Sync Amarok

[Alan Ezust]

I wanted a way of making my ratings persistent in Amarok, so that I
could re-import them on another machine and see the same ratings. I
decided to write them to id3v2 tags in MusicMatch Jukebox. I have a
separate tool that does the tagging and importing into a mysql
database, so I had round-trip data import/export.

http://oop.mcs.suffolk.edu/docs/src/mmjbamarok/mmjbamarok.html


Unfortunately, I noticed recently, that when I use Amarok to tag
things, it seems to clobber the extended tag info that was written by
MMJB, so that future times I want to import the mp3 file into
musicmatch, I have to re-enter artist/track#/title/genre again. Very
annoying. So round-trip syncing is not working for me anymore,  due to
some weird taglib bugs. I will have to investigate further when I have
time.

It is annoying that there is no option to let amarok store the rating
persistently as an extended tag. Maybe some people don't want it, but
I sure do.


On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 5:17 PM, Craig Ross
<craig at ventexwebdesigns.com.au> wrote:
> Hi i have a one server with samba and mysql installed, i then mount the
> music folder using samba in the same location on every machine and then
> point the mysl database at the servers ip address.
>
> This works fine for the desktop machines but for my notebook i want my music
> and amarok on the run so i have started using RSYNC to sync my music folder
> to my laptop and i have written a MYSQL dump (a script that dumps the whole
> data base to a text file on my laptop) and then import that text file to my
> laptops MYSQL (this last bit is largely untested)
>
> One thing to note: If i make any changes to the database on my laptop those
> changes are not forced back to the media server
>
> Thats just my hack job, there is prob a thousand reasons why you shouldnt do
> it
>
>
> Craig Ross
>
> On 11/1/07, Arvid Piehl Lauritsen Böttiger <arvid at fys.ku.dk> wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> Right now I'm copying all my music from my desktop to my laptop. But
>> since I spend the last year labeling/rating/organising my music I
>> would like to also transfer that. My guess would be I could just copy
>> my .kde/share/apps/amarok/ folder, and create an symlink from the
>> location where my music is on my desktop to the actual music folder.
>>
>> Will this work? And isn't there a better way of transferring all my
>> other data than the actual music.
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Arvid Böttiger
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>
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