Feature Request: Rating Development

[Katsini]

Not so much an issue as a plea for help, but was just wondering if there's a means of exporting user data ( saved ratings / play counts etc. )? Migrating to a new computer soon and don't want to lose hours of curation. I'm aware of the current rating implementation not writing to the audio files directly, so tried to look for where they might saved but had no luck finding wherever it's buried. Apologies in advance if this is the wrong channel for such feedback, but couldn't think of where else to direct to.

While I'm here though, my only other suggestions for streamlining ratings would be:

• Add sorting by rating. Unless I'm being a fool about it, doesn't seem there's a way yet
• Add the ability to rate from the toolbar, would be especially helpful for the Mini player ( see attached )

Should end by saying that without exception, even outside of audio players this is one of the best pieces of software I've used. For ease of use and consistent performance, Cog is without peer, thanks to everyone for their continued work.

[kode54]

I will be implementing a few things to help with this.

First, the ability to import or export persistent data entries (ratings, play counts, dates/times first seen and last played) as a JSON format. Importing will not remove entries not present in the JSON, but present in the database. It will, however, overwrite the database entries with whatever is in the JSON.

I may eventually add tag editing to the player, so that ratings may be written to files as well as be stored in the database.

Currently, you may migrate the full database to a new user profile or computer entirely, by duplicating the org.cogx.cog Container, since the app sandbox contains all of its settings.

At the very least, the folder:

~/Library/Containers/org.cogx.cog/Data/Library/Application Support/Cog

needs to be duplicated to the same location on a new user profile. I realize this isn't the most convenient thing, especially since the sandbox file access permissions stored within will be broken and need to be removed and re-granted.

The database also contains your full playlist and all metadata for the contained tracks.

[Katsini]

That's great, thanks for getting back so soon.

[sydney0zq]

@kode54

Thank you very much for developing this software. It's very good to use, and I have a similar dilemma regarding the rating.

I have a few questions that I would like to inquire about:

1. Where can I find this update in the code? I'm interested in attempting to make some contributions myself.
2. I noticed there is an SQLite database under Container/Cog. Could you please provide a brief explanation of the meanings of the fields?

[kode54]

I haven't updated the rating system to support import/export yet. It currently uses Core Data to store objects, and stores the extraneous metadata as NSDictionary objects encoded in the data entries. The structure of the SQLite file is mostly internal to Core Data itself. There is a manifest in the project which describes the current version of the data objects.

[sydney0zq]

I change "$HOME/Dropbox/Apps/MacOS-Cog" as an alias of "$HOME/Library/Containers/org.cogx.cog/Data/Library/Application Support/Cog", but it crashes. Hope to fix it in the later releases or option it in the settings panel?

[kode54]

Sorry, you can't alias folders into sandboxed apps.