WMP persistent tagging

[pieroxy]

Hi there,

First off, let me say that I run Windows XP Media Center, so I am bound to use WMP if I want anything to appear on the MCE interface...

I have a problem with my non-mp3 collection. I have WAV files containing either AC3 or DTS music and all the tagging I can do on these files (author, genre, etc...) is just gone whenever I rebuild my library (delete all, reinstall, move file to another dir/drive, etc...). And I do not plan on tagging my files everytime WMP decides to erases it from its library... :(

Of course, MP3 files have this information stored in their MP3 ID3 tags, so it is persistent.

So I guess I can see two solutions to that problem:
A. Is there a way to back-up this database? Are the path stored in there as well? I guess if I move a file from a dir to another one I am screwed anyways...
B. Does another container exists (such as WMA) where I could store my music and that would support tagging? That way I could just transcode all my stuff and be done with it...

Anything else?

Thanks

[Stacey Melissa]

The WMP library database is located in C:\Documents and Settings\Your Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\ . Back when I was using WMP, I backed it up daily. That came in handy on more than one occassion. :)