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Title: Importing data into MusicBee
Post by: Spicefly on May 21, 2017, 09:51:28 PM

Hi

I have a ton of playcount and track rating that I can export to an xml file.  I would like to import this into MusicBee but it looks to be using a bespoke format? and not for example a sqlite database?  I was hoping for a simple column I could have matched and imported  ;D

Any suggestions on how to import the data?

Cheers

Title: Re: Importing data into MusicBee
Post by: boroda on May 24, 2017, 03:22:34 AM

manually parse your xml file, match xml data to tracks based on tags and write ratings to tracks. i'm afraid play counts are read-only in mb api.

Title: Re: Importing data into MusicBee
Post by: Steven on May 24, 2017, 07:10:06 AM

i made a change a while ago so playcounts (14) can be written to

Title: Re: Importing data into MusicBee
Post by: boroda on May 24, 2017, 10:20:16 AM

thanks, Steven. i'll change tag tools plugin according to this. the same for skip counts?

Title: Re: Importing data into MusicBee
Post by: redwing on May 24, 2017, 10:35:15 AM

Both fields are already writable with your plugin.

Title: Re: Importing data into MusicBee
Post by: boroda on May 24, 2017, 01:30:39 PM

i've already discovered this, but thanks anyway.

Title: Re: Importing data into MusicBee
Post by: Steven on May 24, 2017, 01:35:16 PM

Another approach is to create an iTunes formatted XML file, from which MB can import the ratings and play counts only via the File/ Library/ Import command (or something like that)

Title: Re: Importing data into MusicBee
Post by: Spicefly on May 30, 2017, 12:08:11 PM

Thanks for your help.  I did a proof of concept and managed to craft an iTunes XML file that MusicBee accepted and updated the library, so just in the process of writing a quick C# program to do the conversation of my source XML file to a suitable importable format.

Thanks for the steer :)