Itunes XML Location String

Hi Dudes and Dudettes,
I've recently been on a mission to convert all of my Winamp playlists to iTunes so I can keep them all in the same order for my iPhone (I'm extremely particular about how my playlists and filenames work, but that's a different story).
So, there is no way for me to import all playlists at once. I can import the folder of my playlists, which will import all the tracks, but will not retain the actual playlist names (which I need).
I can drag and drop each individual playlist into the library/playlists window, but to drag, drop, click to save list name, wait for tracks to import, scroll to the top of the window, rinse, repeat for my some 500+ playlists, is unbelievably time consuming.
My way around this all is to use PHP to read each m3u, get the mp3 path, and and then place each track into the itunes xml format for importing.
I have everything correct, EXCEPT the '<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/D:/Mp3's/Artist%20-%20Album/01%20-%20Artist%20-%20TrackName.mp3</string>' part.
I understand the above format, and that certain characters must be converted.
For this, I am using htmlentities($location_string,null,'UTF-8') to convert the string, and rawurlencode($location_string) to get close to what it is supposed to be. But this converts slashes and apostrophes and commas (which I've noticed after looking at what XML iTunes spits out, that these are not encoded characters at all). I also have tracks with other characters (i.e. Rammstein - Völkerball [Live In Nimes]).
So, after all of that explanation (and if you haven't fallen asleep yet) my question is, does any guru know what characters are allowed in the location string and what characters aren't?

One for each artist/album is correct.
And yeah.... while I'm particular about file names, not everything has album names or track numbers in id3, and if its from a compilation, it usually has different album names.

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I am experiencing a weird problem with my itunes music library seemingly being corrupted by Aperture, Apple's image processing application. The file path to my music file is being overwritten in the itunes music library XML file with a file path to one of my photos stored in Aperture! Has anyone experienced this issue? And more importantly, does anyone have a solution to the problem.
Here is what's happening:
1. I click on a music file in itunes to play it. Nothing happens - no music plays, no error message is displayed.
2. I open the itunes XML music library.XML file to see the path that itunes is using to locate the music file. I notice that the location key for the music file has been overwritten and now points to a random jpeg file that I have stored in my Aperture library.
Here is what the XML entry looks like for the music file. Note the path referenced in the location key. It no longer points to the audio file in my itunes music directory. Instead it points to a jpeg file in my Aperture library.
<key>1167</key>
<dict>
<key>Track ID</key><integer>1167</integer>
<key>Name</key><string>Hash Pipe</string>
<key>Artist</key><string>Weezer</string>
<key>Album</key><string>Hash Pipe (CDS)</string>
<key>Genre</key><string>Alternative</string>
<key>Kind</key><string>MPEG audio file</string>
<key>Size</key><integer>1152</integer>
<key>Total Time</key><integer>185704</integer>
<key>Track Number</key><integer>1</integer>
<key>Year</key><integer>2001</integer>
<key>Date Modified</key><date>2007-06-15T17:36:27Z</date>
<key>Date Added</key><date>2008-03-13T21:02:47Z</date>
<key>Bit Rate</key><integer>192</integer>
<key>Sample Rate</key><integer>44100</integer>
<key>Comments</key><string> </string>
<key>Persistent ID</key><string>285E19D7CE6E8007</string>
<key>Track Type</key><string>File</string>
<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/Users/ericwhalen/Pictures/Aperture%20Library.aplibrary/Glacier% 20Pix.approject/2007-06-15%20@%2009:27:19%20AM%20-%201.apimportgroup/IMG8045/IMG8045.JPG.apfile</string>
<key>File Folder Count</key><integer>6</integer>
<key>Library Folder Count</key><integer>3</integer>
</dict>
Has anybody seen this behavior before?
Thanks,

The file path to my music file is being overwritten in the itunes music library XML file
Okay but iTunes does not use the iTunes library.xml.
It is created for other apps to use the iTunes library.
What is the problem you are having?

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The library location is indeed stored in the iTunesPrefs.xml file. Look for the key "iTunes Library Location:1".
But I have a script that almost does what you want. Here is the perl source:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/itunesopenlibrary.txt
Here is a compiled EXE for it:
http://home.comcast.net/~teridon73/itunesscripts/itunesopenlibrary.zip
Anyway, the script basically works by setting the library location to a path that you pass to it. It does so by updating the iTunesPrefs.xml file. This file is very small, so you shouldn't need to worry about it!
Of course, the script only works if the iTunesPrefs.xml file already exists. It would be nice if you could include a template iTunesPrefs.xml in your new user creation/login script. If the path is the same for every user, well, then you're done I guess.
If not, you can run the script to set the path to what you really want it to be.
Existing users are a different story. You can run my script to change the library location, of course. But then you also have to move their existing library file and their music back to that location. Well, you don't have to; you can make the users do it themselves! Also, I don't know if that will work as I haven't tested it.
I haven't fully explained everything, but I don't have time right now. I hope at least I've given you some ideas. Of course the optimum solution is an Apple-provide GPO you could use. You can try asking apple for it via either a bugreport (if you have an ADC account), or the feedback page for iTunes:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
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How to construct a full script to address all known locations (4).
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~ ~
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display Artist list
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Play music
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D~

JavaScript embedded in a PDF cannot read arbitrary files from a local hard drive, neither can a SWF.

Itunes xml file corruption

I'd like to ask the community if anyone else is having trouble with corruption of their iTunes XML library file?
Back on October 20th, my iTunes library completely imploded: roughly one third of all songs stopped playing, all my Digital Copy movies refused to play. I had just upgraded my iPad to iOS 6 and pretty much everything imploded. The solution was to basically delete the iTunes XML files, re-install the software and then re-import all my uploaded music.
Yesterday, I connected one of my iPod Classics and saw the same error messages that started the first round of trouble: there were 7 files that iTunes claimed it could not sync with my Classic because they were the "wrong format". I checked each in turn and they turned out to be from 3 of my 650 or so albums. In each case I could click on the iTunes entry and nothing would play: no error was reported.
In each case if I pulled up the track information, I could see that the references for these 7 songs had been corrupted. So for example, the track "We Didn't Start The Fire", from Billy Joel's album, "Storm Front", had "Song Information" that said it was actually located in /iTunes/Crowded House/ - no album name or song name were included. Every one of the 7 "wrong format" songs had corrupted "location data" like this. The choice of the tracks that were corrupted appears to be largely random. However, I have noticed that corruption only seems to occur when I add new material to my iTunes database.
The first instance was a complete meltdown and required a clean re-installation of iTunes - literally hundreds of song entries were corrupted. This time around only 7 seem to have been impacted [though i concede it could be more].
I tried asking Apple support for help and although they were able to walk me through the repair process, they have been unable to explain why this corruption is taking place. I wonder if anyone has any ideas? For what little it may help:-
I am running iTunes 10.7(21) on a Mac Mini (OS/X 10.7.5(11G63)) with the 2.3GHz Core i5 and 8Gb of RAM.
My iTunes Library "XML" file is in my local home directory [default location], but because it's now well over 200Gb in size, all the music files for iTunes are stored in a QNAP NAS [works fine, local Apple folk helped me configure it].
It's difficult to triage exactly what's happening without having access to something like XMLspy and being able to work through the iTunes XML file piecemeal, but it does look like something during the "add songs to database" process is corrupting that file, and, interestingly, it adds new content fine - it's existing entries that get corruption.
My music library is not *that* big: the XML file is 15.2Mb on disc, iTunes is currently holding 659 Albums an about 7827 songs.
Does anyone else have ideas as to what might be causing this? It seems to be a relatively recent development, and since I rebuilt the database completely 6 weeks ago, this most recent damage is definitely a recent thing.
Suggestions gratefully received.

The XML file is a readable subset of the data in the main library file. If the library database becomes corrupt the easiest approach is to restore an earlier version.
Empty/corrupt library after upgrade/crash
Hopefully it's not been too long since you last upgraded iTunes, in fact if you get an empty/incomplete library immediately after upgrading then with the following steps you shouldn't lose a thing or need to do any further housekeeping. In the Previous iTunes Libraries folder should be a number of dated iTunes Library files. Take the most recent of these and copy it into the iTunes folder. Rename iTunes Library.itl as iTunes Library (Corrupt).itl and then rename the restored file as iTunes Library.itl. Start iTunes. Should all be good, bar any recent additions to or deletions from your library.
The images are from Windows XP but you get the idea. Your Mac library file may omit the .itlextension.
See MusicFolder Files Not Added and Super Remove Dead Tracks for tools to catch up with any changes since the backup file was created.
When you get it all working I'm told Carbon Copy Cloner can do the equivalent of this Windows based backup tip.
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Hi. I was wondering if someone could help me out with suggestions on converting my old WinAmp (.m3u) playlists into usable iTunes (.xml) playlists?
I have Windows XP Pro (with the latest Windows updates), and a brand new iPod 160 Gig Classic.
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I went back an read some of the comments and it sounds like it only works with older versions of WinAmp.
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or http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Audio-Convertors/M3UtoXSPF.shtml
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