Amarok 2 transition from 1.x

[Seb Ruiz]

Hi Luis,
I'm actively working on a script to migrate the database statistics.
For now, simply playcounts, listen dates, score and ratings.

if you want to help me out, contact me on  irc: sebr @ #amarok :
irc.freenode.net

Seb

On 01/04/2008, Luis Pabón <copong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I posted this yesterday at the dot, and I was advised to perhaps come over
> to the list too, so I apologise if anyone has read it already.
>
> Amarok is my favorite audio app ever. IMO much better than iTunes, not only
> in features, but also in performance, specially with large music libraries.
>
>  There is one thing that for me has been flaky through all these years (and
> I've been using Amarok since 0.x), and that's the collection management,
> specifically safeguarding this data.
>
>  Sometimes when updating from 1.x to 1.x+1 the collections got wiped out. Or
> certain scripts can bugger up your collection (mp3fixer does this for me,
> after fixing a file it rescans the collection and somehow it loses 20% of
> the tracks; how is this allowed to happen?).
>
> If you change the partition where you store your music files, they won't
> appear anymore on the collection, unless you rescan (which sometimes loses
> all your playcounts and ratings) or hack into the database to modify UUIDs
> in a few places. Mind you, unless you use MySQL there is no quick and easy
> way of doing this in sqlite.
>
> There is also no easy way of backing up the collection database
> (images&database itself). There is a script at Amarok's wiki that I edited
> sometime ago to dump the database (MySQL) and amarok's config, but that's
> it.
>
>  I've got a 16K songs collection, and around 6K of them are rated
> (manually). This is a huge amount of work, however it does pay off when
> using them dynamic playlists :)
>
> So I'm concerned about the migration from 1.x to 2.x. Will it respect all my
> ratings? What about the album covers (many of them added manually, being
> copyleft music you won't find them in Amazon)? Playlists, iPod
> configuration, Last.fm settings... ? In short, has this process been thought
> of and streamlined already? Is there a stablished migration path? I do
> realise that the tech preview I tried two months ago was a bit too green,
> but I tried simply copying over Amarok folders etc and it didn't work...
>
> Many thanks,
> Luis Pabón
> _______________________________________________
>  Amarok mailing list
>  Amarok at kde.org
>  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
>
>


-- 
Seb Ruiz

http://www.sebruiz.net/