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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thanks for the input guys. have no idea what file structure even means so i'm assuming they are different from old pc to new pc.

peter: just started converting to FLAC on the old pc. will move them over and see what happens. looks like it's gonna take a long time to get them all converted (using j river. hoping your conversion idea works. i'd rather stick a rusty knife in my eye then re-rip all those disc's.

was using the same J River program (MC-15) on the old pc so i didn't foresee the WAV file problem. didn't know WAV files were tagless. could have easily ripped to FLAC had i known.

thanks again
cheers
Lev
thanks for the advice Dtc. am learning alot as i muck through all this computer stuff. it's not as bad as i thought it would be(as long as i have you guys around when something goes south =) ).

all is well and flac files are showing as they should in MC-15. streaming as i type this and in a much happier place now. you guys are the best!

thank you again

cheers
Lev