Re: [Banshee-List] MusicBrainzID in CoreTracks

["Gabriel Burt" <gabriel burt gmail com>]

2008/12/30 Johannes Steidl <johannes jsteidl net>:
> i am trying to produce a little script in PHP in order to migrate all
> ratings done in Rhythmbox to Banshee 1.4.1 (or any other version if
> there are no changes in the dblayout). This is a private project (feel
> free to get the source when its ready, though!) and not meant to replace
> anything in banshee.
>
> I was using the absolute path of each file as identifier, but i
> discovered that rhythmbox has a populated xml-key for a musicbrainzid in
> its database-file. so does banshee, but unfortunately the column
> MusicBrainzID in CoreTracks is not populated (or just giving
> whitespaces).
>
> to come to the point of this post: is there a way to enable banshee to
> write the MBId to the database? if so: please point me in the right
> direction.

We have a Rhythmbox importer patch that migrates the rating - see
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554511

The last patch attached there will be part of the next major Banshee
release, but you should be able to build 1.4.1 or svn trunk with it.

Gabriel