I know you've mentioned copying from one PC to another before. I don't understand why just copying the itunes directory doesn't work. On my work PC that is in C:\Documents and Settings\richard\My Documents\My Music\iTunes. Why can't you just copy that entire directory to another PC?

I currently don't have any way of getting 12GB from one PC to another. I'm sure that I can manage that, though, if I need to - if it will work. But when I import files into iTunes, it seems to blank out 'My Rating', 'Play Count' and 'Last Played'. How do you get around that?

Instead of importing why don't you replace the iTunes directory with your copied one? Obviously make sure iTunes isn't running at the time.

Of course if you're trying to merge then that is more difficult.

Are you SURE they aren't settable and are you sure that all that information isn't exposed? All of the things you want to do are most definitely exposed from the Mac interface. pytunes is most definitely a tiny subset of the capabilities of the COM interfaces that are exposed by iTunes. I've used the COM interface to discover iPods, create playlists and add tracks.

As far as migrating metadata from one iTunes to another, the music database is mirrored as an xml file (on Mac, anyway) that you can import into another instance of iTunes... but also, the metadata is mirrored in the tracks for the most part (depending on the version of id3 tag, and it doesn't include playlists, of course).

Actually, Bob, I'm pretty sure that I *can* read and set everything that I want. The API calls aren't in the obvious place - on the track - but the SDK includes docs showing how to do this. I'll have a look into this when I have the time.

If the XML file exists in the PC version of iTunes, *I* can't find it. I can create an XML file by exporting, but importing into another instance if iTunes doesn't set the meta data.

But that's OK - it looks like I'll be able to do this with the COM interface.

I have an xml file and it's the iTunes directory I mentioed. It's called 'iTunes Music Library.xml'. That does contain all the information you want.

Nope, nothing there, Ricard.

Ah, found it. On my PC its pit it in C:\My Music\iTunes. I'll give it a bash...

I recently moved my itunes library from one pc to another. When I did this, the directory structure stayed exactly the same, and my rating came with it. I then copied that exact same itunes library to my desktop but under a different directory structure. When I did this, my rating did not come with it. I edited the xml file (located under the folder "itunes") and changed a couple songs to point to the correct directory structure. While I was in there, I noticed that the rating was specified within the xml file. However, even after updating the directory structure and re-adding the songs, my rating was still missing. Can anyone run with this?

Same problem here, I watched the apple how-to vid on their site and my rating and play count are gone! I spoke to an apple guy today and he said something about setting it up right the first time before launching itunes, so I deleted both my Apple Computers folders in Application Data and Local Settings / application data. Then I forcefed it by duplicating these directories from the old pc, and made sure I had both systems running same version of itunes. The result? SQUAT! Just my songs without the data. Uber annoying.

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