Author Topic: Export and import radio stations oddities  (Read 1939 times)

moorpipe

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MusicBee has a nice feature to export all radio stations in an opml formatted file. This can be very handy (e.g. backup). However, it seems that not all fields are preserved. So, when you import the opml file you just have exported valuable information is lost.

The opml file contains for each station the following data in <outline>:
text=[station name]
description=[description]
category=[genre][format][bitrate]
type=[seems to be always "link"]
url=[stream url]

The following is missing:
"home page url"
"category" (note: this is not the same as the beforementioned category)
"rating"
"picture url"
In addition there also 3 settings not copied over.

Secondly, it would be nice to extend the list with language, network, region, country and state, and perhaps one or two custom fields.

I'm using version: 2.4.5324