Transfer Music to New SD Card Without Losing Favorites?

[f1rebird1523]

I am an avid musician who listens to music throughout a large portion of my day. My old SD card (32GB) wasn't large enough to hold all of my music on it so I recently went out and bought a larger SD card. I currently have over 2000 songs favorited on my music player and would like to avoid spending over an hour to favorite each one again. Is there any way I can put all of my music on my new SD card and still keep all 2000+ favorites when the new SD is put in my phone?

 

[Zachary Boddy]

I do not believe so. I just did my own test by moving a single album from my microSD card to my device's local storage. I didn't lose my favorites, not at first glance, but in reality I did. You see, setting a song as a favorite doesn't create a copy of that song somewhere labeled "Favorites", it simply creates a memory path for your particular music application to follow should you want to play that "favorite." When the song in question is moved, the memory path becomes void. At least, this is my own logic for it. I could be wrong, but this is what I believe to be true. If you move your music, you'll lose your favorites.
There is a chance that moving it to a new microSD card would be different, but I doubt it, as it's still a new memory path.

 

[can3gxw]

Yes. I have done it.

1) Turn phone OFF
2) Remove old SD Card
3) Put old SD Card in computer and COPY the entire card to your hard drive
4) Put new SD Card in computer and COPY the contents back from your hard drive
5) Insert new SD Card into your phone and power it on

The "memory path" is simply "extSD\bla bla bla" - the phone doesn't care as long as the entire path structure is identical. That's the trickiest part - making sure that your new card looks IDENTICAL to your old card.

The reason why you want to COPY instead of MOVE is so that your original card is perfectly intact just in case you make a mistake somewhere, your original layout isn't messed with. Once you're satisfied that everything is working properly, format the old card and use it for something else.

Good Luck!