Manually Managed Music - Music Restore after iOS4 Upgrade
I just upgraded my 3G iPhone to iOS4 (from 3.1.3).
Unfortunately the music and playlists (which were managed manually) did not survive the upgrade.
Does anyone know if the playlist names and audio file names were automatically backed up somewhere? If so, does anyone have any idea about how to extract that information?
Of course, ideally it would be great to just restore the folders and files. But, I assume that is not possible.
Thanks!
Fortunately, I was able to recover the files and playlist information manually.
The files themselves were located in the following directory:
/Users/USERNAME/Library/iTunes/Mobile\ Backups/BACKUPCODE/Media/iTunes_Control/Music
When these files are added to iTunes, it is able to recover the corresponding metadata (file names, albums, artist, genres).
The playlists are stored in a SQLite database.
/Users/USERNAME/Library/iTunes/Mobile Backups/BACKUPCODE/Media/iTunes_Control/iTunes/iTunes Library.itlp/Library.itdb
Which can be queried to get a listing of the old playlists.
Example:
select container.name, item.title, item.artist, item.album, item.album_artist
from item, container, itemtocontainer
where item.pid = itemto_container.itempid
and container.pid = itemto_container.containerpid
order by container.name, c.physical_order , item.album
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