Re: itunes: how to change a track's "date added" info
Re: itunes: how to change a track's "date added" info
- Subject: Re: itunes: how to change a track's "date added" info
- From: olli <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:38:48 +1000
hi johnny
I fought with this, too. There's a complicated procedure wherein you export
the current Library, delete the references to the songs you want altered
from the Library, alter the exported Library.xml file to reflect the date
changes, then import the file. You have to *really* want to change the date
added key to make this worthwhile.
this sounds _very_ interesting. what are the exact steps for this procedure?
i'm not too familiar with the library structure in iTunes, but as a
first bet i'd say:
a) save the library as xml
b) change the desired added date values
c) import the xml file.
but i have two questions:
i) how does itunes match the library entries to the real songs?
ii) what happens when i screw the xml up? does it render the whole
library useless?
I'm not exactly sure why the iTunes team finds this data field sacrosanct;
or perhaps it's that they cannot imagine a need to change it, so they
concentrate development efforts elsewhere.
Given the number of times my iTunes Library has become corrupt/wonky and
required deletion and rebuilding,
how do you "rebuild" the library? from the given song files? but what
about the extra non-mp3-tag info like comment enabled, etc?
Another thing you can do, if it's some sense of accuracy as to when the file
was truly added, you can read the actual creation date (which is usually the
same day it was added to the Library) of the file in Finder and report that
via AS.
tell application "iTunes" to set l to location of current track
-- > alias "storage38:music:_ And the Mysterians:Unknown Album:96 Tears.mp3"
tell application "Finder" to set da to creation date of file l
-- > date "Tuesday, May 9, 2000 5:56:25 PM"
this sounds interesting, too. in the case i could figure out a way to
modify the added date info i'd be able to change it for all songs from
the lib to the corresponding file date, couldn't i?
this is great because occasionally i re-add songs a second time in order
to put them into a second album (with out the need of playlists). then
with the click of a button i could consolidate the added date info!
thanks, olli
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