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need some help with J River and a new pc

just upgraded my pc this week and ran into a major problem. hoping someone here might be able to help. OS is windows 7 home premium. ripped 1200 cd's onto my old pc. 85% was done in WAV and 15% done in ape and m4a.got all my stuff over using and external hard drive. my data is on the new pc.....i can see it. problem is, J River will not import the libary correctly. i can see all my music when i use "file view" but in album or artist view....only the ape and m4a music is showing(cover art is there as well)??. in file view, all my ape and m4a list an album title, genre and date, but the wav files do not. wav files only show artist. thinking this could be the problem. any help here would be great.

thanks
levy03

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kthomas
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I'm not sure what you mean by "import the library" - if you mean scan the drive and find music files, I don't think it will pick up the WAV files as they have no tag info. If your directory structure on the new PC w/ external drive is identical to your old PC, then you should be able to open a backup file of your library and everything would be there. If the directory structure is not identical, there are probably still ways to start in this manner and get all the files "reconnected".

I'm assuming you've already posted over on the JRiver forum for help. If not, you should - very helpful and knowledgeable.
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