So here is one possible problem, when you move your playlist info out of JRiver, you have to put it in the same folder that your music that the playlists are made up from are in. If you have some music in C drive and some in external storage, this might be a problem. I am no expert at this, but here is what I would try if I were you. You would be better off if all your music is in one place no matter what.
I would name a folder in your external hard drive. Then I would put all your music in it. You can have a bunch of different folders with different music in them inside this main folder, put you need one folder that contains all the music. So I would take any music that you have on C drive and store it in the external drive
so lets say that you make a folder called “computer music,” inside computer music you have another folder for rock music, another for classical…Just leave everything inside the “computer music” folder the same way that JRiver sees it
- go into JRiver, click on one of your playlists. then under FILE, choose “export playlist” check the box in front of “store paths relative to exported playlist location” check the box in front of M3U (simple)
-Next, in “save in” type the address of the new folder that you just created to store all your music. In my example above, you would type in “computer music”
-then click “OK” at the bottom
-you also need to make your new folder “computer music”, a watch folder in Roon
I think Roon should see your playlist now. If it worked then do each of your other playlists the same way. - What might happen is that the songs that were in your external hard drive may show up in the playlist and the ones in C drive may not. In that case, I would just manually add them to the playlist, and at least part of it transferred over
- if you already have a folder with most of your music in it, you can just just type it’s address in the above instructions “Save in” window instead and then again you may have to add the files from C Drive back into your playlists.
-The main point is that you need a music folder with all your music in it and also the exported playlist information in it and this folder has to be in Roons " watched folders" - also, keep in mind, that when you export the playlists from JRiver, the playlist don’t contain the actual songs but they contain the path to find the actual songs
again, I am in no way an expert at this so I’m not sure this will work because what I did with the Nucleus… was a lot different then what you are trying to do , so this is my best guess based on what worked for me
whatever happens, going forward I think you will be better off if all your music is organized and in one place. worse case, you have to make the playlists over. depending on how big they are, that may not be a huge deal. mine were huge, and I already remade them once when I couldn’t figure out how to import them into Roon the first time so I did not want to do it again
Goodluck . If you try this and it works, let me know