[iTunes] importing ratings into new library

[johnsandiego at mac.com]

It's really quite easy. Assuming you have the same mp3 files on the new 
machine.

1. In your "Music" folder, open the "iTunes" folder
2. You will see two files "iTunes 3 Music Library" and "itunes Music 
Library.xml"
3. If both machines are on a network, just move these two files to the 
corresponding folder in the new machine and they will be copied i the 
new location, star ratings, play counts and all the other fields. (I'm 
not sure if you have to copy the .xml file or not but it won't hurt).
4. If your machines are not networked, you need to make copies of the 
two files and move them via some removable media to the new machine.

I routinely move music libraries back and forth between my five (yeah, 
I'm a bona fide geek) Macs and they work quite well (My music is on a 
shared hard drive so all machines can access.

Hope tis helps,  John
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On Wednesday, Mar 5, 2003, at 16:21 US/Pacific, Praveen Soora wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is my first mail to this group, so if this question is already 
> answered please forgive me. I have two macs and i copied all the songs 
> from one computer to another, but i could not get the ratings i made 
> for more than 1000 songs. I read few emails that explains to import 
> iTunes 3 Music Library database and xml files but they didn't solve 
> this problem. I have also copied plist files into preferences folder. 
> Can anyone tell me how we can import the ratings ?
>
> Thanks,
> Soora
>
>
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