Aye, I apologise about that, I clicked on "reply" as opossed to "reply to all" lol<br><br>I'm located in London, I can connect to IRC from 18:00 onwards (6h from now).<br><br>I can do some ruby as well.<br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 01/04/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Seb Ruiz</b> <<a href="mailto:ruiz@kde.org">ruiz@kde.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 01/04/2008, Luis Pabón <<a href="mailto:copong@gmail.com">copong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br>> Hi Seb,<br> ><br> > I'll be delighted on helping on whatever I can, my C++ skills are very rusty<br> > but I can help out perhaps testing, and I do have some knowledge on<br>
> databases. What tz are you on?<br> <br> <br>I'm writing the script in Ruby, actually. Located in Sydney, AU.<br> <br> Are you subscribed to the mailing list?<br> <br><br> <br> ><br> > Cheers,<br> > Luis<br>
><br> > On 01/04/2008, Seb Ruiz <<a href="mailto:ruiz@kde.org">ruiz@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br> > > Hi Luis,<br> > > I'm actively working on a script to migrate the database statistics.<br> > > For now, simply playcounts, listen dates, score and ratings.<br>
> ><br> > > if you want to help me out, contact me on irc: sebr @ #amarok :<br> > > <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a><br> > ><br> > > Seb<br> > ><br> > ><br>
> > On 01/04/2008, Luis Pabón <<a href="mailto:copong@gmail.com">copong@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > > > Hi guys,<br> > > ><br> > > > I posted this yesterday at the dot, and I was advised to perhaps come<br>
> over<br> > > > to the list too, so I apologise if anyone has read it already.<br> > > ><br> > > > Amarok is my favorite audio app ever. IMO much better than iTunes, not<br> > only<br> > > > in features, but also in performance, specially with large music<br>
> libraries.<br> > > ><br> > > > There is one thing that for me has been flaky through all these years<br> > (and<br> > > > I've been using Amarok since 0.x), and that's the collection management,<br>
> > > specifically safeguarding this data.<br> > > ><br> > > > Sometimes when updating from 1.x to 1.x+1 the collections got wiped<br> > out. Or<br> > > > certain scripts can bugger up your collection (mp3fixer does this for<br>
> me,<br> > > > after fixing a file it rescans the collection and somehow it loses 20%<br> > of<br> > > > the tracks; how is this allowed to happen?).<br> > > ><br> > > > If you change the partition where you store your music files, they won't<br>
> > > appear anymore on the collection, unless you rescan (which sometimes<br> > loses<br> > > > all your playcounts and ratings) or hack into the database to modify<br> > UUIDs<br> > > > in a few places. Mind you, unless you use MySQL there is no quick and<br>
> easy<br> > > > way of doing this in sqlite.<br> > > ><br> > > > There is also no easy way of backing up the collection database<br> > > > (images&database itself). There is a script at Amarok's wiki that I<br>
> edited<br> > > > sometime ago to dump the database (MySQL) and amarok's config, but<br> > that's<br> > > > it.<br> > > ><br> > > > I've got a 16K songs collection, and around 6K of them are rated<br>
> > > (manually). This is a huge amount of work, however it does pay off when<br> > > > using them dynamic playlists :)<br> > > ><br> > > > So I'm concerned about the migration from 1.x to 2.x. Will it respect<br>
> all my<br> > > > ratings? What about the album covers (many of them added manually, being<br> > > > copyleft music you won't find them in Amazon)? Playlists, iPod<br> > > > configuration, <a href="http://Last.fm">Last.fm</a> settings... ? In short, has this process been<br>
> thought<br> > > > of and streamlined already? Is there a stablished migration path? I do<br> > > > realise that the tech preview I tried two months ago was a bit too<br> > green,<br> > > > but I tried simply copying over Amarok folders etc and it didn't work...<br>
> > ><br> > > > Many thanks,<br> > > > Luis Pabón<br> > ><br> > > > _______________________________________________<br> > > > Amarok mailing list<br> > > > <a href="mailto:Amarok@kde.org">Amarok@kde.org</a><br>
> > > <a href="https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok">https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok</a><br> > > ><br> > > ><br> > ><br> > ><br> > ><br> > > --<br>
> > Seb Ruiz<br> > ><br> > > <a href="http://www.sebruiz.net/">http://www.sebruiz.net/</a><br> > ><br> ><br> ><br> ><br> > --<br> > Luis Pabón<br> > _______________________________________________<br>
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<br> <br> --<br> Seb Ruiz<br> <br> <a href="http://www.sebruiz.net/">http://www.sebruiz.net/</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Luis Pabón