mm_rating_to_itunes Error

[macnero]

Script works great. However I get the following errors:

 

ERROR: Got POPM value of 153, for which no translation exists

ERROR: Got POPM value of 204, for which no translation exists

 

Those files are 4 star in MM

[turingtest2]

Hi, 

I just found out Teridon's old site doesn't seem to work any more. I've managed to download a cached copy of the script however so I'll see if I can make sense of it. From what I understand the ID3 "Popularimeter" Rating can take any value from 1 to 255 with 0 being unknown. iTunes uses a value from 0% to 100% internally so I'm not quite sure why the script is using a lookup table instead of something like INT((X*100)/255), however since I really don't know Perl I might have to wrap my head around that first... 

Actually this shouldn't be too hard. Download a copy of Notepad++ open the script and either edit the existing lines that read 

"154" => 60,  # 3.0 stars

and

"205" => 80,  # 4.0 stars

to read 

"153" => 60,  # 3.0 stars

and

"204" => 80,  # 4.0 stars

respectively (no backwards compatability), or add the extra lines into the script so that the whole function reads as:

my %mm_to_itunes_rating = (

"13" =>  10,  # 0.5 stars

"28" =>  10,  # 0.5 stars

"23" =>  20,  # 1.0 stars

"53" =>  20,  # 1.0 stars

"54" =>  30,  # 1.5 stars

"78" =>  30,  # 1.5 stars

"64" =>  40,  # 2.0 stars

"104" => 40,  # 2.0 stars

"118" => 50,  # 2.5 stars

"129" => 50,  # 2.5 stars

"128" => 60,  # 3.0 stars

"153" => 60,  # 3.0 stars

"154" => 60,  # 3.0 stars

"179" => 70,  # 3.5 stars

"186" => 70,  # 3.5 stars

"196" => 80,  # 4.0 stars

"204" => 80,  # 4.0 stars

"205" => 80,  # 4.0 stars

"230" => 90,  # 4.5 stars

"242" => 90,  # 4.5 stars

"252" => 100, # 5.0 stars

"255" => 100, # 5.0 stars

);

Not tested, but there is really no reason to believe it won't fix the issue. And now you know what to do if other values cause problems.

tt2

[ter...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, March 2, 2013 11:15:05 AM UTC-5, turingtest2 wrote:

Hi, 

I just found out Teridon's old site doesn't seem to work any more.

Sorry, it was down because my ISP had a false detection of a virus on my site. It's back up now.

 

I've managed to download a cached copy of the script however so I'll see if I can make sense of it. From what I understand the ID3 "Popularimeter" Rating can take any value from 1 to 255 with 0 being unknown. iTunes uses a value from 0% to 100% internally so I'm not quite sure why the script is using a lookup table instead of something like INT((X*100)/255),

Because, at least when I wrote the program, MediaMonkey didn't use any sort of reasonable formula when assigning numbers to ratings.  Not one I could figure out, anyway -- so I used a lookup table.  I probably should've put in a linear formula as a backup but ... I just didn't.

The code is probably right, but most people don't have Perl installed on their system so they won't have a way to run the script.  In other words, one would have to install Perl (e.g. ActivePerl) and run itunes_scripts.pl.

[Steve MacGuire]

No worries,

I've download & installed ActivePerl, eventually managed to find and download the MP3-Tag library, got the MinGW C compiler installed, but I still can't work out how to get the MP3-Tag library integrated into the Perl environment so your script will work. Years of NOT reading manuals probably means I'm overlooking something obvious...

Steve MacGuire

  

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[Steve MacGuire]

Ignore my last message, found out how to install the MP3 Tag library. However it seems the source files that come out of teridons_itunes_scripts.zip don't match up with the text versions available on your site. They all seem to have a last line reading:

1;

and appear to exit without doing anything if run. Again, I'm probably misunderstanding how things are supposed to work and making unwarranted assumptions.

I've pulled the text version of mm_rating_to_itunes from your site and made that version of it work, however itunes_rating_to_popm isn't there and it would be nice to be able to run/edit the script version of that also.

Regards,

Steve MacGuire

 

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[turingtest2]

Oops, and I thought I was replying to the man himself instead of the Group! <insert embarrassed smiley> 

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Regards,

Steve MacGuire aka turingtest2

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On Thursday, March 14, 2013 4:57:47 PM UTC-4, turingtest2 wrote:

Ignore my last message, found out how to install the MP3 Tag library. However it seems the source files that come out of teridons_itunes_scripts.zip don't match up with the text versions available on your site. They all seem to have a last line reading:

1;

and appear to exit without doing anything if run. Again, I'm probably misunderstanding how things are supposed to work and making unwarranted assumptions.

The scripts in the source code are subroutines only; they are included from itunes_scripts.pl  -- i.e. you have to run itunes_scripts.pl and call the appropriate subroutine.  If you call them directly, they run without seeming to do anything because they just define subs.

The individual scripts on my site are indeed different and perhaps even more out of date -- but they should run as standalone scripts.

[Shermer321]

Is there any way of changing the script to run for all tracks and that is it? For some reason when I run the script after selecting all it only does a small portion. Any input would be great. I don't get an error, just press enter to exit.