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You can use the Music View in the Music Library activity to manage and organize Music files in to different folders using the Music Toolbar, or the Edit menu options on the menu bar.

 

 

There are functions to Cut, Copy, Paste and Delete selected items from the Music View using the buttons on the Toolbar. You can use these functions together to move Music files from one folder to another.

 

To see how this works, the following example moves 20 Tracks from a folder called My Selections to a Folder we have named as Billie Holiday:-

 

First, we select the Music files from the displayed tracks in the Music View for the My Selections folder, by depressing the Shift button and dragging the mouse over each track in turn.  The selected Tracks are highlighted as shown in (1). You can use any of the Mouse and Keyboard selection commands to select the Tracks.

 

Next, we select the Copy button (2) on the Music toolbar to copy the selected items to the Clipboard. When items are copied or cut to the clipboard, the Clipboard Window (3) displays to show the current items in the Clipboard.  You can use the Delete or Empty button in the Clipboard Window to remove items in Clipboard storage.

 

Finally, we select the Billie Holiday Music folder from the Music sub-folders displayed in the navigation panel to the left of the Music view and select the Paste button (5) to copy the Music file collection (4) selected in the Clipboard Window to the Billie Holiday folder.   The newly copied Music files are displayed as Tracks in the Music View (6).

 

When you copy Tracks from the one folder to another, the music files for the tracks do not physically move to the new folder, unless you used the "Add Files to Library" or "Add and Remove Source" option when you used the Scan or Add Tracks action.  In both of the two cases, the files are physically moved in secured storage to the selected folder.  When you are referencing Music Files which are stored outside orchidmedia's secure storage, the reference record to the file is moved to the selected folder, and the physical location of the music files remains the same.

 

Selecting the Cut or Delete Actions from the toolbar or menu will remove the files selected from the Music Folder.  Again, if the tracks are only reference records to Music files stored outside of orchidmedia's secure storage system, the reference records are deleted, and the Music files in this case remain untouched.