Since Banshee became the default player in Natty, I want to import my playlists from Rhythmbox. Banshee offers an 'import playlists' feature but it does not recognize Rhythmbox's playlists (in folder home/user/.local/share/rhythmbox).
Ubuntu – How to import playlists from Rhythmbox into Banshee
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I am not sure how to get the old podcasts out, but adding the podcasts and re-syncing can be done as shown below:
My two cents, applicable to Banshee 2.3.3 / Rhythmbox 2.95:
- Music library: just specify your Music folder to Rhythmbox and it will be imported
- Playlists:
- Dynamic Playlists: as far as I know you will have to re-create them. Not fun, with additional complication due to the different feature sets of each player.
- Static Playlists: just export them as .m3u in Banshee and re-import them in Rhythmbox
- Playcounts and ratings
- Playcounts: I don't know
- Ratings: create a dynamic playlist for each of the stars (i.e. create "rating1,rating2,rating3,rating4,rating5" dynamic playlists, then export them as .m3u, then import them in Rhythmbox. I just tested it, both players use filenames relative to ~ , so you will be fine.
- One solution to both would be to implement #538549 - Use of ID3v2 Popularimeter for Rating (maybe Play Count)
- Radio stations: I don't know
- Cover pictures: while not a "migration" option, Rhythmbox 2.9x/3 does a better job at handling cover art. Try it by enabling the
Cover ArtandCover Art Searchplugins inEdit / Plugins. In my case (cover art stored as .jpg in the folder, or as ID3), they are recognized just fine
Hope that helps! Good luck :)
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The
~/.local/share/rhythmboxplaylists are on aplaylists.xmlfile. I think Banshee can't import.xmlfiles, but.plsfiles, wich are the default Rhythbox playlists format when you SAVE them.So I believe you have to install Rhythmbox, save every playlist and then, import them from Banshee. I might be wrong, but I think it's the only option.