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WMP does react to files being moved. You might therefore find that you can just leave WMP open during the move and let it make changes to its playlists itself. But I just don't trust WMP enough.
If you are going to move the music files then I suggest:-
1 Close WMP before you start so it is not trying to react to your changes while you are still in the middle of doing them.
2 I always make a backup copy of the WMP database files [*.wmdb] before any major change such as this - "%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player"
3 Keep the same overall structure to their folders e.g. move the whole of C:\Users\User\Desktop\music to, say, C:\Music or D:\Music etc [As always, the safe way to move is to make a backup first]
4 Make one playlist for a music file in its new location
5 Read the new .wpl file in Notepad and read one of the original playlists so you can see the difference.
6 Work through all your playlists in Notepad substituting the common part of the new path for the original one
7 Then you can re-open WMP and all the playlists should operate correctly using the new locations.
When I do anything like this, I normally change the playlists to use absolute paths so I do not have to mess about with all those …\… bits but, since you will be doing the same change in them all [Replace C:\Users\User\Desktop\music with C:\Music] you can choose either form of address.
I always include the WMP database files [*.wmdb] in my routine backups as well. That's merely because I sometimes had database corruption in Windows 7 WMP. I can also copy those files between my computers so I can have the same Date last played data in them all.
All the best,
Denis
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