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Convert iTunes Playlist to Rhythmbox

Solution: get perl script from http://dwelle.org/eg/transferratingsperl.zip - written by Bowen Dwelle (apparently).  YOU... need to test this if you place any importance on your Rhythmbox setup.  I... do not.  If wreck my playlists and/or library, I'm OK with resyncing the media and starting over.  I don't anticipate any issues/problems, but I did not write the script.

Situation: I have multiple machines at home, each with a different purpose.
MacBook Pro: Music, Pictures, Netflix, etc... Valve/Steam games
IBM T520:  Mostly work type stuff.
iTunes 10.6.3
rhythmbox-0.12.8-1.el6.x86_64

 On the Mac I use iTunes to manage my music library, currently around 12,000 songs.  I think it is a very decent solution and meets all of my needs.  On my "PC", I run RHEL 6.3 and Rhythmbox.  (Rhythmbox is the only audio app I have managed to get working using RHEL with the standard repos.)

Issue:  Since my Lenovo is basically just a mirror of my Mac, I don't want to spend a ton of time managing the playlists on that machine, in addition to the Mac.  I was pleased to easily have found a solution that would rewrite the *.xml file for rhythmbox

Here are the EXACT steps, in a very repeatable procedure.
[jradtke@neo ~]$ rsync -urpolvv --size-only --delete morpheus-wlan:/Users/jradtke/Music/iTunes/iTunes\\\ Media/Music/ /home/jradtke/Music/

 <!app procedure -- BEGIN
start Rhythmbox
Click Edit | Preferences
Select the Music tab, select "Watch my library for new files"
Let it sort through everything...
Quit Rhythmbox
!app procedure -- END>
[jradtke@neo ~]$ cd
[jradtke@neo ~]$ mkdir Playlist-Conversion
[jradtke@neo ~]$ cd Playlist-Conversion/
[jradtke@neo Playlist-Conversion]$ wget http://dwelle.org/eg/transferratingsperl.zip
--2012-08-11 21:00:54--  http://dwelle.org/eg/transferratingsperl.zip
Resolving dwelle.org... 69.163.200.11
Connecting to dwelle.org|69.163.200.11|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2934 (2.9K) [application/zip]
Saving to: “transferratingsperl.zip”

 100%[============================================================================================================================>] 2,934       --.-K/s   in 0s      

 2012-08-11 21:00:55 (260 MB/s) - “transferratingsperl.zip” saved [2934/2934]

 [jradtke@neo Playlist-Conversion]$ unzip transferratingsperl.zip
Archive:  transferratingsperl.zip
  inflating: transferratings.pl      
[jradtke@neo Playlist-Conversion]$ scp morpheus-wlan:Music/iTunes/iTunes\\\ Music\\\ Library.xml ./
iTunes Music Library.xml                                                                                                            100%   19MB   1.1MB/s   00:18    
[jradtke@neo Playlist-Conversion]$ find ~ -name rhythmdb.xml
/home/jradtke/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml
[jradtke@neo Playlist-Conversion]$ ./transferratings.pl ./iTunes\ Music\ Library.xml /home/jradtke/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml
Parsing iTunes Library...
Parsing Rhythmbox Library...
Backing up Rhythmbox database...
Writing new Rhythmbox database...
[jradtke@neo Playlist-Conversion]$ grep \>Rating\< iTunes\ Music\ Library.xml  | egrep '80|100' | wc -l
446

[jradtke@neo Playlist-Conversion]$ rpm -qa | grep ^rhythmbox
rhythmbox-0.12.8-1.el6.x86_64

If you now start up Rhythmbox and look at "My Top Rated" playlist, you should see 446 files.

NOTES:
I will update this post if I discover any issues.  The one thing that impresses me is how well it works without modification.  In particular, the following:
on my Mac the path to my Music is the ridiculous path
/Users/jradtke/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music
whereas, the path on my RHEL host is
/home/jradtke/Music 



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  1. netdude27August 18, 2016 at 1:40 PM

    Do I need the iTunes Music Library.xml file to do this?

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    1. CrashAugust 18, 2016 at 2:56 PM

      Yes - You will need your iTunes Music Library.xml

      I'm actually pretty horrible at writing these things (I just discovered).
      The newer versions of iTunes do some nonsense with Album Ratings, etc... which pretty much render this process useless.
      I posted a newer entry (which I will update when I am home with the name of the AppleScript)
      http://unixrevolution.blogspot.com/2016/08/convert-itunes-to-rhythmbox-2016.html

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    2. netdude27August 18, 2016 at 4:56 PM

      When I get to my notebook running Mac OS X 10.6.8, I'll copy it to my Linux machine.
      Thank you.

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