Sync Amarok

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

More likely then a taglib bug, MMJB probably doesn't support id3v2.4.

> 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.
>