I was wondering if there was a component or something out there that can help me fix my playlists after I move music on my hard drive. It sucks having to hunt around and rebuild a big list of favorite albums or something like that.

I believe if you move music using the file renamer tool (set it to use the same file name and folder structure), it will update paths for you.

I like to move stuff around in windows explorer, but thats an option. I just got a new hard drive and I realised I'm not gonna be able to figure out what music folders go on which drive and I'll probably be moving around stuff a lot. Anyone got any suggestions on how I could keep a favorites playlist or list of some sort in foobar? Is there a "smart playlist" component for 0.8.3? Maybe I could make a smart playlist that just filters out all the albums I tell it to, I've never tried it yet.

Actually the best thing for me would be something that can take two windows directories and show them both together as if they were one, somewhere else. Anyone know how to do this with windows, or know a program that can do this?

On Unix (and Mac OS X) systems, "union mounts" are built into the operating system and do exactly what you want. They are very commonly used for "merging" a networked filesystem (such as an NFS mount) with a local directory already containing files.

At one point there was an NTFS symbolic link utility available, but it was difficult to use and could easily result in data loss. I also know of a "directory junction". You can create these with "linkd" or "junction". If these tools work across drives (and the description of junction indicates they do), they can solve you problem.

For example, if you normally keep all your music in C:\Music\ and move to your new hard disk at D:\Music, you could create a junction that would point C:\Music -> D:\Music. You could also just move things over slowly (a few artists/subdirectories at a time) and set up a junction to point to the new folders. Of course, this does not merge the directories together, but you can easily point old directory locations to new ones.

It might be easier, however, to update your playlists. =)

Man, I like these forums... real answers. How safe is this junction tool? You're talking to someone who's dealing with a LOT of mp3s (over 45k).

This doesnt really do what I want, or maybe I'm doing something wrong.

When I link both music folders to the master it targets the files to the folder I set, so when I paste something into one of my two music folders it doesnt stay on that drive, it gets moved to the master folder.

If I do the reverse of that where I link the master folder to the music folders, it will only let me link one to the folder.

I need something that will let me read and possibly write to the contents of 2 different folders in one spot.

I think I'm ok now. The database in 0.9 doesnt cause my foobar to run like crap like 0.8.3 did, and the auto playlists feature works almost perfectly. (I don't think there's a way to edit auto playlists yet.) Anyways, I can make auto playlists instead of playlists, that way all I have to do is rescan the library and everything gets fixed.

I use Junction Link Magic
it is easier to use than junction because it has a gui

I have 52,000+ MP3s and the file renamer/mover combined with Autoplaylists is a dream.

I use this for organizing my collection. I recommend it.