Comments on: Developing Dev Skills http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/ More of a geek each day... Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:33:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: yash http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-1323 yash Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:17:53 +0000 http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/#comment-1323 I wish there was a way to transfer play counts from last.fm to your pc....itunes.. I wish there was a way to transfer play counts from last.fm to your pc….itunes..

]]> By: Lauren http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-653 Lauren Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:20:09 +0000 http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/#comment-653 Hey thanks guys, The xml file is definitely the way to go at the moment I have code that reads the file in and stores some of the useful information, not too difficult but definitely a good start! Gary: Yeah I think import and export functions would've helped if I had done that straight away, but now I have play counts on both iTunes that I don't want to lose! So I'm aiming to add them together instead. Neil: Yeah it's not a bad xml file, had some problems with it and Java's DOM parser, but think I have managed to get round that now. Thanks for the article I think it's mostly up-to-date but there are some new things that iTunes keeps track of now, like Skip Count. Steven: last.fm is a very pretty site! I think I may have a more in depth look at that soon. Thanks again for all the comments, Lxx Hey thanks guys,

The xml file is definitely the way to go at the moment I have code that reads the file in and stores some of the useful information, not too difficult but definitely a good start!

Gary: Yeah I think import and export functions would’ve helped if I had done that straight away, but now I have play counts on both iTunes that I don’t want to lose! So I’m aiming to add them together instead.

Neil: Yeah it’s not a bad xml file, had some problems with it and Java’s DOM parser, but think I have managed to get round that now. Thanks for the article I think it’s mostly up-to-date but there are some new things that iTunes keeps track of now, like Skip Count.

Steven: last.fm is a very pretty site! I think I may have a more in depth look at that soon.

Thanks again for all the comments,

Lxx

]]> By: Steven Morrison http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-649 Steven Morrison Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:51:47 +0000 http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/#comment-649 I've also been annoyed in the past by losing my play counts, not having them shared between Linux and Windows being my main gripe. This doesn't solve the problem, but a website I like a lot is <a href="http://last.fm/user/sgmorrison" rel="nofollow">last.fm</a>. It stores play counts for you (and groups by artist) and lets you see what you've been listening to. I’ve also been annoyed in the past by losing my play counts, not having them shared between Linux and Windows being my main gripe. This doesn’t solve the problem, but a website I like a lot is last.fm. It stores play counts for you (and groups by artist) and lets you see what you’ve been listening to.

]]> By: Neil http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-648 Neil Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:40:58 +0000 http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/#comment-648 Yup the iTunes XML file is the way to go, it's in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library or somewhere. I actually played a bit on writing a small app that'd go through the library and count up your playcounts for each artist so you'd know which artists you listen to most. It's a fairly sensible XML file, not hard to write a parser for and yes you can edit it. Sounds like it'd be a useful app, I too hate when I lose my play counts as I use them extensively in play lists. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/11/03/itunes.html is an article on it though it's quite likely out of date. Good luck! Yup the iTunes XML file is the way to go, it’s in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library or somewhere. I actually played a bit on writing a small app that’d go through the library and count up your playcounts for each artist so you’d know which artists you listen to most. It’s a fairly sensible XML file, not hard to write a parser for and yes you can edit it.

Sounds like it’d be a useful app, I too hate when I lose my play counts as I use them extensively in play lists.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/11/03/itunes.html is an article on it though it’s quite likely out of date.

Good luck!

]]> By: Gary Fleming http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/comment-page-1/#comment-646 Gary Fleming Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:31:26 +0000 http://www.laurendempster.com/2006/10/10/developing-dev-skills/#comment-646 I haven't tried importing yet, but if you go to File->Export Library... in iTunes it gives you the option to export your library as XML. The resulting file does contain play counts. Like I say, I haven't tried to then import it to see if it uses it (I imagine it would). If it doesn't, it gives you a fairly simple data-source to start with. Hope that helps. I haven’t tried importing yet, but if you go to File->Export Library… in iTunes it gives you the option to export your library as XML. The resulting file does contain play counts. Like I say, I haven’t tried to then import it to see if it uses it (I imagine it would). If it doesn’t, it gives you a fairly simple data-source to start with. Hope that helps.

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