{"id":373,"date":"2013-01-13T10:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T00:38:08","slug":"using-kaleidoscope-to-sync-itunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"Using Kaleidoscope to sync iTunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you, I have multiple iTunes Libraries. One for the laptop, one for the house and another for my media center. Keeping these in-synch with almost 6,000 songs and over 1100 TV shows as become more than laborious.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to use Supersync in the past and while attempting to use it yesterday, I ran into a &#8220;must download Java 6 SE&#8221; issue that I really didn&#8217;t want to solve. (Hint: google &#8220;Java zero day&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So I considered for about 10 minutes, exporting the Library in XML format, converting to SQL and using Base to analyze. (yeah, overkill but it would have been interesting and fun!)<\/p>\n<p>It dawned on me that my favorite new programming tool would be perfect for this activity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidoscopeapp.com\" title=\"Kaleidoscope\" target=\"_blank\">Kaleidoscope<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Kaleidoscope is a folder and file diff tool that is quite capable and very smart. The new version 2.0 is what I&#8217;ve always wanted in a diff tool.<\/p>\n<p>So my work stream is the following:<br \/>\n1) Use <a href=\"http:\/\/dougscripts.com\/068\" title=\"Export Playlists as Text\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Export Playlist as Text&#8221;<\/a> script from Doug&#8217;s Applescripts for iTunes. Install into your iTunes Scripts library.<br \/>\n2) Use the Export&#8230; on both machines (or libraries) to create a text file listing the Songs, TV Shows etc. I used ## as a delimiter as the &#8220;,&#8221; can appear in song titles and the script doesn&#8217;t recognize &#8220;\\t&#8221; as a tab.<br \/>\n3) Drag both text files to Kaleidoscope and examine the results! Kaleidoscope is quite smart and will show you blocks of songs that might be missing between the two databases. <\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you, I have multiple iTunes Libraries. One for the laptop, one for the house and another for my media center. Keeping these in-synch with almost 6,000 songs and over 1100 TV shows as become more than laborious. I have tried to use Supersync in the past and while attempting to use it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Kaleidoscope to sync iTunes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[24,5],"tags":[31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvRD1-61","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=12","url_meta":{"origin":373,"position":0},"title":"TextMate \u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Missing Editor for Mac OS X","date":"May 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"TextMate \u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Missing Editor for Mac OS X. 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