what I am really interested in is preserving things like structure including playlists and multiple song references to a single FID, play counts, ratings and all the stuff that is not stored within the ID3 tags.
That stuff is collectively referred to as "the
database", and copies of it are stored separately in the "fids" directories on the two drives.
So long as you copy everything from the two drives' fids directories to the new drive, and then rebuild the database (run emplode), it should all survive the move.
In addition, there is a special disk partition on drive0, which holds what the empeg sees as "dynamic data". This is stuff like the
current playlist, equalizer settings, FM radio presets, track profiles, etc..
That
dynamic data was not in your original list of things you wanted to preserve. But if you do want it, it should be as simple as using
cat (on the Linux command line) to do a simple binary copy from the old drive0 to the new single drive.
Perhaps somebody with a better memory might kick in here with the exact partition names to supply as parameters for "
cat".
Cheers
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