Importing iTunes Library without installing iTunes

[fhouse]

I'm migrating from iTunes 11 on OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion) to MediaMonkey 4.0.7 on Windows 7. I have no interest in installing iTunes, but I want to preserve my iTunes playlists, play counts, and most importantly for me, song ratings. Spoiler Alert: playlists didn't work, but the play counts and ratings did. Here's what I did:

• Transfer my library (25K songs, ~150GB) to my Windows machine (E:\Users\Walter\Music\MP3)
• Import the library into MM. This took around one hour. iTunes was not detected at the end of the library import, which is why I needed to perform the remaining steps.
• Move the iTunes library folder from the existing location (E:\Users\Walter\Music\MP3\iTunes) to the location MM expects it to be in (E:\Users\Walter\Music\iTunes)
• Edit the file paths in the iTunes library file (E:\Users\Walter\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music Library.xml) to reflect the location of the MP3 files on the Windows machine. In my case this involved changing all instances of the OSX file path "file://localhost/Users/walter/Music" to the Windows path "file://localhost/E:/Users/walter/Music/MP3".
• Create an iTunes preferences file that points to the location of the iTunes Library. I do not know if this step is required, but after seeing this bug http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=8411 I figured it probably was.

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  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
  <plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
  	<key>User Preferences</key>
  	<dict>
  		<key>iTunes Library XML Location:1</key>
  		<data>
  		RSA6IFwgVSBzIGUgciBzIFwgVyBhIGwgdCBlIHIgXCBNIHUgcyBpIGMgXCBp
  		IFQgdSBuIGUgcyBcIGkgVCB1IG4gZSBzICAgTSB1IHMgaSBjICAgTCBpIGIg
  		ciBhIHIgeSAuIHggbSBsIA==
  		</data>
  	</dict>
  </dict>
  </plist>
  

• Edit the Base64 string to point to the location of the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file (Note that the decoded string is unicode and that there's a space between each character). If you don't know how to base64 decode/encode a string... google it.
• In MM go to "File -> Add/Rescan Folder"s and select the iTunes folder (E:\Users\Walter\Music\MP3\iTunes). MM took a long time (> 1 hour) to parse all the data but when it completed play counts and song ratings were imported.

[Peke]

Hi, first you should try to use latest MMW 4.1 Beta (In portable at first fore testing).