Importing ITunes ratings

mdahmus · 17th December 2003, 15:06

I spent several weeks painfully rating thousands of songs in my iTunes library (on Windows) and would like to import this data into WinAmp 5 (which I'd otherwise like to use). Any clues on how to do this?

mark · 17th December 2003, 19:28

I'm pretty sure you can't. Sorry. try searching teh forums anyway.

dlinkwit27 · 17th December 2003, 19:41

hate to tell ya, but you just wasted a few weeks of your life, cause you cant import the ratings.

if you are having any troulbe playing them though, try out this plg-in
http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=137828

mdahmus · 17th December 2003, 20:02

I don't want to play AAC songs; these are MP3s that I obtained off my own CDs (ripped outside iTunes).

The key here is - does anybody know what the library/ratings format is in winamp5? I can write a program pretty easily to grab ratings out of the library.xml for iTunes; the question is - where does winamp get its own ratings from, and in what format do they need to be?

mark · 17th December 2003, 20:21

ah, a smart n00b! sorry, cant help there...

dlinkwit27 · 18th December 2003, 02:18

Quote:

Originally posted by mdahmus
I don't want to play AAC songs; these are MP3s that I obtained off my own CDs (ripped outside iTunes).

The key here is - does anybody know what the library/ratings format is in winamp5? I can write a program pretty easily to grab ratings out of the library.xml for iTunes; the question is - where does winamp get its own ratings from, and in what format do they need to be?

As far as I knew, there were no ratings, but then I looked in teh media library and found that you can rate songs (i never took the time). Not in the ID3 tag I guess. This is a good question....

/edit

maybe this will help? I was messing in the media libray, right clicked, add custom veiw (ins), advanced editor, found this:

Quote:

You can enable more powerful views using the custom query language.

The basic format is:

<field> <comparison> [value] [<logic operator> <field> <comparison> [value] [...]]

Field names:
TYPE: 0 for audio files, 1 for video files
FILENAME: Full filename (including path)
LENGTH: Length, in seconds (or hh:mm:ss)
ARTIST: Artist
ALBUM: Album
TITLE: Title
TRACKNO: Track number of file
GENRE: Genre
YEAR: Year
COMMENT: Comment
FILESIZE: File size, in kilobytes
FILEDATE: Last known file date/time on disk
LASTUPD: Date/time of file imported to library or modified in library
LASTPLAY: Date/time of last play
RATING: Rating value (1-5, or 0 or empty for unrated)
PLAYCOUNT: Number of plays
BITRATE: Bitrate (in KBPS)

18th December 2003, 02:20

http://bluemars.org/ml_impex/wa5-ml_impex1.1.exe

dlinkwit27 · 18th December 2003, 02:22

or sawg can just save the day, ya know, whatever works

mdahmus · 18th December 2003, 13:27

Thanks! Looks like it worked like a charm. Appreciate the help.

ssstraub · 19th December 2003, 00:42

Oh hell yes. If this works I'm going to personally track you down and give you a big ol smooch, Sawg... So be on the look out! hahah

17th December 2003, 15:06	#1
mdahmus Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3	Importing ITunes ratings I spent several weeks painfully rating thousands of songs in my iTunes library (on Windows) and would like to import this data into WinAmp 5 (which I'd otherwise like to use). Any clues on how to do this?

17th December 2003, 19:41	#3
dlinkwit27 has no CT (Forum King) Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 13,236	hate to tell ya, but you just wasted a few weeks of your life, cause you cant import the ratings. if you are having any troulbe playing them though, try out this plg-in http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=137828 ::Deviant Me::Last.fm::WhatPulse Stats::Folding @ Home

17th December 2003, 20:02	#4
mdahmus Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3	ratings I don't want to play AAC songs; these are MP3s that I obtained off my own CDs (ripped outside iTunes). The key here is - does anybody know what the library/ratings format is in winamp5? I can write a program pretty easily to grab ratings out of the library.xml for iTunes; the question is - where does winamp get its own ratings from, and in what format do they need to be?

18th December 2003, 02:22	#8
dlinkwit27 has no CT (Forum King) Join Date: Sep 2000 Posts: 13,236	or sawg can just save the day, ya know, whatever works ::Deviant Me::Last.fm::WhatPulse Stats::Folding @ Home

Thread Tools	Search this Thread
Show Printable Version Email this Page	Search this Thread: Advanced Search
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

17th December 2003, 19:28	#2
mark Forum King Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Norn Ir'nd, leek... Posts: 6,287	I'm pretty sure you can't. Sorry. try searching teh forums anyway.

17th December 2003, 20:21	#5
mark Forum King Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Norn Ir'nd, leek... Posts: 6,287	ah, a smart n00b! sorry, cant help there...

18th December 2003, 02:20	#7
Sawg Guest Posts: n/a	http://bluemars.org/ml_impex/wa5-ml_impex1.1.exe

18th December 2003, 13:27	#9
mdahmus Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 3	Thanks! Looks like it worked like a charm. Appreciate the help.

19th December 2003, 00:42	#10
ssstraub Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: milwaukee, wi Posts: 6	Oh hell yes. If this works I'm going to personally track you down and give you a big ol smooch, Sawg... So be on the look out! hahah