Recovering playcounts for music library

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I recently had to reset my windows 10 machine. Before I did I backed up the Plex Media Server folder from %localappdata%. I tried copying it after installing Plex again but it didn’t work. All I really want is my song playcounts for my music anyway, is there a specific file I can copy across?

You might want to check out these two support articles…


Thanks, I’ve read both. I thought I followed the “Move an Install to Another System” exactly but it didn’t work. I didn’t really care though because the metadata I got for my music by adding it again is much better. For the life of me I can’t figure out SQLite from the second post. I added it to path and the command

echo ".dump metadata_item_settings" | sqlite3 com.plexapp.plugins.library.db | grep -v TABLE | grep -v INDEX > settings.sql

just doesn’t work. Is there a better set of instructions on how to use sqlite?

I suppose the instruction you found isn’t actually compatible with Windows (this should however work on macOS or Linux).
That being said… I’m not a Windows user myself, so I’ll be of little help “translating” this. Sorry.

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