tag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:/discussions/questions/2181-hierarchy-of-itunes-and-beatunes-syncing-fairly-urgentbeaTunes: Discussion 2014-10-21T15:27:46Ztag:help.beatunes.com,2009-07-24:Comment/288970832013-09-19T08:03:47Z2013-09-19T08:03:47ZHierarchy of iTunes and Beatunes syncing, fairly urgent.. <div><p>Hi Matt,</p>
<p>first of all, look for your <code>iTunes Music
Library.xml</code> or <code>iTunes Library.xml</code> file. It
should be somewhere in your music folder (depends on operating
system). If you haven't re-installed iTunes yet, it still contains
all your playlists. You might want to make a copy of that
file—or perhaps you have a copy of that in your Time Machine
backup (if you use Time Machine, that is).</p>
<p>Because that's basically the file beaTunes reads, when importing
data from iTunes. It is overwritten by iTunes whenever you change
something in iTunes.</p>
<p>Anyhow. Assuming you have beaTunes running and it hasn't
<em>synced</em> with iTunes yet, you have to prevent that from
happening. To do so, you have to somehow reach the beaTunes
preferences and deactivate <code>Sync on Window change</code>.
Because basically what beaTunes does when it claims it is syncing,
is reading the iTunes library from <code>iTunes Library.xml</code>
and adjusting its own data to match the iTunes file (this includes
deleting tracks from its own database).</p>
<p>If you managed to disable automatic syncing, exporting
individual playlist via right-click on a playlists and then
choosing <code>M3U8</code> as format (iTunes can import it).<br>
You may also try to enable <code>Automatically export
playlists</code> from the beaTunes General preferences. All
playlists are dumped to something like
<code>~/Music/beaTunes/XXLibrary/Playlists</code>—but it may
take a while.</p>
<p>Well. I hope this helps somehow. Please let me know, whether you
were able to restore your lists.</p>
<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>-hendrik</p></div>hendrik