MM3 & Playcounts/Last Played

nynaevelan · Post by **nynaevelan** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:54 pm

Hi:

I have FINALLY gotten 2.5.5.998 set up as perfectly as I could imagine, thanks to the availability of some great scripts. With that in mind, I would like to "play" with MM3 to see if it will meet my needs or if I will avoid the conversion and stick with 2.5.5.998. Anyway, one of the things that is not available in MM3 is the retention of playcounts and the play history. I understand the reason why but I was curious, has any of you testers found a way around this to import the playcount/last played from MM2?? I was thinking of Steegy's Extract Fields but it does not have the Played/Last Played as one of the fields to extract field. Or Steegy's SwitchorCopy script but it did not work for the same reason. Has anyone overcome this roadblock, or am I the only one who wants to import the playcounts? I would like these values available because alot of my usage of MM2 is based on the playcounts. In order for me to test MM3 to my satisfaction, I would like to test based on the playcounts also. I'm aware that many of the MM2 scripts do not work in MM3 (I've already tested the ones that I use) but I do still have some available that are based on the playcounts.

Nyn

BTW, based on my initial impression of MM3, it is going to be a hard decision to give up one or the other. MM3 looks like it is going to have some impressive features, and it is only in the alpha stage!!!

Teknojnky · Post by **Teknojnky** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:12 pm

Once the MM 3 database stabilizes, they will provide an import function to import existing mm 2 playcounts etc.

Until then, we all will just have to be a little more patient..

nynaevelan · Post by **nynaevelan** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:42 pm

Techno:

Thanks for the answer, I will play with it without the playcounts.

Nyn

nynaevelan · Post by **nynaevelan** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:03 pm

Hi All:

I realized I could not live without my playcounts after all. So I cheated, I copied the playcount numbers into the custom3 field in MM2, imported the files into MM3 and used the Playcounter script to copy the counts into the played field. Now I can better test MM3 to ensure it will meet my needs.

A side note, I am not using my "live" music library for my testing of MM3. I created a second directory with only a select number of tracks. I am not comfortable using MM3 on my "live" database. This way if I screw something up, I have not lost my database. Is there anyone who is using their "live" database with MM3?? Have you encountered any adverse effects?

Nyn

drjboulder · Post by **drjboulder** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:40 pm

Wondering whether or not import is suppose to be working yet or if it just did not work for me.

Did not import play counts or last played when I installed MediaMonkey v3.0.1.1105 RC-3 or MediaMonkey v3.0.1.1109 RC-3.

Is it just me or is it not implemented yet?

BTW: LOVING MM3!!!

nohitter151 · Post by **nohitter151** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:09 am

Import from MM2 has been around for awhile now. It should ask you if you want to import your MM2 database when you install.

drjboulder · Post by **drjboulder** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 12:20 am

Hmmm.....
It imported my ratings but not playcount and history

Any suggestions?

drjboulder · Post by **drjboulder** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:18 pm

Okay I am an idiot!

First mistake I made was that it was not a clean install. DB and INI from a brief try of Beta over the summer was still present.
Then when I re-installed I rescanned my library and deleted DB upgrade.
All is fine now.

PolarBear2k · Post by **PolarBear2k** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 11:01 pm

I changed over to MM3 from iTunes and been using it for 2 months or so almost everyday and I still have my music and ratings. lol I have about 3000 songs and currently I'm trying to organize my music. I don't know what I would do if I would lose my ratings.

Thats why you gotta keep a backup!