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Title: What is Sidecar?
Post by: Marty3d on June 25, 2009, 04:40:28 pm

I've done some searching and just found that it has to do with tagging dvd's? Or something? Is it a standard of some sort? When I search for sidecar only, I get alot of drink recipes :)

Title: Re: What is Sidecar?
Post by: KingSparta on June 25, 2009, 08:10:26 pm

Bill Wilson, And Lois Wilson Had A Side Car

Title: Re: What is Sidecar?
Post by: raym on June 25, 2009, 09:15:46 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_file

Title: Re: What is Sidecar?
Post by: fitbrit on June 26, 2009, 01:29:02 pm

LOL... I didn't have the guts to ask this question. Thanks. :)

Title: Re: What is Sidecar?
Post by: fitbrit on June 26, 2009, 01:32:03 pm

Now that I know what it means, I'm really happy with the changelogs of the latest MC14 versions. I haven't tried them yet, but it's looking like a winning feature that I will be grateful for.

Title: Re: What is Sidecar?
Post by: benn600 on June 26, 2009, 05:06:41 pm

I've been asking for it with DVD rips for a long time now.  I didn't realize how expansive they could be--and help with any filetype that doesn't support tags.  Amazing!

Title: Re: What is Sidecar?
Post by: Marty3d on June 27, 2009, 03:28:21 pm

Sounds great! So, now how do you use it? Can you give an example? I guess within MC it doesn't matter...?

Title: Re: What is Sidecar?
Post by: Yaobing on June 27, 2009, 06:02:53 pm

Quote from: Marty3d on June 27, 2009, 03:28:21 pm

Sounds great! So, now how do you use it? Can you give an example? I guess within MC it doesn't matter...?

For all video except Windows Media (which can be tagged directly), in MC, Update Tags (from Library) writes metadata to a sidecar file.  Update Library (from tags) does the opposite - reading data from an existing sidecar file and importing them to library.