UPDATE. It appears that I found how to migrate the music from Windows 7 to Windows 10 without major time input.

I found where the WMP metadata files are. They are in the folder c:\users\username\local\microsoft\media player.

The Windows 7 has the metadata is the file CurrentDatabase_372.wmdb Windows 10 has the metadata in the file CurrentDatabase_400.wmdb.

I tried coping the _372.wmdb from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and then copy it over the _400.wmdb. This didn't go well. WMP stopped working. So, MS$ made changes to the structure of the _400.wmdb, as compared to the Windows 7. And so far I cannot find any tool that would convert one .wmdb into another. Again, with the goal of migrating all my Music MP3s to Windows 10 Windows Media Player.

If anyone has ideas, please let me know.

TIA

>Hi,
>
>I started to RIP CDs into MP3 files using Windows Media Player. I created a folder on my PC, D:\Music and RIP CDs (I only did a couple for testing) into this folder. So far, this works on my PC.
>The question is, when I migrate to another PC I will XCOPY all files from the folder D:\Music to the folder of the same name and the same location. But the WMP on the other computer won't "know" where the MP3 files are.
>
>My understanding is that WMP uses some kind of a metadata file(s) that indicate where the MP3s are.
>
>Do you know the name of this metadata file and where it is located? So that I can test migrating to another PC.
>
>TIA