On 15/10/2012 07:35, mouse- wrote:
> Hey, so I use Banshee 2.4.1 with Ubuntu 12.10 {quantal quetzal} and have a
> partition of my hard drive which runs Windows {and has iTunes}. I have been
> trying to copy my music library to the Windows half of my computer and
> import it into iTunes, but every time I do this, the music tags are horribly
> messed up {for example, 50 songs will be listed as the same song by the same
> artist and usually only about 5 of them will actually be by that artist}. I
> have changed my preferences to sync the metadata and opened "edit track
> information" with my entire library selected and held down alt-f for a
> while, then repeated the file copy and re-imported into iTunes but this did
> not solve the problem. I have found endless online documentation on how to
> switch music libraries from iTunes to banshee, but not the other way around.
> While I understand that there's probably not a large number of reasons to
> want to pull this switch in reverse, I have an iPod touch 4G with iOS 6 on
> it which will not sync with Banshee without jailbreaking and I feel like it
> hasn't been long enough since the release of iOS 6 to trust any program
> claiming to be able to jailbreak my iPod. Basically, I'm wondering if
> anyone knows a way to a. write metadata to my music files using the
> information Banshee is using, b. sync the two libraries via DAAP or
> something along those lines, or c. somehow magically get past the iTunes
> database locks without jailbreaking.
a. Banshee automatically writes metadata to the files for me with the "Sync
metadata between library and files" option checked, but only when something
changes, I believe.
You could try something like
http://askubuntu.com/questions/102414/how-do-i-force-writing-of-metadata-out-to-files-in-banshee
to get it to work, but you'll lose the comments in all files in your library.
b. Tangerine is a pretty okay DAAP server that has support for digging out files
from Banshee's library. You could probably use that to host your library and
import it into iTunes. It won't work in reverse though, because newer versions
of iTunes encrypt the protocol, so Banshee can't access iTunes libraries via
DAAP. You'll probably need two machines for this, or at least a virtual machine
unless you can get Tangerine (and its Banshee backend) to run on Windows.
--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin
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