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

By: Guido

Guido — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:45:42 +0000

With me it does not work :-(
It seams that he has updated to python so i enterd this:
python transferRatings-0.8.1.py /home/guido/itunes.xml /home/guido/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xmlg

but with the last g i get an error. without not. i even get the messag “done” but in rhythembox is nothing to see :-(

By: Marcos

Marcos — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:09:55 +0000

marcos@marcos-laptop:~$ sudo perl Desktop/transferratings.pl Desktop/iTunesLibrary.xml /usr/share/gnome/help/rhythmbox/C/rhythmbox.xml
Parsing iTunes Library…
Parsing Rhythmbox Library…
Out of memory!
marcos@marcos-laptop:~$

took me like 45 minutes and didn’t work.

tried to do what Ankush said, but I quite don’t get it exactly

By: Ankush

Ankush — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:38:00 +0000

DUDE!! you rock!! it still works! i’ve just started using ubuntu. and i thought with all these new versions it just might not work.
rhythmbox 0.13.1
ubuntu 10.10

of course, it was tough for a newbie like me.

for ppl having problems – this is how i accomplished it.
location of rhythmdb.xml had been changed to home/.local/share/rhythmbox/

didn’t even knew how to open a terminal and change directory and on top of it’s case sensitive.
to open terminal ctrl+alt+f1
to change directory = cd path

first of all : import all the songs to your rhythmbox.
then edit itunes music library : find and replace “localhost/D:” with “media or something” and if you have songs in host then replace “localhost/c:” with host. you can look up in the rhythmdb.xml – how it specifies the path. and just make itunes.xml to look like that.

and then finally run perl transferratings.pl (blah blah blah)

and you’ll see your top rated songs in rhythmbox player.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:15:03 +0000

Great tutorial! One issue I had was that I assumed the script would also import the iTunes files into the Rhythmbox library. Not so. You have to import the iTunes music folder (from the Windows partition) into Rhythmbox first, exit, and then run the script. Also, for those looking for a better “iTunes” like experience in Linux can use Songbird. It is essentially a clone of iTunes and will import an iTunes library with ID3 Tags including ratings.

By: mpevec

mpevec — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:27:04 +0000

You’re the king.

Proven on:
-Ubuntu 4.10 LTS
-Rhythmbox 0.12.8
-iItunes.xml with 30.000 files…(:

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 !