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GodEater:
Not really - he wants the metadata that goes with his file - and that's only stored in the rockbox database.

Sure - he could back the files up which contain the database - but it's not much good to him on his PC for keeping track of what he's listened to unless he has an application which understands the file format.

elborak:
Agreed, but he was talking about switching to another device. In that case a raw backup of the database files is sufficient.

GodEater:

--- Quote ---And if I hear 50% music on the PC and 50% on the portable device, there HAS to be the need and a way to synchronize the data...

--- End quote ---

But he also wants to sync his playcounts and rating between his device and his PC. So simply backing up will gain him nothing in that direction.

polygonal:
You can probably achieve this by using a decent tagging software that can import text file to tag. From all the tagging softwares I know (which is not much, by the way ;-), MP3TAG can do it. You can export the database changelog and then have the data there write into your file. And for the rockbox side, there is a patch out there that read the rating tag and display that instead of the database rating.

It's rather cumbersome, but at least it is one way to do what you want instead of begging someone to understand how rockbox tagcache works and write a program for that.

dcr693:
sun, this probably won't help you out, but I thought I'd mention my own system for working with playcounts. I've never attempted to deal with ratings and my system wouldn't work with it anyway.

I use MediaMonkey 2.x which stores data in an mdb file. The file type is used by MS Access as well as VB. I use Rockbox with the LastFM log feature to log when songs are played. I then take the scrobbler.log file (it's in txt format) and import it into Access. At that point, it's really easy to use an update query to update playcounts.

Other than the fact that this does not do anything for ratings, you probably won't want to use this system. First, MediaMonkey 3 beta 2 is out and it uses a different db format, based on mySQL. I searched (but not too hard) for an easy to use front end to it, but couldn't find one. Two, to easily use this method, you'd need MS Access though you could use VB for it also.

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