Change the "date added" column in Rhythmbox's DB to the creation time of the music file

update_date_added.py

import pathlib
import xml.dom.minidom

path = pathlib.Path("~/.local/share/rhythmbox/rhythmdb.xml").expanduser()
out_path = path.parent / "new_rhythmdb.xml"

print("Updating date addeds in", path, "and outputting to", out_path)

d = xml.dom.minidom.parse(str(path))

for e in d.getElementsByTagName("entry"):
    if e.getAttribute("type") == "song":
        artist = e.getElementsByTagName("artist")[0].firstChild.nodeValue
        title = e.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].firstChild.nodeValue
        mtime = e.getElementsByTagName("mtime")[0].firstChild.nodeValue
        firstseen = e.getElementsByTagName("first-seen")[0].firstChild.nodeValue

        if int(mtime) < int(firstseen):
            newFirstSeen = d.createTextNode(mtime)
            firstSeenNode = e.getElementsByTagName("first-seen")[0]
            for c in firstSeenNode.childNodes:
                firstSeenNode.removeChild(c)
            firstSeenNode.appendChild(newFirstSeen)

            print(artist, "*", title, mtime)

with open(out_path, "w") as out_handle:
    d.writexml(out_handle)

print("Copy", out_path, "to", path, "if you're satified with the results")