How to import itunes library from windows into songbird in linux

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How to import itunes library from windows into songbird in linux

Submitted by Pay919 on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 6:58pm.

I was wondering if there was a way to import an itunes library that was created in windows, in songbird which is installed in linux (ubuntu).
The problem with this (i assume) is that the file locations are different ... in windows its C:\blah blah, and in ubuntu its /home/blah blah
It would be really appreciated if someone could help me out!
Thanks
Pay

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eldino Says: Thu, 05/15/2008 - 4:01am

Go to your Documents/Music/iTunes, duplicate the "iTunes Library.xml" (backupping stuff always rocks), open the duplicated file with a plain text editor (if it's huge, i suggest u to install the balzing fast notepad++) and search&change "file://localhost/C:/blah blah" with "file://localhost/home/blah blah". Save. Then open Songbird and import the new modified xml. Enjoy
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jkoshi Says: Thu, 05/15/2008 - 10:24am

eldino, thanks for the reply! pay919, let us know how that works out for you.

eldino Says: Thu, 05/15/2008 - 12:27pm

@jkoshi: it should work fine, i use this method since 4-5 years to transfer music from Mac to PC and viceversa, from internal hds to external ones to NAS and so on. I never lost a rating! iTunes is great mainly for these details :) btw: i suggest u to use a good plain text editor such as Notepad++ if your XML is huge. Windows built-in editors suck and they take ages to perform the task. I have OpenSuse but I never did this task on it, so can't suggest anything else :)

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Pay919 Says: Thu, 05/15/2008 - 5:15pm

Hey guys, changing the xml worked, but instead of changing the file location to "file://localhost/home/blah blah" it should be changed to "/localhost/home/blah blah"
By the way, thanks for all your help =]

jkoshi Says: Fri, 05/16/2008 - 12:09pm

Excellent!

SonicSpot Says: Sun, 05/18/2008 - 4:22pm

Hey everyone! I've created a little solution for the whole "cross OS, replace paths in xml" problem. It's a little program that does that for you! Check out http://www.minimalcomplex.com/songbird/ for more info.

jkoshi Says: Mon, 05/19/2008 - 12:58pm

AWESOME!

stevel Says: Mon, 05/19/2008 - 8:46am

SonicSpot - that rocks :-) Nice work!!! I'm gonna go blog it!

SonicSpot Says: Wed, 05/21/2008 - 2:26am

Thanks! If you have any ideas or problems with the app, just mail it to me!