Need help: Best way to import/export library in my case?

Hello community,

I hope you can help me with my problem. I currently use Kodi on a Pi 3 with four HDDs - one connected to every single USB port available.

I'm planning on buying a NVIDIA Shield TV. My goal is to connect to the current Pi and add/scan all of my media via SMB. From now on the Pi should only serve as a NAS server, as I want to use the Shield TV as my only playback device.

My goal is to keep all the (custom) artwork, (custom) metadata and every other library information I manually edited over the years. Of course I also want to keep the "seen/not seen" tags as well.

I thought about exporting my library as described here, but the last time I did it did neither keep my "seen/not seen" tags nor do I want to have single JPEG/txt files in every single folder of my hard drives again. I also would love to avoid manually editing database files as I don't have much experience with it yet.

Did I make any mistake the last time I tried to export or is there any other method I should try in my specific case?

Feel free to ask if you need any additional information.

Thanks in advance for your help!

leland86

Quote from Klojum

The watched and resume statuses need to be activated in the advancedsettings.xml file, if you want to keep/export those settings.

Thanks a lot for the hint! Didn't know that before. Will definitely add that line when the import is about to happen.

Are there any other similiar commands I should add to my advancedsettings.xml? For example, I'd like to keep the "date added" information for all my video files as well as my music library, so I can use the "recently added" filter.