I see the rating in two places within MC13. In the main window where all my tracks included in the library are listed, I see the stars related to the rating (i.e. 4 stars = rating 4). And I see it within the little tag window on the left side, as a field amongst many other fields. So far I assumed that window displays solely tag information embedded into the file, but is that a correct assumption ?
If I now copy one of my tracks with Windows Explorer to another disk location, I can do two things that show the same problem:
1) I switch to another (i.e. empty) library within MC13, and import that track. This imported track will then not include any rating information (0 stars in the main window, and a "?" in the rating field within the tag window.
2) I stay within the same library which does contain the correct track information, but open the copied track from the new disk location just to play it. When I then bring up the tag window for that track, the rating field show a "?".
So I'm wondering where my ratings are really stored ?
To give you some more background why I even ran into the problem. I made a full copy of my original MC13 library, containing about 5000 tracks. The reason for a second library is to replace there over time the MP3 files with FLAC files. I will maintain the original library as "MP3 only", as I use it to feed an MP3 player that will not have enough capacity to carry all the FLAC files. In creating the second library, I used the "clone" function. Everything worked well, except that I lost for more than 60% of my files the rating information. I assumed the rating information is stored within the files, meaning I will never loose it when copying the files around.
Thanks for your help ! I need to solve this problem otherwise my "project" is dead because of too much manual effort.