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Question about External Tags component

I have a playlist of about 300 streaming radio stations that has come to be the source of most of my Foobar listening.  I finally figured out that I could name the stations and identify where they are from with External Tags, and then also match the station with an image with a custom script in the Album Art search pattern box.  So, ends up looking like the below.

I'd like to share the playlist and the images (and the custom script) with friends.  Just copying the playlist and adding the External Tags component to a friend's setup doesn't seem to work (the external tags do not appear).  If I understand, I need to copy a SQLite library?  Where is that stored?  Any hints as to how I might accomplish this?

One possible complication: I created the playlist and the external tags in 32-bit Foobar 2.0 (in which, if I understand, the plug-in works differently), although I also have it set up and working in Foobar 2.0 64-bit.

Thanks much,
N.



Re: Question about External Tags component

Reply #2 –
If you used the default settings in the component the radio station tags were written in APE tags in profile\external-tags directory. You'll see one file per url in there.
If you configured External Tags to be written in SQLite database, your data is in profile\external-tags.db file. You can copy them from profile to profile, bitness of foobar2000 doesn't matter.

You can access the "profile" directory easily by holding Shift while you click the File menu in foobar2000 main window, then select "Browse configuration folder".
 

Re: Question about External Tags component

Reply #3 –
Thanks very much, Case.  Found the files, yes, in  profile\external-tags directory.  Very helpful.  And thanks, of course, for the great plug-in.  Has made a bit difference.  N.

Edit: And I'm assuming, then, that a friend's setup, she would brows config folder, as above, and then copy my folder into that directory, as is.  Easy.