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| We're glad you decided to switch to Nightingale. However, you will surely want to keep your library, preferences, etc. As Nightingale is based on Songbird, you can continue with the same profile. So **everything will get migrated**, including but not limited to playlists, Smart playlists, Playlist folders (via Playlist folders Songbird Add-on only), Add-on preferences (only add-ons available for both Songbird and Nightingale), Play-counts and Skip-counts, Preferences, custom Meta-data and Ratings. | We're glad you decided to switch to Nightingale. However, you will surely want to keep your library, preferences, etc. As Nightingale is based on Songbird, you can continue with the same profile. So **everything will get migrated**, including but not limited to playlists, Smart playlists, Playlist folders (via Playlist folders Songbird Add-on only), Add-on preferences (only add-ons available for both Songbird and Nightingale), Play-counts and Skip-counts, Preferences, custom Meta-data and Ratings. | ||
| However, **you will loose all add-ons that are not compatible to Nightingale**. | However, **you will loose all add-ons that are not compatible to Nightingale**. | ||
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| + | This guide also applies to Legends Media Player, however the profile folder is called "Legends2" instead of "Songbird2". | ||
| ====== Migrate from Songbird to Nightingale ====== | ====== Migrate from Songbird to Nightingale ====== | ||
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| ===== STEP 3: Modify database locations ===== | ===== STEP 3: Modify database locations ===== | ||
| - | Unless you want to share the database between Songbird and Nightingale, you have to change the locations of the databases in prefs.js right in your profile's folder. Change the prefs "songbird.library.loader.0.databaseLocation", "songbird.library.loader.1.databaseLocation" and "songbird.library.loader.3.databaseLocation" to point to the "nightingale" folder instead of "songbird2". You should only need to replace "songbird2" with "nightingale" after the comma, see the example below. | + | Unless you want to share the database between Songbird and Nightingale, you have to change the locations of the databases in prefs.js right in your profile's folder. Change the prefs "songbird.library.loader.0.databaseLocation", "songbird.library.loader.1.databaseLocation" and "songbird.library.loader.2.databaseLocation" to point to the "nightingale" folder instead of "songbird2". You should only need to replace "songbird2" with "nightingale" after the comma, see the example below. |
| <code>user_pref("songbird.library.loader.0.databaseLocation", "/home/user/.songbird2/zh47pq6d.default/db/main@library.songbirdnest.com.db");</code> | <code>user_pref("songbird.library.loader.0.databaseLocation", "/home/user/.songbird2/zh47pq6d.default/db/main@library.songbirdnest.com.db");</code> | ||
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