Editing tags without modifying the files

[stf]

Is there any way of the editing the tags without file modification like in Media Monkey?

[Zak]

If you mean without updating the file's last modified timestamp, the option is in Preferences > Tags (1), near the top.

[psychoadept]

If you don't want to save the tags to the files at all, I don't think there's currently a way.  You can choose not to save ratings to the files, but that's it.

[beeing good]

I guess you might need this if you're part of a private tracker such as what.cd because if the tags get changed then the files won't seed properly anymore but as scampbll said I don't think there is a way.

[stf]

That´s exactly what I meant. I can´t seed the files properly with a torrent client after changing tags. Is there any plan to implement something like this?
Media Monkey does it , but apart from that is a crappy program. Foobar has a plug in for that. I think it saves all the tag data as external database.

[psychoadept]

Why not just copy the files?

[lnminente]

I thought there was an option for that before. Maybe in the plugin from Boroda74?
A workaround for this could running MB inside Sandboxie, so you would have only the modified files twice, being the ones shared untouched.

Anyway the really revolutionary good solution for this would be asking to the utorrent developers to treat the audiofiles by the checksum of their audio stream, and not by the checksum of the full file as the song files are only containers.

[stf]

Why not just copy the files?

Disk space. This is actually what everybody is doing on the private trackers, but is it really the best solution?

[greenday1987]

Yes it is the best solution. I bought a 2TB drive off of ebay for less than £100. I have all my seeding files separated into Lossless and lossy (FLAC vs MP3 mainly) then I have another folder that is my library where by I have each folder named in a nice OCD way and I can tag till my hearts content and everyone's happy

[lnminente]

It's time to backup my files and i just remembered this wish, and how useful it could be when doing the backup. Instead of copying a full file with only 30 chars changed, if we could keep the file untouched and save the changed tags in a database having the posibility of manually applying all the changes done to the files, we could do backups more frecuently copying only that database of changed tags.

[MeeMeeMee]

(first post - I actually registered to make it)
I recently discovered MusicBee, D/L it and it seems great... except for this one missing feature.
Yup, you guessed it: Please allow modifying tags without changing the media files by only making changes to the MusicBee's data-base.

That's the reason I just can't switch to MusicBee from MediaMonkey.

Is there any interest in among the developer(s) to implement this feature?

[Steven]

thats done for the next 2.1 update and set in the Tags(1) preferences

[MeeMeeMee]

thats done for the next 2.1 update and set in the Tags(1) preferences

Man, I'm totally stoked. Looking forward for the next beta build/version.

[MeeMeeMee]

My smart-alec-y wish is that the next 2.1 beta will be out already.

[VX]

My smart-alec-y wish is that the next 2.1 beta will be out already.

Here you go:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_1/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip