<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/31/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Shanon Mulley</b> <<a href="mailto:shanonmulleyster@gmail.com">shanonmulleyster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I manage my mythmuisc playlists using itunes. The way I manage this is:<br>1) Make some changes in itunes (on my windows machine) - either<br>adding/editing playlists, or adding new music. (All these mp3's are<br>stored on the windows machine)
<br>2) On the mythtv machine, run a script to read through the itunes xml<br>database file, and copy any new music from the windows machine to the<br>linux machine.<br>3) In mythtv, run the "scan for new music" function.
<br>4) Run a second script to update the playlists.<br><br>If no new music has been added, just new playlists, I can skip steps 2 and 3.<br><br>Yes this means all my mp3's are on two machines, but that was my<br>intention - sort of a backup. I'm sure these scripts could be modified
<br>to use a central repositry for thet mp3 files. I just find this<br>easier.</blockquote><div><br>I use rsync for the same purpose, to keep both pictures and iTunes backed up to the mythtv machine:<br><br>#/usr/bin/bash
<br>mount -t smbfs //fish/music wifemusic/<br>mount -t smbfs //fish/Pictures wifepicture/<br>rsync -rbvW --ignore-existing /mnt/wifemusic/iTunes/iTunes\ Music/ /mnt/music/Library<br>rsync -rbvW --ignore-existing /mnt/wifepicture/ /home/pictures
<br><br></div><br></div><br>I'm interested in the script you have that synchronizes the playlists, would you mind sharing? A while back I wrote some patches for mythweb's mythmusic that would handle playlist, but I guess they weren't well liked because they got left by the wayside.
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