Bug 340973

Summary: Make it easy to move database
Product: [Applications] amarok Reporter: Alex Dănilă <alex.danila.web>
Component: Collections/LocalAssignee: Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: matej, ralf-engels, tuomas
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 2.8.0   
Target Milestone: 2.9   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alex Dănilă 2014-11-14 23:46:01 UTC 
Moving collection between computers is not straightforward. I copied:
- all music at the exact same paths
- ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/*
- ~/.kde/share/config/amarok*

However this is not enough. I achieved: copying layout + most or all settings + playlist contents; but the collection contained 0 tracks. After rescaning there were no ratings or "statistics".

I find that loosing ratings (+ play statistics + tags + lyrics) at each computer change kind of negates the usefullness of using the feature.

Reproducible: Always


Actual Results:  
Collection is not transferable by means known to mortals.

Expected Results:  
Collection should transfer easily without having database knowledge or who knows what other skills.
Comment 1 Matěj Laitl 2014-11-15 10:31:43 UTC 
This should be (partially or even fully) resolved by Konrad's GSoC 2013 (to be included in next Amarok release), see http://konradzemek.com/
Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2014-11-15 10:32:54 UTC 
Changing the description, as it is about moving the database from one computer to another, not about actually moving the collection (physical files).
Comment 3 Ralf Engels 2014-11-16 13:44:12 UTC 
If you never want to loose the rating again, just go to "settings/metadata" and switch on the syncing. This would store the metadata in the file. Storing rating and playcounts is even somewhat compatible because there is a standard for it.
Comment 4 Alex Dănilă 2014-11-17 20:11:42 UTC 
Update: actually I think the method of copying  database files has worked. I started Amarok today and can see that many many songs have ratings, tags and play counts. They see correct.
Comment 5 Tuomas Nurmi 2024-04-30 09:22:35 UTC 
Closing as based on the last comment, this might have actually worked back 10 years ago. If everything's in right place on first start / first collection update / rescan, the copy process probably works. (This is somewhat sensitive, as the tracks not being in collection for during a scan can easily lead them to be deemed removed, but writing stats to files is a possibility. Additionally, some related bugs that might have caused loss of statistics if the paths were not exactly the same have been fixed since.)