[Banshee-List] Duplicate songs & iTunes import

["Lewis, Bobby" <bobby+banshee queerlydigital com>]

A recent computer crash corrupted my Banshee database which had been
working fine. I'm on Karmic Koala Ubuntu with Banshee 1.5.3. I now know
to nightly backup my Banshee database under ~/.config/ ...
unfortunately I didn't have a backup before! :-)

So, I tried Tools->Rescan Music Library. Great, but no ratings.
I can connect my iPod and pull the songs over, and that works...but
only when the iPod is hooked up. Even though a right click on a song in
Banshee shows the Properties as having the file path on the system,
it's really playing the file from the iPod. Same thing if I export a
playlist from the iPod and then import it. 

Next I went to my old PC iTunes library. I only switched to Ubuntu
a month or so ago so I'm not losing too many ratings. I can't get
Banshee to like my file path for the Location tag in my iTunes library
xml file no matter what I try. I always get "Unable tomap iTunes URI to
local URI"

The path looked something like this before:

            <key>Location</key><string>

file://localhost//JERRI/music/Adiemus/Songs%20of%20Sanctuary/01%20-%20Adiemus.mp3</string>

Our Linux server Jerri (which shared the songs over SMB) was where I had iTunes pointed.

I've got the songs mounted now on /jerri/music/

I've tried:

file://localhost/jerri/music/
/jerri/music/
file:///jerri/music/
etc.

with no luck. How can I import my Windows iTunes library onto Banshee on Ubuntu, *or* reload the library and find some other way to restore the ratings? I've scoured the web & support forums and haven't found anything yet.

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Bobby