Importing collection data from 1.4 to 2.2.0

[Chris Joelly]

Hi,

thanks for your effort :) but i switched to Exaile because Amarok2 has
some other serious bugs and usability problems which i found annoying.

Chris

On Mit, Dez 16, 2009, Alan Ezust wrote:
> Doh.
> make that
> 
> http://lazarus.homelinux.net/share/ratingMigrate.tar.gz
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Forget the last e-mail, with the attachment. Here is a URL to a better
>     tarball that contains a readme too.
> 
>     http://localhost/share/ratingMigrate.tar.gz
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>         When I upgraded from 1.4 to 2.2, I think i tried every possible
>         combination of copy/import/rescan and never got ratings in properly.
> 
>         So I wrote another program that scanned my 1.4 db and inserted the
>         missing ratings into a 2.2 db.
>         I was kinda curious to know how the new schema differed in any case.
> 
>         I will attach the code that did it to this e-mail. I hope it helps some
>         others too.
> 
> 
>         On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Chris Joelly <chris-m-lists at joelly.net
>         > wrote:
> 
>             Hello!
> 
>             i have upgraded to 2.2.0 and finally get used to the new version ;)
> 
>             but i have a question regarding importing the data from 1.4:
> 
>             i thought that "Importing collection" will import all data from my
>             previous collection, but, as i read a thread from october on this
>             list
>             this is not the case. I catched on that thread that i have to
>             rescan my
>             collection from filesystem in any case.
> 
>             So, if i understood if correct, the best way to import the data is:
> 
>             1. scan the filesystem
>             2. import the statistics
> 
>             hm. in 1.4 i used mysql to store data about my collection. and i
>             want to
>             use mysql again with 2.2.
> 
>             how to deal with the database issue in this context?
> 
>             the 1.4 scheme seems to be updated and useless for 2.2, so i can
>             safely
>             throw away the 1.4 db and create a new one for 2.2? I think no, the
>             old
>             db is needed for accessing parts of the old statistics?
> 
>             but i have to create a new database for the 2.2 db scheme upfront
>             and
>             configure the connection details before point 1, scanning the
>             filesystem?
> 
>             is this the way the upgrade w.r.t the statistics should work
>             smoothly?
> 
>             thx
> 
>             Chris
> 
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