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Duplicate Winamp Media Library ratings & playlists across a LAN or after changing .

This is an advance topic.  I am not going to have pics.  This is mostly for people who share music over a LAN with other computers.  In my situation I started using Vista & still need XP to do most things.  My Media Library ratings & music drive are located on the XP computer.  Moving the ratings isn't as easy as backing up the settings & copying them to the new computer.  The network location is different than the local path to the music files.

This will also work if you changed the drive letter that your music is located on for a stand-alone computer.

 

• You must go on the computer with the ratings & playlists you wish to duplicate.

• Open Winamp and load the Media Library.

• Go to Top Rated.

• Sort the Top Rated by Rating.

• Once sorted I started my single left-clicking on the top rated song & held the Shift key while I used the arrow keys to select only the 5's first.

• I then sent the highlighted list from Media Library to the active playlist.
  • Single right-click on the highlighted files to select Play in the context menu that pops-up.

• From the playlist window you must save the playlist of all the songs rated 5's as an .M3U file.
  • Under Manage Playlist in the bottom right corner you should single left-click on Save playlist.

• Now open the .M3U file in Notepad.

• Under the Edit menu click on Replace.

• Replace C:\MP3\music.mp3 with \\server\share\music.mp3.
  • I don't know what the locations are on your computers but it must be valid from the remote computer.

• Save this modified .M3U file to a shared location on the network.

• Import the modified .M3U file on the networked computer & you should be able to select all the file in the playlist and rate them all at once to whatever rating they had on the old computer.

• Repeat this for songs rated 4, 3, 2, 1 or until you are happy.

• Replacing the location will work for playlists you might want to share as well.