Backup

Hard disk don’t believe in eternal life. They might last long but one day they crash. Dropping the unit, theft, fire, etc. there are some sound reasons to backup your music collection.

What to backup

Of course all your music files.
You might also backup the library but almost all of the information in the library is also written in the tags. If you import your music files, almost all of the information is restored.

WAV is a known expection to this rule, tagging WAV is not supported in WMP.

A simple check is to tag a song and move it to another computer or a portable.
If all your edits are in place, you are fine.

Try this with all the audio formats you are using

Play list are stored in the music directory in a folder aptly called Playlist

Cover art is stored in the same folder as the album.
These are system files and therefore hidden by default.

You can store the album art in the song just like any other tag.