Re: [Banshee-List] Library Metadata Storage

[Jon Cosby <jon jcosby com>]

On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 16:49 -0700, Arryc wrote:
> One of the options under Preferences allows you to "write metadata to
> files". If this option is not selected, then where is that data
> stored? Banshee remembers information for everything in its library,
> but that information has to be stored somewhere. If it's not in the
> files, then where is it? Let's say (hypothetically) I'm transfering
> everything to a new computer. I move over all my files, so I don't
> need to upload from CDs again, but for those files that were
> originally uploaded from CDs display "unknown artist" and "unknown
> album". That's a lot of files, and I don't want to go through and
> manually fix them all. How can I tell this banshee what the banshee of
> my old computer already knows? 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________

The tags are stored in a sqlite database,
~/.config/banshee-1/banshee.db. Album art is in ~/.cache/album-art.


Jon