Hi there,
there is a workflow problem that has bothered me for quite some time -- perhaps somebody can help me with this. Any suggestions are welcome!
It concerns handling of embedded track ratings when sharing or exchanging music with other musicbee users. Consider the following example: I'll give my brother a tagged album with embedded ratings. (Note that I want my brother to see my ratings, because he wants to know which songs may be particularly interesting.) Then, my brother modifies these ratings to his liking in his MusicBee library. In the meantime, I modify the tags of said album on my computer -- for example, I correct a typo or embed higher resolution artwork.
At some point, I want to impart these updated files to my brother. I take it that if he just overwrites the files that I gave him the first time (via Windows explorer), all his rating modifications will be lost. So the only chance for his ratings to survive the file update would be to have MusicBee store the ratings only in his datebase. I imagine that if MusicBee identifies the updated files with the old files, then the ratings would subsist.
So perhaps somebody can tell me: How does MusicBee save the ratings when "Store ratings in the music file" is ticked? I guess in both the database and the music file. What happens after the file is updated and MusicBee is restarted? Does it synchronize the varying rating tags? If so: in what direction?
Or doesn't MusicBee recognize old and updated files as one and the same, treating the old files as deleted and the updated files as new, thereby deleting all the rating adjustments that my brother made since he imported the files the first time?
So has anybody a suggestion to update the files in my brother's library without overwriting his tags? All the ways that I can think would require MusicBee to identify the updated with the old files. Or is my reasoning completely off? In any case, is there a way to handle this (semi-)automatically without my brother having to re-rate the songs?
Theodor