how can I change iTunes directory location without breaking current track rips

Currently I have my iTunes directory for CD rips on hard drive A (pointed at Drive E) I am going to move the tracks to a new hard drive - B and point it to a new drive letter & location.

How can I move those tracks and open iTunes without breaking the tracks that are already there are pointing to.

Since what’s there points to Drive E I will have to get those tracks to point to a new location. I know in the past on an old computer I’ve tried that and it made a mess of my iTunes doubling up tracks and showing broken track locations.

Thanks in advance for any help! Cheers!

Windows, Windows 10

Posted on Mar 18, 2022 4:47 AM

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turingtest2

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Mar 18, 2022 1:14 PM in response to nacho220

See Make a split library portable - Apple Community. In general if you choose the path and let iTunes consolidate to it that works better than moving things by hand and hoping they don't break. Recent versions of iTunes seem to have issues, for some users, saving the media folder location when it isn't iTunes Media in the same folder as the .itl file.

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