


In addition, MC can write tag information to media files.

MC is a database all tagging information is always stored inside MC's proprietary database. If you google "jriver tagging" you'll find quite a bit of info, including that wiki article. Your question is well though out, which is both rare and appreciated. I did some cursory searching of the archives before posting, but I was not able to find anything relevant to my queries. I hope this all makes sense, and I apologize if this has all been asked and answered before. If Media Center is storing ID tag data in an internal database, how do I sync these tags with the multi-track media files? I am worried that if I ever had to rebuild my Media Center library, I would lose all my changes to any metadata that wasn't stored in the media files (or the CUE files) independently of Media Center. Where can I find out more about where Media Center stores ID tag data, and how it is synchronized with the tag data in the media files themselves?Ģ. Which leads me to the conclusion that the ID Tag data is being persisted somewhere else, perhaps in an internal database of some kind?ġ. However, when I modify ID tags for the music in these multi-track FLAC files, I observe that the file modified timestamp does not change, yet the modified tag data appear to persist even after quitting and re-launching Media Center. Previously I've only ever had single-track FLAC files in my library. These files are all accompanied by CUE files with some basic track details in them. However, I've just started to import a new set of music files into my library which consists of "monolithic" FLAC files, i.e., each media files contains an album with multiple tracks. I deduced this from the fact that as I edited tags inside Media Center, I would see the file modified timestamps on the media files change simultaneously. My question for the moment is, where are the ID Tag data stored? I initially thought that they were stored in the media files themselves. I'm a relatively new used of Media Center, so there's still a lot for me to learn about the theory of operation with large collections of music (almost exclusively classical and opera), because this is obviously a program with a very deep and mature feature set.
