I've restructured my music source folder for various reasons. Generally, I
used to store files in the format %artist%/%album%/%track% - %title%, but I've
decided to add another sub-folder, roughly categorising artists into their
major genre (putting another sub-folder to the front of the path), so that I
don't have too many artist folders in one root folder.
I exported trackstat data to a file first; the plan is to modify the content of
the export and then purge trackstat stats and import the modified file back in.
However, modifying the xml file is a little awkward. I have realised its going
to take some time to do many search+replace operations treating the file as
text.
I'm therefore thinking of writing something that will take the xml file and
look in the SqueezeCenter DB to try to re-match the stats with new paths.
I'm thinking this would be best suited as an option for the Trackstat import,
but I don't know if I can easily work out how to patch that (I'm not a perl
wizz, and the trackstat code may be hard for me to get to grips with), so if
such a utility doesn't already exist, I might write the code in .NET.
The algorithm seems easy enough:
for each trackstat path {
if the path matches a urn in DB, import stats for that item
else import into all song urn's that match the end-part of the
trackstat path
}
I think it would be quite common for the root-part of the folder to change, but
not the end-part (the artist, album, track number and song are less likely to
change following a restructure). Essentially, it would take the end of each
urn, down three levels of folder separator (so it would find the match on
"/artist/album/track - song").
I could write this as a .NET app that connected to the DB and read an XML file
and produced a new XML file, but is there anything like this that already
exists? Would it be worth me trying to figure out how to do it within
TrackStat?
Phil
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