So I have two powerbooks with separate itunes libraries and they're both rapidly dying so I'm trying to move them over to my new macbook. Is there a way to merge the two separate libraries into one on the new machine without losing all the playlist/playcount data from one of the libraries? I've done some googling which suggests that I'm going to lose some of this data, but I figured someone here would know for certain if it's possible.
― wmlynch, Saturday, 29 March 2008 16:28 (eighteen years ago)
eh just export the playlists start over and say goodbye to your playcounts
― jhøshea, Saturday, 29 March 2008 16:43 (eighteen years ago)
I've migrated one library from a machine to another without losing its data, but I don't think you can *automatically* preserve both sets of data. You could manually add the data of the other machine to the new one, but that's a lot of work and you'd have to be pretty intense to do that. Of course, if you're asking...
― Euler, Saturday, 29 March 2008 16:51 (eighteen years ago)
take screencaps if you care?
― Tape Store, Saturday, 29 March 2008 17:08 (eighteen years ago)
Is it worth 30 bucks to you?
― libcrypt, Saturday, 29 March 2008 17:47 (eighteen years ago)
Might be able to do it with this "export selected tracks to XML" script
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/scripts03.php
or some combo of the huge number of scripts on this site.
― bendy, Saturday, 29 March 2008 17:52 (eighteen years ago)
The iTunes metadata is just one easily-parsable XML file; anyone with an hour to kill, knowledge of some XML libs, and motivation, could likely whip out a merge tool with ease. I'd do it, but I'm pretty low on #3.
― libcrypt, Saturday, 29 March 2008 18:28 (eighteen years ago)
Yeah this seems to be one of those things I'm anal enough to want to do, but not motivated enough to actually work through. I'll just export the playlists. I'm surprised Apple doesn't have a way to do this though.
― wmlynch, Saturday, 29 March 2008 20:02 (eighteen years ago)