Syncing itunes and amarok database

[Ian Monroe]

All Amarok stores in the database is statistics. Last time played, how
many times played, the score etc. You probably wouldn't want to share
this with your wife anyways.

The database also stores the ID3 tags, but this is really more of a
cache to make things faster. The file is the ultimate authority on
artist name, album title etc.

So really what your looking for is some file sharing solution.
Couldn't the Mac somehow share files with your Linux box?

Ian Monroe

On 3/14/07, Corrin Lakeland <Corrin.Lakeland at datamine.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have one music collection which I share with my wife. I have amarok on
> my computer, it works great.  My wife has iTunes on her computer, it
> works great.
> I would like to avoid duplicating the collection on each computer,
> mostly so a fix of ID3 tags on one computer gets transparently sent to
> the other.
>
> The problem I've got is that both amarok and iTunes store loads of
> information outside the file's ID3 tags.  In iTunes' case, it is some
> sort of flat file, and in amarok's case it is a MySQL database.  So, my
> question is how do I keep them in sync? Currently I rsync --delete from
> the mac to the linux computer which means the changes on the linux
> computer get lost.  Is there any way to do things so I can change ID3
> information, add lyrics, add artwork, etc. in amarok and have it show up
> in iTunes?
>
> I don't think DAAP is a solution because AFAICT it makes everything
> readonly which would prevent my wife creating playlists.  However, if
> there is a way of adding full read/write that might be a possibility.
> Similarly, I don't currently have the repositories combined by NFS after
> seeing what happens in iTunes if an NFS share is unavailable but would
> be happy to share (in either direction) if that helped.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Corrin
>
> PS: I suppose Amarok 2 will work on the mac, so if I can't find a
> solution I will try that out when it is released and see if it is good
> enough to ditch iTunes.
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