chrisamiller's dashboard

Worked fine for me. Just do:

svn co http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/cli...

see these links:
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Develope...)
http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Develope...

Post back here if you come up with something and I'll be happy to help you debug/test. I just don't have the time to dive fully into another project at the moment. – chrisamiller, on August 18, 2009 22:08

Hi everyone.

Using a combination of others peoples ideas I've managed to get my iTunes ratings & playcounts into my Linux version of Songbird.

1. First we use the command from Albert Bicchi which will edit the paths in the iTunes xml to match the Linux paths.

sed -i "s/file:\/\/localhost\/C:/\/mnt\/windows/g" iTunes_Music_Library.xml

You should only need to change the "mnt\/windows" to point to the full path to your music. NB: Make sure you put a \ before every / in your path.

2. Next we use lgronning's solution:
1. find the chrome/songbird.manifest file
2. find the line chrome://songbird/content/xul/preferences/importLibraryPrefs.xul os=WINNT"
3. And replace it with "chrome://songbird/content/xul/preferences/importLibraryPrefs.xul"

3. And now the piece from Larix1206 (http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...). Open the file /Songbird/components/sbITunesImporter.js and go to line 1863. Now change the following:
location = "file:////" + url;
to
location = "file:////" + location;

4. Now you can open Songbird and go to Tools->Options->iTunes Importer and import your edited file from step 1.

I hope that this will help some of you out there. Good luck.

Any news on this new version? – chrisamiller, on January 31, 2009 04:46

Bug report:

1) When running without the --ignore flag, the script runs to completion, but does not update my library

2) When running with the --ignore flag, the program crashes after only a few songs. Backtrace follows:

java -cp .:sqlitejdbc-v054.jar iTunesRatingsToSongbirdCollisions --ignore -i ituneslib.xml -s /home/camiller/.songbird2/5qi9t2g9.default/db/main@library.songbirdnest.com.db
Working. . .
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -7
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1949)
at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1916)
at SongbirdSqlCommunicator.getFullFileFromId(SongbirdSqlCommunicator.java:552)
at SongbirdSqlCommunicator.updateAlbum(SongbirdSqlCommunicator.java:649)
at iTunesRatingsToSongbirdCollisions.handleUpdates(iTunesRatingsToSongbirdCollisions.java:947)
at iTunesRatingsToSongbirdCollisions.main(iTunesRatingsToSongbirdCollisions.java:532)

Not what I was hoping to hear. After years of trying to find a great linux audio player, Songbird is *this* close to becoming my default media player. Without this feature, though, I can't make the jump. Here's hoping someone can roll an extension or that you roadmap developers change your minds at a later date.

I was simply suggesting flushing the browser components from memory when not in use

Agreed - might be one easy way to lessen the footprint.

Unlike Jozer I understand the vision of building an integrated app, including browser components, and I think it's laudable and exciting. I wish you guys all the best in tackling this problem, and hope to see serious performance improvements soon (as outlined in the roadmap).

Upon loading songbird it's, my memory jumps immediately up to 250 MB or so. My library size is around 7000 songs.

You have to remember that the majority of people in the US are running computers that are at least a few years old. I'd wager that the majority of folks have 1GB of RAM or less. For one music app to be using 25% of that is ludicrous.

Like the poster, I really like songbird in principle, but if you want to gain a reasonable size user base, the next few releases should focus on performance, not functionality.