Please confirm for me that the Times Played information is stored in the database, coz it's not displaying in my new set up.

This is indeed stored in the database.

For now playing go to the main website, select services, select now playing and select configure. It will give you your personal string to paste in. Thats the easiest way. Whats the "change database" feature? I've not seen this. If you ask me the best way to do it would be clear the .musikproject folder (i'm assuming this is the one in Documents and Settings and not for an individual drive) and run mC again. This will generate all the files needed in this folder. Then simply copy across the contents of your old .musikproject folder into this and all should work fine (assuming all files have the same path).
DiGiTaLFX

I'm not having any success with all this. I am feeling pretty fed up with it all. Surely this excercise should be straightforward. For many months I've used mC on my other PC. I now have a new one so I want to use mC on the new PC. I installed the latest version musikCube 1.0 RC1 and I want to use my database from the other PC.

I've transferred and set up every other bit of software on this new PC including a new OS, IE6, Firefox browser, Outlook Express, and so on. However mC is not playing the game, and I'm not happy. I require my favourite music player.

I should be grateful if you would instruct me how to get my database and settings from the other PC to the new one.

btw to find the "change database" feature File>Database>Change Database.

In my .musikproject folder I have two files: musik_u.db and musikCube_u.ini.

These bring with them the settings and queries which is good, however there is no sign of the Times Played.
That's now lost I 'spose

Last edited by MusicBringer (2005-10-22 10:08:45)

If your music isn't in the same directory, and you synchronize, then your ratings and times played information will not be retained.  musikCube basically uses the filename as the song's unique identifier -- so when a file is missing, it gets removed.  When the file is found somewhere else, it is added as a new one.

I'll try to find some time tonight to write a program to help the migration process.  It will be useful to have around.  Keep a copy of your original database.

Okay, heres a *SIMPLE* little program to help you do what you need. Before you start let me say it comes with no warrenties -- you agree (by downloading this application) that I'm not to be held responsable for anything bad that may happen.   

A rundown of how to use it:

Let's pretend I had an old computer with musikCube installed.  Certain files in my database were located in c:\music\, but I now have a new computer, and these SAME files are now located in f:\casey\music\.  The filenames in musikCube's database on the new computer are wrong -- musikMigrate is a tool to help you fix them.

1) download the file: http://www.musikcube.com/~casey/musikMigrate0.1.zip
2) extract anywhere, then run
3) Select the database you wish to migrate as the "Input Database."  PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR ORIGINAL BEFORE DOING THIS
4) Using my example, I will use "c:\casey\" as my OLD PATH.  These are where the files were located BEFORE (relative to the old computer)
5) I will use "f:\casey\music\" as the REPLACEMENT PATH.  These are where the files are NOW (relative to the new computer)
6) Press "OK," and wait for a confirmation dialog.

Literally, all filenames in the database beginning with "c:\music" will be replaced by "f:\casey\music" 

7) Repeat for different paths, if necessary. 

Hope this helps.

Well I've made a start on this transfer exercise.

I started again with a new mC, and newly imported .db file. I opened mC and it displayed all my (old) library. And it displayed my (old) Times Played. Hooray. However, nothing played coz it was pointing to my old paths.

Ran your program - thanks casey - directing the paths from the old music folder, to the new music folder. Away we go. Got the confirmation dialog ok and smiled. This is good.

Of course what I hadn't read was:

avatar3d wrote:

7) Repeat for different paths, if necessary.

and I regret to say that for me that is a task far to big to undertake; manually pointing at all my old folders for artists, albums, and so on, and redirecting to new Full paths. I can point to the root folder but not each and every sub-folder hanging on.

Nice idea, however not at all practical for my music folder structure - or have I made a mistake and got something wrong...

Last edited by MusicBringer (2005-10-23 08:36:36)

I understand.
Is there anyway I can read the db. I want to check my old filepath names. Otherwise I have to unplug all the leads here and go to the old pc and plug 'em all in again.

oh dear now having a problem with SQLiteQA.
I get this error message: