[PLUG] Need XML editor

Mike Connors mconnors1 at gmail.com
Fri Dec 4 06:07:12 UTC 2009


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> In Rhythmbox on my desktop I have a playlist of over 50 classical music stations
> around the world. I wish to use the same list with Rhythmbox on my Fedora 11
> laptop. 
>
> There exists a rhythmboxdb.xml file in ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/, but it
> contains every song that you have ever played, including local mp3 files. At
> the very end it has the list of radio stations with the header "iradio" at the
> start of each entry.
>
> I need to delete everything except the "iradio" entries and save the file as a
> new XML file. I can open the file in OOo Writer, but Writer can't figure out
> how to save it as an XML file. Ditto for Gedit.
>
> Is there a simple XML editor that I can use for this task? Alternatively, is
> there a different music player that can import this playlist?
> _______________________________________________
I use Bluefish editor for this kind of stuff. I believe Banshee replaced 
Rhythmbox
as the default music player in Karmic. It has a Rhythmbox migrator which 
can import your Rhythmbox collection, including ratings, play counts, 
and playlists.




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