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[LehighBri]

I am running MC10 and have rated many of my songs.  I am about to reformat my computer and have copied my songs to another harddrive.

If I reformat, will I lose all my ratings, or does MC write the ratings (and playcounts) to the id3 tag?  If it writes the info to the id3 tag I should be fine.  And one more thing, do you know which fields MC stores these items to in the id3 tag?

Thanks!

[LonWar]

As long as you back up your library you should be fine.
You can find instructions in the MC Help file.

File
Library
Back Up Library

Save it to a disc, and put it back on your computer after you format...

[LehighBri]

Perfect.  Do you know though if it indeed stores the ratings/play counts in the id3 tag or does it definitely not?  This will help me in syncing back to itunes to maintain my ratings (unless I can sync my ipod to MC10 and have MC10 use its ratings and playcounts).

[jleerigby]

It does store the ratings inside the file unless you changed the setting for this field via Tools> options> tree & view.

You can see the contents of the tags via a page in the Action Window.  I think it's something like File Info.