Sync Amarok

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Wednesday 02 July 2008, Ian Monroe wrote:
> 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.

Use eyeD3 after tagging with MMJB to find out what version of id3v2 it's 
writing.

If it's id3v2.3, you won't get any help from the taglib guys.  id3v2.4 is 
eight years old and there's no excuse for players not to support it.

--Jeff