Amarok, Songbird, and other similar players...

[Rick Stevens]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2008 16:39:23 Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Dan Thurman wrote:
>>> This is a question that has been bugging me for awhile and
>>> countless of hours trying to fix song tags that seems to be
>>> overwritten, or so it seems.
>>>
>>>  From what I can tell, it *seems* to me that these players
>>> might be using their own "database" to write over the tags
>>> because no matter what I try via EasyTag,
>> Can't speak for the others, but afaik, amarok does not keep tags
>> internally, but only reads tags directly from the media files via taglib.
>>
> Can't speak for amarok2, but in amarok1 I have have many folders with music 
> that I have imported from vinyl, therefore having no native tags.  I have 
> entered the information on amarok and it has saved it, accessing it in future 
> with no problems.  I didn't use any tool, just manually entered the static 
> info for the album, then individual track info.  It must be stored in a db 
> somewhere.  HTH

I believe "~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db" is the spot.
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