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I think for an accurate sync its better to create a db file to work like this:

for each song:
1) for the first time:
a) store the sum of the playconts (p#) of itunes (e.g. 2) and wmp (e.g. 1) to db file (so 2+1=3).
b) set the p# of both itunes and wmp to sum (so itunes = 3 & wmp = 3).

2) after that (for example I listened to the song 5 times in itunes and 3 times in wmp but we don’t know this yet):
a) itunes p# will be (3+5=8) and wmp p# will be (3+3=6), but we need to see how many times we’ve played the song, so: for itunes (8-3=5) and for wmp (6-3=3)
b) stor sum of the played times + last db’s value in db file. that is 5+3+3=11
c) set the p# of itunes and wmp to the new value of the db file.

let me know if I didn’t make this clear.

thanks

Failed to get ProgramFilesx64 environment variable.

Any suggestion? As indicated, I am running Vista on a 32 bit

Thanks for putting this together.

Can I asked what program you used to compile the executable? I like the skin and fading menus.

Do you have the French version of iTunes? What about Windows?

I get an Unexpected Error when trying to sync from WMP11 tp Itunes 10 under windows 7.

I looked at previous posts and you seem to indicate having a french version might be an issue ? Was that confirmed ? Anything I can do to confirm it/help you find a fix/workaround ?

My scenario is exactly the same as you (1000′s of songs rated under WMP) but I got a shuffle 3g as a gift I’d like to load using ratings based selections so I’m locked to itunes which doesn’t have any ratings so I import playlists from wmp to itunes as needed which is a pain!.

I always turn off the features in both iTunes and WMP that tend to automatically change tags in music. For example, I turn off the options for automatically finding missing album information or album art, and the option in iTunes to keep the iTunes folder organized.

I don’t actually use iTunes or WMP to change ID3 tag information, so I don’t know if either software does anything unusual in that regard. I use Tag&Rename for that (though there are plenty of other good options).

I usually listen to music on my computer using WMP (and rate it there), and use iTunes to sync my music to my iOS devices. There’s no particular reason why I do it that way. That’s just how I use the software, and that’s why I needed something like Orzeszek Ratings.

As far as I know, iTunes never writes its ratings information into the ID3 tags, so if you sync ratings to iTunes you’ll change the ratings in the iTunes database but not the actual MP3 or AAC files themselves.

WMP will save its ratings information into the ID3 tags if the Maintain my star ratings as global ratings in files is selected. If you sync ratings to WMP with that option selected in WMP, it will write those ratings to the ID3 tag in the actual MP3 or AAC files themselves, and those ratings will be visible in WMP or in Windows Explorer even if you reset the WMP database.

There isn’t a command line switch at the moment, so you can’t automate the app to run daily etc. I’m swamped at work at the moment, so I can’t look at it right now, but that’s definitely a feature that needs to be in there.

thnx!