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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 30 for Mac => Topic started by: AldoAlvarez on April 20, 2023, 11:01:28 am

Title: XML import
Post by: AldoAlvarez on April 20, 2023, 11:01:28 am

Thank you for fixing the licensing issue.

Now Media Center 30 won't accept the .xml file from the Music app.

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: JimH on April 20, 2023, 11:06:24 am

What music app?

I'll split this to a new thread?

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: AldoAlvarez on April 20, 2023, 11:14:54 am

The Music app that replaced iTunes in MacOS.

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: JimH on April 20, 2023, 11:38:26 am

If you have a previous version of MC, just restore the backup from it.  [wiki]

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: AldoAlvarez on April 20, 2023, 11:49:34 am

I just purchased JRiver so that's not a solution to the problem.

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: JimH on April 20, 2023, 12:02:34 pm

Try this:  https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/ITunes

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: AldoAlvarez on April 20, 2023, 05:02:04 pm

This doesn't work for me as the Music app for MacOS doesn't produce a library like the one iTunes produced, and MC 30 won't accept an .XML file from MacOS's Music app, claiming it's not a valid .xml file. 

Incidentally, I transfered a small, individual .m3u playlist saved by Music  to MC 30.  MC 30 renamed one of the song tracks so it has the same title and artist as the file next to it!

Since your instructions don't work with the MacOS Music app, I decided to see if the playist .m3u files produced by beaTunes5 when synchronizing with Music are transportable to MC 30. I am synchronizing beaTunes5 with Music as we speak...

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: AldoAlvarez on April 20, 2023, 08:32:50 pm

Update:

I tried importing individual playlists to MC30 that I saved from Music for the MacOS (what used to be iTunes) and they were missing tracks, renaming tracks, and/or listing multiples of the same track.  The original playlist in Music is perfect AND the same exact problem reoccurs whether I save the playlist as .xmll or .mu3.

Also: I can’t upsample files and run VSTs at the same time as I get extremely stuttering playback. 

I've been using your software for 8 hours and I keep finding your instructions on site to be outdated (it's been a long time since MacOS used iTunes!) or Windows-focused.

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: JimH on April 21, 2023, 01:10:22 am

Quote from: AldoAlvarez on April 20, 2023, 05:02:04 pm

Incidentally, I transfered a small, individual .m3u playlist saved by Music  to MC 30.  MC 30 renamed one of the song tracks so it has the same title and artist as the file next to it!

That might be a tag problem.  It could also be an Apple problem.  I don't think it's a JRiver problem.

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: AldoAlvarez on April 21, 2023, 04:53:23 am

The files who didn't show up from Music to MC 30 are a tag problem.  I re-tagged two of the albums with missing or repeated tags with Yate and they appeared properly after that.

It's gonna be a nightmare to retag 27004 files!

Title: Re: XML import
Post by: JimH on April 21, 2023, 05:07:38 am

MC has some tools for tagging.  Take a look at the wiki.

It can use the folder name, for example.