[X4U] how do I sync iTunes ratings between machines?

Allan Hise allan at hise.org
Sat Oct 1 04:43:54 PDT 2005


Great for the files, but will these deal with the ratings & play counts?
That's what the OP is interested in.

Allan


On 30 Sep 2005, at 22:16 , Achim Franz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> if you want to spend some money, there is software around that  
> backups and syncs folders like:
>
> http://qdea.com/pages/pages-sync/sync2.html
> http://qdea.com/pages/pages-sprox/sprox1.html
>
> the second makes even bootable backups of your disk.
>
> I use this for exactly that purpose, I keep my complete music  
> library on an external disk and some stuff on my laptop.
>
> Achim
>
> On Sep 30, 2005, at 15:34:25, Hector Luna wrote:
>
>
>> I posted this on the iTunes list, but so far no one's responded, so I
>> thought I'd try here.
>> --
>> I have some 40GB of MP3s on my B&W tower. For portability's sake, I
>> only copied about 3GB to my Powerbook. I've also added about 2GB of
>> new music to the Powerbook that is not on the tower.
>>
>> Over the last few months I've rated almost all of the music on the
>> Powerbook, most of which was never rated on the tower. I want to  
>> start
>> copying the new music to the tower soon, and I also want to copy all
>> the ratings back onto the tower, overwriting whatever was there
>> before. I'm not sure how to go about it.
>>
>> I looked in Doug's AppleScripts, but didn't see anything that
>> addressed this. I can see the ratings when I export the song list to
>> Unicode text then open the file in Excel.
>>
>> Has anyone done this? Any ideas?
>>
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