by fender-bender » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:46 pm
Since none of my ideas worked,
and since they may be others stuck in the same place,
especially when you song folders are on another networked computer,
here's the work around I came up with:
First, in iTunes, I changed the BPM (beats per minute) in my songs to refect my rating since that does not come across. Worked fine. When songs were imported to MM I just grouped them by BPM, then rated them enmass. Of course this means that you can't be using the BPM in iTunes, but really, none of the songs I imported had that info anyway.
Second, I used the "Grouping" field in iTunes to similarly group my playlists. The thing to do here is to make a string of letters that won't appear in any other field. So for instance, I have a playlist called "Channel 15", so I clicked on the playlist in iTunes, selected all, then edited the songs so the grouping for all of them read, "ppp15". Later when I imported songs (rescanned the folder) I just searched for that string in MM and turned that list into a playlist.
Kinda the long way around, but in retrospect, it took a couple hours, while previously I had invested many hours tring to get other methods to work.
Hope someone may find this helpful.
Since none of my ideas worked,
and since they may be others stuck in the same place,
especially when you song folders are on another networked computer,
here's the work around I came up with:
First, in iTunes, I changed the BPM (beats per minute) in my songs to refect my rating since that does not come across. Worked fine. When songs were imported to MM I just grouped them by BPM, then rated them enmass. Of course this means that you can't be using the BPM in iTunes, but really, none of the songs I imported had that info anyway.
Second, I used the "Grouping" field in iTunes to similarly group my playlists. The thing to do here is to make a string of letters that won't appear in any other field. So for instance, I have a playlist called "Channel 15", so I clicked on the playlist in iTunes, selected all, then edited the songs so the grouping for all of them read, "ppp15". Later when I imported songs (rescanned the folder) I just searched for that string in MM and turned that list into a playlist.
Kinda the long way around, but in retrospect, it took a couple hours, while previously I had invested many hours tring to get other methods to work.
Hope someone may find this helpful.
