyone know if the database conversion takes care of Virtual Cd files (and database entries)??

Every time I have installed a MM3 release (in a separate folder to where MM2.5 lives) it seems to revert to 'non gold' status (and as someone said, removing it leaves MM2.5 screwed up, in terms of portable device options, Gold status, and probably some other stuff I have yet to detect.

pah68 · Post by **pah68** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:54 pm

And it's ruined all my classifications, They all read
Tempo (moderate), Mood (Mellow), Occasion (Background), Quality (Excellent). Half my Autoplaylists can no longer be viewed.
Rescanning the library does not update the classification fields from the tags of my MP3's

Post by **jiri** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:14 am

Please provide some more details, or maybe better e-mail me the .mdb file to be converted with a description of what's wrong, we'll look into it.

Jiri

pah68 · Post by **pah68** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:25 am

I've since come up with a work around whereas I created a playlist of every classification option, then upgraded and made the classification changes in the new library based on those playlists.

I had created a number of my own classifications which may have caused the issue. A number of my autoplaylists don't work and these may have used some of those custom classifications.

I'd e-mail you my mdb but it's very nearly 100MB