restructuring music folder structure and updating the Emby DB

[Jägs 85]

Apologies if this has been asked/answered, but I could not find a solution/instructions, so if there is one, kindly point me in the right direction.

I have a very large music collection and my current file organization structure is making it difficult to maintain—manual deduplication, etc.  That said, I'd like to move from a genre-based structure:

• e.g., music —> Jazz —> Davis, Miles

to a simple alphabetical structure:

• e.g. music —> D —> Davis, Miles

I have number of playlists I'd like to maintain—shameless plug for this playlist feature—so I'm wondering if there is a way on the DB side that I could update the file paths en masse after I move them? 

As an alternative, if it's just a matter of exporting the playlists, updating the paths in the M3U, then I'm fine letting Emby reindex with the new paths too; this might even be a simpler approach, now that I think about it.

Thoughts?

[Luke 42080]

HI, playlists already get saved as m3u, so you could just edit the m3u files after making the moves.

[Jägs 85]

OK, I'll just take that approach as it will be simplest.  Thanks!

[Luke 42080]

Make sure to run a library scan after editing the m3u files.