Where is the Genre Listing Located?

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Zengineer
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Where is the Genre Listing Located?

Post by Zengineer » Sun Dec 02, 2012 12:40 am

Hi, I'm trying to do a small edit to how the genre list (for tagging the metadeta of a file) is saved. I've added custom genres and tried to find the file where they're stored in through the console, but I'm not coming up with anything. Where exactly is the genre list saved?

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Re: Where is the Genre Listing Located?

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun Dec 02, 2012 5:50 am

What change exactly do you want to make?

When you save a custom genre list you can find it at genres.txt in the Audacity folder for application data .

If you want to modify the list so that when you reset it, it defaults to something of your own choosing, see src/Tags.cpp in the source code. Changing that requires rebuilding Audacity.

If you save a metadata template you can see where it is saved.

If you save metadata in an Audacity project, the metadata is stored in the project file.


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