Moving music database to a new notebook
I am planning to buy a new notebook and to transfer CSDS to the new system. Most likely the music and the cuesheets will be in other directories than now. To avoid to change manually 900 entries in the music database, I tried to open the music-database-file with Excel and Word to find out, if it is possible to change the directories with "replace". But it is not possible to open that file properly.
Which program do I need to open and modify the music.dat? Access? Are there other possibilities?
The music database (c:\sqdata\music\music.dat) is in a proprietary format, and can not be easily opened and modified by other programs.
To "replace" directories, do the following
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Within CSDS, go into 'Music | Edit Music Database'.
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Select 'Tools | Export (dump database - for backup purposes)'.
Specify an 'output filename' and click 'OK'. A text-version of the database will be created.
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Use a text editor (e.g., WordPad, NotePad) to make the desired
changes to the text-version of the database. Only replace the folder pathnames. Don't mess with the format of the file.
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Copy the text-version of the database to the other computer.
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Run CSDS, go into 'Music | Edit Music Database',
select 'Tools | Import from Dump' and select the edited text-version of the database.
