Re: [Banshee-List] Cleaning DB after moving music

[Michael Martin-Smucker <mlmartin13 gmail com>]

Paul,

Play Counts and Ratings can be saved to the music files (in addition to the database) so that you wouldn't have to lose those sorts of things if your library changes locations.  Off the top of my head, I think the option is something like Edit > Preferences > Write Ratings and Playcounts to File, or something along those lines.  I don't remember if this does a one-time writing out of all of that data, or if it doesn't get written to the file until the song is played (or skipped?), though.  And even with this option, I don't think Skip Count can be written to the file, which means you would probably lose all Scores as well.

On a related note, it would be spectacularly awesome if, when rescanning the library, Banshee could compare the songs-to-be-removed with the songs-to-be-added and preserve ratings/plays/skips/score/etc for obvious duplicates.  This would make changing the location of the music library much less painful.

Michael

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brian Lucas <bcl1713 gmail com> wrote:

You could get a graphical database editor and replace the paths in the original files with the new paths. Would be quite a pain but you'd maintain you ratings and pay counts etc.

On Dec 9, 2010 1:40 PM, "Paul Smith" <paul mad-scientist net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 15:14 +0100, Bertrand Lorentz wrote:
>> I think there's another way to remove the tracks from the old location
>> : the file location can be displayed in the track list and you can
>> search or sort by this field.
>> So you should be able to find all tracks that still refer to the old
>> location, select them all, right-click and select the "Remove from
>> Library".
>
> Heh. Tricky! Nice idea; I'll give it a try tonight.
>
> Of course now I've realized that when I do this I'll lose all my ratings
> anyway. Ugh.
>
> I really lament the fact that Banshee ties all the ratings[1] to the
> filesystem location. That just seems wrong to me. Those things should
> tied to a track, as a concept. If I move a track to a different
> location on my disk I want to keep my ratings. If I re-rip or convert
> the track to a different format (OGG vs. MP3 or whatever), I want to
> keep my ratings. Even things like editing the album title on the disk
> (for example to remove that annoying "[Explicit]" tag that Amazon adds
> or whatever) should not cause me to lose all my ratings--this one is
> much harder I grant you.
>
> Heck, if I listen to my music on a different system I'd like to transfer
> all my ratings.
>
> Has anyone ever tried to come up with and/or standardize on some format
> for transferring this data, kind of like a v-card for songs, or
> something, that all different music apps could (aspire to) support?
>
>
>
> -----
> [1] When I say "ratings" I of course mean all my track metadata
> including play counts, skip counts, ratings, and scores.
>
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