Application to help sync your WMP and iTunes libraries

  • 12-19-2005 1:00 AM In reply to

    RE: Application to help sync your WMP and iTunes libraries

    I'm very grateful for the MusicBridge app and with a bit of careful use it really does solve the iTunes to WMP problem for iPod/MCE users.

    I did have one issue with it to do with it seeming to modify every mp3 file, every time it is run. I guess this won't be noticed by everyone (except it takes a long time when you have 30Gig of music). However, I back up my music to another hard drive (as well as my iPod) and this was causing me to run a 30gig backup over my network every night unless I manually set the modified date tag.

    The following batch file should help you if you want to run MusicBridge unattended with a suitable date. It uses a little dos command I found on the web, details below.

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    REM run musicbridge with my settings
    REM
    REM Using realdate from web
    REM http://www.huweb.hu/maques/realdate.htm
    REM


    call lastrun.bat

    musicbridge.exe -AlliTunesToWMP -SourceModifiedDate %mbdate%
    musicBridge.exe -synciTunesPLToWMP -SmartPL -SourceModifiedDate %mbdate%

    realdate /f="DD/MM/YY" /s="set mbdate=" >lastrun.bat

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    I save this as a batch file in the same folder as MusicBridge and also the program "realdate" from http://www.huweb.hu/maques/realdate.htm .

    Works a treat when run everyday.

    The first time you run it, "lastrun.bat" won't exist but this will be created and available the next time.

     

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