Amarok 2 transition from 1.x

[Seb Ruiz]

On 01/04/2008, Luis Pabón <copong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Seb,
>
> I'll be delighted on helping on whatever I can, my C++ skills are very rusty
> but I can help out perhaps testing, and I do have some knowledge on
> databases. What tz are you on?

I'm writing the script in Ruby, actually. Located in Sydney, AU.

Are you subscribed to the mailing list?


>
> Cheers,
> Luis
>
> On 01/04/2008, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> > 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/
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Luis Pabón
> _______________________________________________
>  Amarok mailing list
>  Amarok at kde.org
>  https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok
>
>


-- 
Seb Ruiz

http://www.sebruiz.net/