This add-on is for use with MediaMonkey v3.x. It restores or merges the playing history (the Played table and Playcount + LastTimePlayed fields in the Songs table), the DateAdded field and/or the playlists (both auto-playlists and static ones in Playlists and PlaylistSongs tables) from some backup database file. It could restore/merge data for all tracks in the current database or just filtered ones.

This add-on restores/merges only data for tracks that are matched between current and backup database files. The track from the backup file is considered as matched with the track from the current database file if they have same: 1. full paths (folder\filename.extension) OR 2. checksums (made after click on Files To Edit / Duplicate Content) OR 3. filename with extension AND FileLength AND Album AND Year AND TrackNumber OR 4. filename without extension AND SongLength AND Artist AND Album AND Year AND TrackNumber.

The second and third criteria cover situations with modified track locations after backup. The fourth criterion further covers situations with different audio formats in backup and current databases, e.g. if the backup database contains .flac tracks and the current database contains .mp3 tracks with the same filename, song length and other mentioned tags. The 2-4. criteria have the true condition only if there are exactly two matched tracks - if there are three or more tracks matched with those criteria, they would return the false condition and such tracks should have same full paths to be considered as matched.

Warning: if you choose the Clear Played table... option, the current Played table and playstat fields would be overwritten after applying the Restore option! Same state for playlists and Clear Plalists... option. If you want to merge data, you should leave those options unchecked.

If you run this add-on twice with the same backup file, it will not add play counts twice - the add-on will compare playing dates from Played tables of backup and current database files and if they are same it will not count them. However, you need to have the correct Played tables with all play history in both database files, it is not enough to have filled just Playcount and LastTimePlayed fields in the Songs table.

For a discussion about this add-on, you could visit the related MediaMonkey forum thread.

Download: Latest version of the add-on You could also take a look on my other add-ons for MediaMonkey: Magic Nodes RegExp Find and Replace Invert Selection/Select None Export M3Us/Create Playlists for Child Nodes Expand Child Nodes/Expand All Event Logger Filtered Statistics Report Track Redirection & Synchronization Find Currently Playing Track Queue List

Visitors since 2009-08-19

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What is new:

v1.4.1 - 2009-11-16

• Fixed: error when database contains multiple playlists with same name on the same folder level.

v1.4 - 2009-08-28

• Added: option to restore playlists (both auto-playlists and static ones);
• Added: option to merge playlists (if Clear Playlists... option is turned off);
• Added: extra matching test for FileName/SongLength/Artist/Album/Year/TrackNumber fields (useful if audio format of tracks is different between backup and current database).

v1.3 - 2009-08-26

• Added: extra matching test for FileName.ext/FileLength/Album/Year/TrackNumber fields, i.e. track from current database is same with the track from backup database if all those fields are same, even if their paths and checksums are different.

v1.2 - 2009-08-23

• Added: option to restore Date Added field;
• Added: option to restore only filtered tracks;
• Added: option to merge/clear playstats before restoring data;
• Added: display of the number of tracks in the current database matched to backup.

v1.1.2 - 2009-08-21

• Fixed: work with multiple tracks with same checksum.

v1.1.1 - 2009-08-21

• Fixed: work with databases without track checksums.

v1.1 - 2009-08-21

• Added: matching test for track checksums, i.e. track from current database is same with the track from backup database if checksums are same even if their paths are different;
• Improved: speed drastically (~60 times faster);
• Fixed: matching test for paths now use serial number of disc as well to avoid situations with tracks with same filename, but different drive (c:\track.mp3 and d:\track.mp3 was incorrectly manipulated as one track).

v1.0 - 2009-08-19

• First public version.

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