LibMover Lukas_Skywalker
Helps you moving a library without losing ratings, covers and stuff
Ever wished to move your music files to an external hard drive or to a different folder? But you didn't store your ratings and you don't want to delete/reimport your tracks? LibMover helps you move your library easily.
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Oh, hey, no worries. I was able to open the library database in a SqlLite database tool and execute an SQL query to fix them all in one step.
SQL query to do is like this,
update media_items set content_url=replace(content_url, 'OLDPATH', 'NEWPATH') where 1;
replace OLDPATH and NEWPATH with correct paths.
Hi Chris
In fact, this is what the tool does. Except that it also moves the files automatically :-)
But yeah, i'll try to make it for 1.2 since there are still some Linux users on the planet.
Not sure why on Linux you are stuck at 1.2 I am using Mint KDE 9 and using 1.8.3 for Songbird. skyzim is a great place to get .deb files for Songbird. It may not be officially supported but it works pretty darn good.
Can you use this addon to move a library between two different profiles? I had to create a new one due to problems, and if this worked, I wouldn't have to do everything once again... And it's a big library ^_^
No you can't do it with the addon. But you can search your profile folder and copy the file in %Profilefolder%/db/main@library.songbirdnest.com.db
Great add-on but I had some problems. I wanted to delete a user on my machine and give access of the songbird library to another user. So I used libmover to move the library to Public Music. The files moved, but in the event 'Public Music' got renamed 'My Music' and about a third of the files retained their original access permissions, i.e. not available to 'Everybody'. These could only be changed individually (File Properties>Security), 300 files in my case! Maybe I shouldn't have moved to Public folder? Is libmover only designed to move the library within a single user's workspace?
Does this add-on work with Songbird 1.9.3? I am unable to find any clue in the gui on how to invoke it. Is there a shred of documentation anywhere? How do you invoke it? Can you move single files?, directories?, are sub-directories also moved? What explicitly does it do? I am unable to read your mind, especially remotely. I guess I don't have the divination ability requirements. Actually, I am not ungrateful though.
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ChrisSavery
Any chance this could be back ported to older versions? I'm a linux user stuck back on 1.2 but install use it. I would expect the code may work but it won't let me download it.