diff --git a/doc/tips/dumb_metadata_extraction_from_xbmc/git-annex-xbmc-playcount.pl b/doc/tips/dumb_metadata_extraction_from_xbmc/git-annex-xbmc-playcount.pl
index 76ad336494..3e2bd9bce0 100644
--- a/doc/tips/dumb_metadata_extraction_from_xbmc/git-annex-xbmc-playcount.pl
+++ b/doc/tips/dumb_metadata_extraction_from_xbmc/git-annex-xbmc-playcount.pl
@@ -1,7 +1,24 @@
 #! /usr/bin/perl -w
 
-my $dbpath="/home/video/.xbmc/userdata/Database/MyVideos75.db";
+# we want to operate on relative links, so set this to the common prefix
+# to the git annex repo
 my $prefix="/home/media/video/";
+# this is the directory for the XBMC database
+my $path = '/home/video/.xbmc/userdata/Database/';
+
+# no user-serviceable parts below
+
+# list videos database, find the latest one
+# modified version of
+# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4651092/getting-the-list-of-files-sorted-by-modification-date-in-perl
+opendir my($dirh), $path or die "can't opendir $path: $!";
+my @flist = sort {  -M $a <=> -M $b } # Sort by modification time
+            map  { "$path/$_" } # We need full paths for sorting
+            grep { /^MyVideos.*\.db$/ }
+            readdir $dirh;
+closedir $dirh;
+
+my $dbpath=$flist[0];
 
 my @lines = `echo 'SELECT playCount, path.strPath, files.strFileName FROM movie JOIN files ON files.idFile=movie.idFile JOIN path ON path.idPath=files.idPath;' | sqlite3 $dbpath`;
 for (@lines) {
@@ -11,7 +28,6 @@ for (@lines) {
     if ($count !~ /[0-9]/) {
         $count = 0;
     }
-    $dir =~ s/$prefix//;
     if ($file =~ s#stack://##) {
         for (split /,/, $file) {
             s/$prefix//;
@@ -22,6 +38,7 @@ for (@lines) {
         }
     }
     else {
+        $dir =~ s/$prefix//;
         my @cmd = (qw(git annex metadata --set), "playCount=$count", "$dir$file");
         system(@cmd);
     }