Hm, interesting approach. BTW, can you share your scripts that parse iTunes XML (I see (from WinAmp export) that the XML structure is quite straightforward, but I hate to rediscover the wheel (i.e. I am lazy )) ?

OK, I guess your best bet is to build all *0 (tune and playlist) and *1 (tag) files locally, transfer them over, remove database files (instead of bothering to recreate them) and let the player rebuild them from tag files.

As already said, playlist *0 files are simply arrays of 32-bit numbers (member's FIDs), so they should be very simple to construct from perl of whatever (no C needed, but watch for endianness). AFAIR, tag files are pretty free-form: tags can be in any order, you can add your own (but they will not end up in the database)....

Finally, maybe this is a good time to learn C? (says he, who is too lazy to parse a simple XML from Perl)

Cheers!