Export/import song ratings across different playlists

Is it possibe to export & import ratings from one pc to another, where the song lists are not identical. The target pc has all the songs contained on the source cd but also additional ones.

Is it possibe to export & import ratings from one pc
to another, where the song lists are not identical.
The target pc has all the songs contained on the
source cd but also additional ones.
Possible, yes. Easy, no.
I created this script a while back to do just this sort of thing: http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2006/02/03/itunes-saveratings-script/
It's pretty easy to use. Run it, hit the Save Ratings button. The ratings are copied from iTunes into a file called "ratings.xml". Copy the program and that xml file to the new machine, run the program again, and click the Restore Ratings button. All those ratings get copied into the new machine if it can find those songs on there. The song titles and artist names of the songs that have the ratings you want to transfer must be identical between the two machines for it to work though.
It also copies playcount and last played time, while it's at it.

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I manage my iPod nano and iPhone manually since their respective capacities are too small for my library.
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Hey! By mistake I found the solution to my exact question i.e. how to have ratings etc synced automatically without the use of playlists or 3rd parties. (Meg's answer actually convinced me to use dedicated playlists, but then, after toying with the devices and iTunes I stumbled on the solution to my original dilemma, which I've seen discussed in many places but not yet answered)
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when you connect the device (nano multi-touch or iphone 4, don't know about others) to iTunes, while having "Manually manage music" disabled (with "Enable disk use" enabled or disabled, it doesn't matter), go to Music tab, check "Sync Music", choose "Selected playlists, artists, albums, and genres" and that's it. You don't check any actual playlists, artists etc below, you can drag from iTunes and drop your chosen music to the device, play it, rate it, connect to iTunes and sync and you'll see the rating and play counts updated. Simple as that.
Thank you Meg, your answer is actually the best, I guess, since having the dedicated playlists tends to keep things more in order, but - thank you Apple! - you don't always need to be perfectly organized in order to have an up-to-date rating.
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kirwantd wrote:
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i have a ipod classic 80g and a ipod mini 20g (i think). both of these have different music since neither can hold everything in my itunes library, i use the song rating function often as a way of organizing things. however, i have not been succesful at finding a way to update my song ratings in itunes from my ipods. i do not know if turning autosync on would work or not since neither ipod contains the entire library. any help would be extremely helpful

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When you import a song from a CD that you already have on iTunes, it tells you that you already have the song and asks if you want to replace it. I love the way doing this keeps all the song info; ratings, artwork, comments, even which playlists it is in... whilst still re-writing over the song, which is good for if you want to change the format the song is in e.g. MP3 to AAC.
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Thanks everyone.
In response to Mr Blobby, I am aware of the convert to option, but that doesn't keep the song in the playlists it was in before, it creates a whole new song whilst keeping the old one. I'll definately use it in the right circumstances though.
In response to Michael Allbrit; Thanks for the point about AIFF files not supporting ID3 tagging. It wouldn't really matter in the procedure I want to do, as I actually want to retain the info I'll ascribe to songs on songs in a format like AAC, which I'll keep on my computer, then have back-ups in AIFF on CD (which is good option as if I want to re-import the songs in a different format, I can replace the AACs, whilst still keeping all the info for them.) I may never even re-import them, I just want that option to kind of future-proof my music, especially as I'm 22 now, so I'm expecting that at some point there'll be a better way of storing it.
In response to peeble; thanks for your point. I won't be converting up to AIFF from something like an MP3, only from the original CD version. Good point though and would have been helpful had I not known.
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Export/import song ratings across different playlists

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