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[khollister]

On the last import I ran to add some new movies, there are no sidecar XML files in the movie folder like before (there is a cover art JPG file), but the metadata scraped with Carnac shows in Theater View. I can't find a setting that would have changed this. Started with 17.0.75 and is still happening on 17.0.82

[Matt]

Sidecars are only written when you make a tagging change.  Carnac won't trigger a tag write, since everything it figured out it could just figure out again without the tag.

You could use 'Update Tags (from library)' to write sidecars.

[khollister]

I'm confused. What has been happening is I import MKV's, use "Get Movie & TV info ..." to lookup art and metadata and then hit "Use this data". A JPG cover art field and a JRiver sidecar file would get created in the movie folder along with the MKV.

Now I just get the cover, but the metadata is magically present in MC with no sidecar. Where are the tags stored? I didn't think MKV's could imbed tag info like MP3's?

If the tags are stored internal to the MC library, why was I getting sidecar files before? This behavior changed without an update - I was on 17.0.75 before and after - didn't change any options.

[khollister]

When I tried to update tags, I got an error message that I had disabled this. Went looking for an option and found "Update tags when file info changes" in the Edit menu. This was deselected. Turned it on and I can now generate sidecars. Don't recall turning this off, but I'm guessing this is the missing equation (obscure Star Trek reference)?