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[laerm]

Hi all –

This is something I was thinking of just now, sparked by how much I wish MC Mac could connect to MC Win's library server.

What's to stop me from dumping out my Win library as XML* and doing a grep on the filename field and changing the Windows directory structure to OS X?

* one HUGE file, sure, but if it's good enough for iTunes... 

Thoughts?
Micah

[Matt]

You could be a pioneer and try.

Eventually we expect to be able to connect between Mac and Windows.  It's mostly the filename conversion stuff that we haven't solved yet.

[MrC]

I've done this already - an MPL export/filename munge/MPL import works fine.

[laerm]

You could be a pioneer and try.

Eventually we expect to be able to connect between Mac and Windows.  It's mostly the filename conversion stuff that we haven't solved yet.

I shall brave the wild frontier. (Well, after MrC, apparently. )

Micah

[JohnT]

The process is still rather experimental, but I just copied my library files from Windows to a folder on Mac, then did "Add Library" in Mac MC to add this one and called it "Windows Library", then I selected all files and used Find & Replace in "Library Tools -> Rename, Move, & Copy Files..." to change "G:/Media" to "/Volumes/Media" in all files, and it seemed to work fine.

[laerm]

The process is still rather experimental, but I just copied my library files from Windows to a folder on Mac, then did "Add Library" in Mac MC to add this one and called it "Windows Library", then I selected all files and used Find & Replace in "Library Tools -> Rename, Move, & Copy Files..." to change "G:/Media" to "/Volumes/Media" in all files, and it seemed to work fine.

Oh, right...that function doesn't work in MC Mac yet but one could make a duplicate library on Windows and do it there and that would do it. Thanks for the tip, JohnT!

Micah

[laerm]

The process is still rather experimental, but I just copied my library files from Windows to a folder on Mac, then did "Add Library" in Mac MC to add this one and called it "Windows Library", then I selected all files and used Find & Replace in "Library Tools -> Rename, Move, & Copy Files..." to change "G:/Media" to "/Volumes/Media" in all files, and it seemed to work fine.

Wait...Macs use the backslash for folder separation. How did you find and replace that? I tried and mine says "invalid".

Micah

[JohnT]

Mac uses forward slash, Windows uses back slash.  When you move the library from Windows, MC on Mac is putting forward slashes in place of the back slashes and then I just replaced the "g:" with "/Volumes"

[laerm]

Mac uses forward slash, Windows uses back slash.  When you move the library from Windows, MC on Mac is putting forward slashes in place of the back slashes and then I just replaced the "g:" with "/Volumes"

Oh, so it's just a matter of replacing the drive name? MC Mac figures it out? Fantastic! Thanks.

Micah

[JohnT]

Let us know how this works for you.  As we refine the process for sharing the library cross platform, feedback on potential "gotchas" will be very helpful.

[laerm]

Let us know how this work for you.  As we refine the process for sharing the library cross platform, feedback on potential "gotchas" will be very helpful.

It worked! I am quite pleased. MC crashed when I loaded the library (unchecked load settings), but then when I restarted the library was there. Ran the change to the database as you suggested and it looks intact. Listening to tunes like a happy camper.

Thanks!
Micah

[JohnT]

Glad it's working for you.  If you have any more crashes when changing libraries, maybe send a log file to logs at jriver dot com.

[laerm]

Glad it's working for you.  If you have any more crashes when changing libraries, maybe send a log file to logs at jriver dot com.

Will do. Want me to dig up the one I just had?

And I did find a glitch in the find/replace... I had some files that were in my library on a smb share that wasn't assigned a drive letter. (So instead of X:/ they started with //192.168.1.4) I am able to change the IP to the OS X volume name, but the paths got screwy. They went from:

/dir1/dir2/dir3/filename.ext

to

/dir/dir2/dir3/filename.ext/filename.ext/filename.ext //filename.ext

Exactly like that. Real wacky. So I'll see if I can expression myself out of that (probably not, but it's only a few hundred files so I'll get by without hearing them anyway).

Micah