Comments on: Easily Import Song Ratings to iTunes

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:17:57 +0000

Thank you so much for this tutorial - it’s helped me on numerous occasions!

By: joecotellese

joecotellese — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:32:34 +0000

Rob,

Glad it worked for you, thanks for the update.

By: robthehall

robthehall — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:21:12 +0000

I successfully imported my ratings from Windows Media Player (on a Windows box) to iTunes (on a Mac). The only hitch I had was the relative pathnames that were encoded in the .m3u file. I just did a search and replace on “..”, and replaced it with the absolute path. For good measure, I also converted the backslashes to forward slashes and removed the CR’s.

Step 1 must be completed before step 5, or else it’ll just create a playlist with only the songs in it’s library.

Thanks for the post.

By: joecotellese

joecotellese — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:51:00 +0000

Interesting, I just verified this and everything works.

One possibility is the file paths in the M3U file don’t match up to the paths of the files that were dragged into iTunes.

For example, I have a drive dedicated to music. All of my music lives in M:\path\to\my\tunes. If I look at the M3U file, the path is correct. If I look at a particular song in the Get Info view of iTunes, the path is also correct.

Are you doing this on Windows or a Mac?

By: Jack Nance

Jack Nance — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:20:30 +0000

I tried this but it made duplicates of the songs and then the originals were ‘file not found’ I’ve tried it a couple of times. I did a drag and drop to put the original files into iTunes.