Export user data in an open format

Feature requests
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Feature description:

I’m currently going through my ~6000-song library attempting to give a star-rating for use with shuffle, smart-playlists, etc. It’s a lot of work, and I would like it to be compatible with my desktop players, etc. Is it possible to write the rating into the file when the music file is a file on the local device?

Problem solved:

Ratings backup, cross-platform ratings compatibility

Brought benefits:

Being able to use work I’ve put in on Symfonium across my devices

Other application solutions:

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Additional description and context:

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This is not possible and out of scope of Symfonium.

In the future what may add is export in a readable format so you can write scripts.

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I would take that! just to clarify - currently Symfonium backups include ratings right? What happens if a file is moved into a different directory or renamed?

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No the backups does not have ratings yet. And if it had renaming a file would lose the data.

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Understood on both points. is there any plan for incorporating ratings in those backups soon? I need to factory-reset my phone at some point soon and am wondering if I should stop rating things since i’m just gonna wipe it.

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Not soon no, this is insanely complex to manage all the different provider difference and different sdcard mount name and the tons of this that would make restore not working :slight_smile:

But I can try to plan basic data export in a month more or less.

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very understandable. thank you so much, that’d be wonderful!

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Is writing ratings to file (with a local source of course) outside the scope of Symfonium?

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Yes Symfonium won’t write to the media files.

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Thanks, that’s exactly the info I was searching for. I saw that cloud sources are read only, so I wasn’t sure if mixing local and cloud would result in some ratings being saved and some not. As of now, I’m just using Winamp on Windows to add ratings, because I want them saved cross platform.