Edit the iTunes Music Library.xml

Hi,

I have moved some files to a netwrok share. I want to edit the iTunes Music Library.xml so i wont loose info such as playcount etc (and synces to appletv are reset). I know in the iTunes Music Library.xml there is a location string. So technically i could change for example:

<key>Location</key><string>file://localhost/Users/lowfi/Movies/1408.m4v</string>

into:

<key>Location</key><string>file://Volumes/External/Movies/1408.m4v</string>

Although this doesnt seem to work because every time i start itunes again it cant find the files When i close itunes again and open the xml again all previous changes ive done before are undone (yes i have saved changes )

Is there perhaps another way or am i missing something?


Thanks

I moved around 300 files so doing it one by one is of course a possiblity but i thought doing a simple find and replace in textmate would be a lot easier.

Imagine if i moved around 20gigs worth of music One by one... :Z

Ill try the script

thanks

Ok! Found it

So appereantly itunes first looks in the iTunes music library.itl file. If there is data in there it skips the xml file. So i removed everything from the itl file did a find and replace in the xml find and restarted iTunes. After that iTunes found all my newly editted files on a network storage

The script didnt work because in tiger, spotlight isnt able to search network shares. (the script uses spotlight to locate missing files)