copy the music data from one existing small drive (say, drive0) to the newly-formatted bigger drive

Hi Tony - Great idea to do a FAQ on disk upgrading / moving the music and playlist content. As you may remember, I moved all content of my Mk1 to its second disk that I removed before selling the Mk1. Last week I had the courage to open up the Mk2 to add the second disk. (I'll explain separately in a reply to Bonzi).

I'll describe here how I moved music between disks. Though I used them to move music between players, it may explain the principles to move music between disks within the same player. Mike Crowe helped with this . It turned out to be real easy because the empeg software is pretty clever: if it cannot find files on /drive0, it automatically looks on /drive1, and -- if necessary -- rebuilds the tags, database and playlists from the music files it finds.

Apparently all the information that is need to operate the player is in the music files in /driveX/fids,
The control files (database, playlists and tags) are in /driveX/var; they are not essential; they can be rebuild from the fids information.

To transfer my Mk1 content to the Mk2, I first added all the music files from the first disk onto the second before removing the second disk:

mount -n -o remount,rw /drive1
cd /drive1/fids
cp /drive0/fids/* .
mount -n -o remount,ro /drive1
sync
sync


once this disk was inside the Mk2, I removed all content from te Mk2's first drive
mount -n -o remount,rw /drive0
cd /drive0/var
rm database
rm playlists
rm tags
cd /drive0/fids

and removed its root playlist and all other music
rm *
mount -n -o remount,ro /drive0

Then, player was started to rebuild the database via emplode. It tries to use the music from the second disk in addition to that on the first (nothing in my case), rebuilding the database. I haven't tried leaving fids on drive0, but I bet that these will be included in the database too.

Have been adding more MP3s since, which are allocated to the drive with the most available space. They happily go onto the drive that came with the Mk2

Henno
mk2 nr 6

Edited by Henno on 4/8/00 00:37 AM.