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    Your question boils down to manipulation of text files. Please edit your question and post an example of your input file list and your desired output format. Just make a test playlist and post it's contents here so we can know what the format is like. By the way, what makes you think that clementine cannot read id3v2? It can, so perhaps the ratings are not in the tags but in an internal database stored by your old player.
    – terdon
    Commented Oct 22, 2013 at 16:35
  • There are a few different standards for the output and I don't know enough about the required meta information to know which to give (which is why I listed all of the alternatives). Also, I know that clementine cannot read id3v2 tags from flac because this is no standard tag for rating a flac, nor is id3v2 a standard flag type for flac files. Adding support for this is a somewhat debated topic on the clementine forums, but it doesn't seem to have been implemented. I added sample from one of the input text files.
    – William Everett
    Commented Oct 22, 2013 at 16:47
  • Ah, flac, OK, I thought you meant it cannot read id3v2 at all. OK, the playlist is going to need absolute paths, not relative ones like you have posted, could you also show the find/grep command you used? Where is your music stored? In ~/Music? Any of the playlist formats should be fine since they just point the player to the location of the files. Just pick a format and post a minimal playlist, that way I can write a little script that can create a file of that format.
    – terdon
    Commented Oct 22, 2013 at 16:55
  • Nevermind. I figured it out while reading through the documentation on the m3u standard.
    – William Everett
    Commented Oct 22, 2013 at 17:11