Amarok 2 transition from 1.x

[Seb Ruiz]

On 01/04/2008, Luis Pabón <copong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aye, I apologise about that, I clicked on "reply" as opossed to "reply to
> all" lol
>
> I'm located in London, I can connect to IRC from 18:00 onwards (6h from
> now).

Okay, we'll that's the middle of the night for me :)

>
> I can do some ruby as well.

That's good, because I can't and I'm using this as a learning exercise
and I'm failing miserably :)


>
>
> On 01/04/2008, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
> > 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
> > > >
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> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Seb Ruiz
> > > >
> > > > http://www.sebruiz.net/
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Luis Pabón
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> >
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> > Seb Ruiz
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Luis Pabón


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