Editing metadata only reflects inside Lune

[adarsh1001]

Hi, wanted to check if this is a bug or a feature. When you edit the metadata of a song, like album cover or song title or artist name, etc, the changes are not reflected outside Lune. Steps to reproduce:

1. Choose a song and edit its cover, song title and artist in Lune.

2. Save.

3. Open the song via another music app like Auxio.

4. It'll show the original cover, song title and artist only, not the updated one.

Is this expected?

[MrDemonc]

Hello, this is expected behavior.

Lune currently stores metadata edits (such as title, artist, album art, etc.) only within the app itself and does not modify the actual tags embedded in the audio file. Because of this, other music players will continue to display the original metadata stored in the file.

If metadata changes were written directly to the audio file, they would be visible across all music players and media libraries. At the moment, edits made in Lune are intended for use within Lune only.

[adarsh1001]

I see. In the future, planning to add an option to change this behavior (i.e., make permanent edits)? Or perhaps adding backups so that if we reinstall Lune, at least all the edits can be recovered?

[TitanOfTrig]

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