TRACKSTAT ================ - Has two export options: --- You can select to export all track data in TrackStat to a text file, this file can then be given as parameter to the TrackStatiTunesUpdateWin.pl script included with TrackStat. Any existing existing playcounts,played time,ratings will be overwritten. The export is performed from the server settings page for TrackStat in the web ui. --- If you enable the iTunes integration in TrackStat a new row will be added to a text file each time a track is played/rated. This file can also be given as parameter to TrackStatiTunesUpdateWin.pl. It will change the rating in iTunes according to the information in the text file, it will increase the playcount with one for each time a track has been played according to the text file.
ITUNESUPDATE =================== I am not really sure exact how iTunes update works, so you try to get an answer regarding this from someone that has used it more than me. But I think it works as follows. - Can not export information about tracks played before the installation of iTunesUpdate. - You have two options to how exporting should be done when you play/rate tracks in slimserver. --- Option 1 is to directly call iTunes when the rating is set in slimserver or when the track is played in slimserver. To make this work I think iTunes and slimserver has to run on the same machine. I know it should work on Windows, I am not sure about Mac and I know it doesn't work on Linux since iTunes is not supported on Linux. --- Option 2 is that a new row will be added to a text file each time a track is played/rated. This file can be given as parameter to iTunesUpdateWin.pl. It will change the rating in iTunes according to the information in the text file, it will increase the playcount with one for each time a track has been played according to the text file. So the main differens is that TrackStat can export your old slimserver statistics, while iTunesUpdate will export everyting that happens after you have installed/configured iTunesUpdate. My personal advice is that if old slimserver statistics isn't of interest you should use the iTunesUpdate plugin. If you have used slimserver for a while and really wants to get its statistics into iTunes you can consider to use TrackStat. But be aware that TrackStat will not be doing any smart synchronization when doing a complete export, it will just overwrite the iTunes values with the ones from slimserver. So this obviously means that you will loose old iTunes statistics instead. The only reason the iTunes integration exists in TrackStat is that I wanted to be able to do a complete export including old statistics. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25563 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
