Trackstat and Musicbrainz

[yocky]

Yep, I'm pretty sure all those boxes are ticked. I'll start another thread.

Thanks for your help.

[reniera]

As I understand it, tagging files with Musicbrainz will enable my ratings to survive when I rename or move the files (or both) because the files are uniquely identified by the Musicbrainz IDs rather than location and filename.

First of all, is my understanding correct? And if so then would the ratings survive being moved/renamed in any circumstance or would I require a full rescan followed by a restoration of the ratings from a backup file? I ask because my few tests of this have resulted in my rating being lost...but I haven't tried the complete rescan yet.

I tried that and gave up. Fact is that over time, musicbrainz'db gets updated so frequently that you'll loose for sure your ratings at some point in time. Ratings should be stored in the media file itself. Trackstat is flawned by design. It just can't work unless you decide your files are perfectly tagged once for all. This is not true in reality especialy if you use musicbrainz because veryone contributes to musicbrainz so it's evolving permanently. Trackstat backup and restore simply never worked for me.