Comments on: Import iTunes Library into Rhythmbox (Ratings and Playcounts included)

By: claytron

claytron — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:21:04 +0000

I ran the Perl script against my rhythmdb.xml and it almost worked perfectly. The only issue I had was that the dates ended up being 1934-1939 instead of 2004-2009. I don’t know Perl, so I didn’t look into it.

One thing I had to do was make sure the path of the songs in my iTunes xml file was the same as the Rhythmbox xml file. I was switching from OS X to linux, so the volumes/DRIVENAME needed to be media/DRIVENAME (at least on Arch Linux). I just used vim to do a search and replace.

By: lisandro

lisandro — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:53:39 +0000

btw I tried both the perl script and didn’t work, replaced the xml with the back up and tried again with the python script which didn’t work either

By: lisandro

lisandro — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:52:43 +0000

I followed the tutorial and I still have no ratings s= I’m desperate it’ll take me a life to rate each song again, I’m about to give up, if I rate them again will I be able to retain the ratings this time If I decide to move to another player? I followed the tutorial and the code backed up the library and supposedly updated the ratings I mean everything seemed to be right, I mean I didn’t mess up but the ratings still not show DAMN

By: Oliver Treend

Oliver Treend — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:24:10 +0000

Hey

Cheers for the excellent how-to. I’ve been looking for something that would enable me to do just this.

My only problem is… while running the Python script, I get the following error: Ran out of memory for input buffer at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser/Expat.pm line 469.

My itunes.xml file is 7.5 megabytes – I guess this is too much for my setup of Python to handle? I’m sure there’s a config setting that I can tweak to get it working, but to be honest I’m not too fussed in the end.

It’s a shame though, because it looked like a pretty neat way of doing things.

I’m running Ubuntu 9.10 in case you were wondering.

Cheers for the article anyway.

Oliver

By: rish

rish — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:15:30 +0000

hey i can’t get this to work on the ubuntu jaunty because the paths are different are think. ‘B3to’ can you tell me please what changes you did?? or email me at rish000@hotmail.com! id greatly appreciate it !

By: B3to

B3to — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:31:32 +0000

Thanks Works very well in ubuntu jaunty, only change a few of lines in the script.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:08:22 +0000

Hi Chris!

Thx for the feedback, I edited the post now.

Glad it helped!

Nathan.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:27:36 +0000

This is great! Thanks a lot for this description. But you missed to type the name of the Perl script itself :D I first did not recognize and started Perl with the xml files as parameters and it threw a lot of errors. But when I started the script with the xml files it worked fine :)

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:11:01 +0000

Thanks Mike for your feedback. I must say I cannot confirm this as none of the songs I had in my library had ratings before I ran the script.

Still, I’m glad it worked for you and thanks again for sharing your feedback with us!

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:26:37 +0000

Note: the python script fails if the rhythmbox db file doesn’t have ratings for each song already. Once I added a rating of 1 to each song, then re-ran the script, my ratings xfer’d over from iTunes.