Amarok 1.4 collection and artwork importing

[Jeff Mitchell]

Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 October 2009 21:58:21 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Pedro de Carvalho Gomes wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> All the issues I'm describing here are related to Amarok 2.2 truck,
>> We have a truck!?!?!
>>
>>> The first issue is about the import of my collection from Amarok 1.4.
>>> It imports only part of my collection (1604 out of 3400 musics). I've
>>> checked the source code
>>> (src/databaseimporter/amarok14/FastForwardWorker.cpp), and I see that
>>> the SQL query trusts the information presented at the "statistics"
>>> table. The thing is that "statistics" table contains information of
>>> music that has been played at least once. So, if a song has never been
>>> played it would not be imported.
>> I don't follow why this is a problem. I guess you could have ratings for
>> songs that have never been played, but that seems kinda unlikely.
> 
>   On the contrary, that's a perfectly valid use case. Look at it this way: You 
> just got a hold of a track that you know you like (say Brittney Spears' Oops, 
> I Did It Again ;) ), and you happen to know that you would rate that song at 5 
> stars. Now, of course, that song hasn't been played, but... :)

I didn't say it wasn't a valid use case, I said it wasn't likely  :-)

But I think Leo is right -- I think he's simply not understanding what
the converter is supposed to do.

--Jeff

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