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[laerm]

Hi -

I just moved to Linux from Windows and I've had some issues getting my library imported. The only way it would recognize my files and their path was if I added them all anew.* I lost all my play stats and playlists. Playlists I can laboriously move over by dumping them from the old library in Windows, but the stats are gone. I should be able to move in the `field (number plays).jmd` file and so on, but I don't know where they are in Linux and I can't find them. Help? Thanks!

Micah

* The Move / Rename Files dialog is incomplete in some ways: it will allow you to swap the backslashes to slashes, but it doesn't allow you to change a path starting with a drive letter to a *nix path (i.e. my files used to be X:\Music\[Artist]\[Album] but I can't change the X:\Music aspect because Linux MC doesn't recognize that a backslash in a path would be valid for not-Linux).

[sekrit]

Sorry to say this but JRiver makes it almost impossible to transfer playlists from Linux to Window and vice versa.  You need to swap all / or \ and edit the folder names too; since files will be located at different folders.  It may take you less time to redo the playlists rather than editing the library file. 

[Awesome Donkey]

It isn't JRiver that does it.

There's major differences in paths between Windows, Mac and Linux. Going from Mac to Linux or vice versa is a little easier, but going from Windows to Mac/Linux or vice versa can be tricky.

[laerm]

Hmm. Okay, I can live with losing my playlists and recreating them; that's no big deal. All my play count information, though...phew. I need that. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[JimH]

They should be stored in the file unless you had that turned off.

[laerm]

Hmm...apparently? They didn't import with that info. I can reconstruct that, though, if I load up my old library in Windows, Write Data to Tags, and then Load Data from Tags in the new library on Linux, yeah?

Micah

[JimH]

Yeah

[drmimosa]

I just got my library transferred from Windows to Linux. Everything works: all files, play counts, and playlists, etc.  I posted notes on this board, hopefully same steps work for you as well.