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How to Tell MediaMonkey Your Files Are on a New Drive

Maybe you ran out of room and bought yourself a new drive for all those music files. How do you tell MediaMonkey to look for the files on the new drive?

The MediaMonkey knowledgebase includes an entry on this subject, but I didn't feel safe monkeying around with the drive serial number - I didn't know what might break! So instead I came up with this alternate method.

The information provided below is not guaranteed in any way - Do this at your own risk!
1. Get Disk Serial Number of New Drive

Go to a DOS prompt.

Change to the new drive (example: "N:").

Type dir

The serial number should be in a form like this: 563A-FE37.
2. Convert Serial Number to Decimal

Use the handy utility below. You may end up with a negative number. That's fine - if it's negative you'll have to enter it that way later in Step 5.
Javascript Drive Serial Number Hex-to-Decimal Converter

3. Backup the MediaMonkey Database

For MediaMonkey 3.0 you can find the database at the following location:
Windows XP 	C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Application Data\MediaMonkey\MM.DB
Windows Vista 	C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\MediaMonkey\MM.DB

Make a copy of it in case anything goes wrong!
4. Open MediaMonkey Database

MediaMonkey uses a SQLite database. In addition to the songs it also keeps track of the disks the songs are on. Here's where you will change the disk serial number so MediaMonkey will look for your songs on your new disk.

First download the free SQLite Database Browser from SourceForge. There is no real "install" process for this - what you're downloading is simply a zip file with a single executable program file inside.

Run the SQLite Browser and open the MediaMonkey database.
5. Change the Disk Serial Number in the Database

Click the Browse Data tab and choose the Medias table. Find your old drive, which you should be able to identify by the Label. Doubleclick on the SerialNumber field and change the serial number to the decimal number you got in Step 2.

While you're at it also change the Label and ShowLabel fields.
6. Change the Drive Letter in the Database

Using the horizontal scroll bar, go to the last field on the right, DriveLetter and change it if you need to. Use the table below to determine what number to put in the field.

Your
Drive
Letter	DriveLetter
Value
C:	2
D:	3
E:	4
F:	5
G:	6
H:	7
I:	8
J:	9
K:	10
L:	11
M:	12
N:	13
O:	14
P:	15

7. Done!

Now close SQLite Browser and restart MediaMonkey.

In case anything went wrong you can always revert to the database backup file you made in Step 3.