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Originally Posted by Steezebe
WOW. :thumbs:
Ok first, i've just gone through this entire thread, and this has answered so many problems that google wasn't really giving me.
THANK YOU to tore and Noise for your wonderful help.
now until I can post images of my current foobar setup (i need 15 posts) i am looking for some scripting help.
I have made the switch to foobar2000 from iTunes as I don't need it to sync to my phone any more. However some parts of iTunes were nice, and didn't make the transfer. Specifically, three things have not made the switch: play counts, date added and (this is the big one) album artists. Since I group all of my soundtracks with 'original soundtrack' as the album artist, it allows me to sort my library so all soundtracks stay together. I also use the play counts to make autoplaylists for my favorite songs.
so here's what i know:
1) SOME of the album artist metadata has come over, but not very much (like 5%) and I haven't found out a pattern to it.
2) iTunes stores some of the more unique data, such as play counts, in an xml file and not on the metadata for each file
so any ideas/ help on how to transfer that info over to foobar2000? i've been fighting this for about a week now...
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Play counts and date added are sadly lost I assume since itunes likely saves that information in it's database file which foobar won't read. There could be a way to import that data with a plugin, but I doubt it.
You should figure out a way to easily find all your various artists albums, whether they're soundtracks or mixed artist compilations like Top Hits of the 70s. For me, it would be a breeze since I also keep that information in the filename. F.ex :
- \Music\!Mixed Artists Compilations\The Last Nightingale [Studio album, 1980s]
- \Music\!Soundtracks & Scores\1930s\1939 - The Wizard Of Oz [Movie, Musical, 1995 rerelease]
I often use the foo_quicksearch searchbar to find my music and it allows for scripts, so if I wanted to find all mixed artist compilations, I could simply search for for : %path% HAS \Music\!Mixed Artists Compilations\
That search would return every file and album stored in that directory. If you don't have this level of organization over your files, it becomes a bit trickier. You might have to start doing other searches like "%album% HAS soundtrack" or "%path% HAS soundtrack" to find the ones where soundtrack is part of the album name.
I'm sure there are more ways, but that's what came to my mind at least
