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Restoring Library Settings from MC Windows in MC Linux Mint 18.1 Serena?

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globetrotters1:
Hi there,
1) I just installed Linux Mint 18.1 Serena and wanted to restore my settings from my Windows version (which by the way is highly customized). The Program freezes... I just wanted to restore my settings, nothing else - not the library itself which is of course different because of the path. Yesterday I ran a Library Import, 400'000 music tracks, which finished successfully after 6 hours. Restore possible or not?
In the meantime I found out that it restored my zones (without showing them in my left vertical bar...), but custom library fields, specially designed left tree items are nowhere. The import reports 'successful', but at least half the settings are missing. Oh yes and: there is a little window with something like 'Library import working' or so, for endless time. After an hour or so I xkill'ed my MC program and restarted
2) My OK button in Audio settings crashes the MC program, it simply disappears. How do I change these settings? I read in another post that someone reported this problem and it has been found out that in the next update it will be fixed. It seems that no update is still available for Mint, still version 93... when will it be available?
Thanks for making this program available on Linux!!! Love it!!! Was the only program I waited for to get into a mature state
Thanks for a quick help

blgentry:
I'm not 100% sure, but I think restoring settings across different platforms isn't supported.  Coincidentally, just recently I installed MC22 on Raspbian (Raspberry Pi Linux).  I then restored my MC22 library backup that I made on my Mac.  "Settings restore" was checked by default and I pressed OK.  It finished, but it messed up MC and I mean really messed it up.  The display and menus became unusable.  I think it had restored a high DPI setting (Retina mode) from the Mac version and the Linux version didn't like that at all.  I'm not really 100% sure.

In the end I had to delete ~/.jriver to get it reset back to normal.  Then I restored my backup file again, but this time I unchecked the settings button.  This worked like a champ and I got to see my whole library from my Mac.  After I changed the paths using the RM&C tool, everything worked as expected.

But I've had to do my settings one by one as I remember them.  No big deal.

Brian.

Awesome Donkey:
Well, settings will likely work, depending if they're supported on Linux (or Mac for that matter). The biggest issue you'll encounter is if you have a library full of files using Windows paths (which aren't supported without conversion, which can be VERY time consuming) - in that case you'd probably be better off restoring settings (but not the library and playlists) and manually re-importing everything. You'd likely have to change paths for everything else in MC's Options (encoding, ripping, conversion cache, temp files, library backups, etc),

But yeah, for cross-platform I typically write down the settings I use on Windows, then deploy them for Linux and Mac after properly mounting the drive(s) in each.

blgentry:

--- Quote from: Awesome Donkey on June 12, 2017, 01:20:07 pm ---The biggest issue you'll encounter is if you have a library full of files using Windows paths (which aren't supported without conversion, which can be VERY time consuming) [...]

--- End quote ---

Using the Glynor method might be the fastest way if you have that issue.  Namely to export an MPL playlist of your entire library, then post process that list to convert the paths, and finally to import this playlist into your target system.  What's neat about this procedure is that it grabs ALL of the metadata that exists for your source library:  Play counts, date imported, etc.  Because all of that gets put into the MPL file.

Brian.

globetrotters1:
No, I don't restore the whole library, I know the paths are different.

But re 'settings': I have special library fields defined, many special views defined - can really say this is NOT 'no deal' - it is a bigger deal, print out all the settings in Win and entering the whole setup in Linux --- days! If you have a standard MC, then it's of course no deal at all. Not for nothing I have 400'000 music tracks and tweaked MC a lot in the past. But that's the price I pay porting my whole network to Linux, because I'm just sick of the constant Windows mess.

And no, restoring library settings simply doesn't work in Mint 18.1.

So let's go to work... :)

Thanks

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