App Data & Playcounts
Find the data folder
Section titled “Find the data folder”To open Tauon’s data folder, go to Settings › System › Files and click Open data folder. The usual locations are:
| Platform | Path |
|---|---|
| Linux | ~/.local/share/TauonMusicBox |
| Flatpak | ~/.var/app/com.github.taiko2k.tauonmb/data/TauonMusicBox |
| macOS | ~/.local/share/TauonMusicBox |
| Windows | C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\TauonMusicBox |
| Portable | user-data, next to the program |
What’s in it
Section titled “What’s in it”| File or folder | Contains |
|---|---|
state.p | Your playlists, the track database and most settings |
star.p | Play counts, loves and track ratings, kept separately from the main database |
album-star.p | Album ratings |
tauon.conf | Settings, including advanced options not in the Settings window |
input.txt | Keyboard shortcuts |
custom_layouts.json | Your custom layouts |
theme/ | Your themes |
artist-pictures/ | Artist pictures |
presets/ | MilkDrop presets |
Files ending in .backup are automatic backup copies.
Resetting Tauon
Section titled “Resetting Tauon”Partial reset
Section titled “Partial reset”With Tauon closed, delete state.p and state.p.backup, and optionally tauon.conf. This removes all playlists and resets most settings, but keeps play counts, loves and ratings.
Full reset
Section titled “Full reset”With Tauon closed, delete everything in the data folder. All your Tauon data is lost unless you’ve backed it up.
How play counts are tracked
Section titled “How play counts are tracked”Play counts, loves and ratings in star.p are matched to tracks by file name, artist and title.
So to keep them, don’t rename files outside of Tauon. If you change tags with another program, right-click the tracks and choose Meta… › Rescan Tags (or Rescan Tags on an album heading). Tauon reads the new tags and carries the play counts over. Tags edited with Tauon’s own tag editor are handled automatically.
Recovering play counts for an album
Section titled “Recovering play counts for an album”If an album has lost its play counts, for example after you renamed its files, hold Shift, right-click the album heading and choose Vacuum Playtimes. This collects play counts from any track in the database with the same artist and title, ignoring the file name.