On Mon, 5 Nov 2018, Fred Gleason wrote:

They don’t. This was one of the fundamental design principles laid down at
the very inception of the project: the audio store contains *only* audio;
all other metadata goes in the SQL database.

Of course, one consequence of this approach is that if you lose the MySQL database, the audio files will be more or less useless.

If each audio file had headers carrying copies of the metadata, it would be possible to reconstruct the database fromt hem in the event of a disaster.


Rob


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