MediaSource : Tagging of AC3 Fi

I have recently started to import AC3 Files (Dolby 5.) into Media Source and merged with my large MP3 collection. That works perfectly and you can mix stereo MP3 and 6-channel AC3 in Playlists etc.
It is even possible with Media Source to tag AC3 Files with Track/Artist/Album/Genre like MP3. But how is this possible because AC3 Files - to my knowledge - do not have a meta data field like ID3 in the file structure ?
If these tags are not stored in the file, where does MediaSource store Meta Data information for the individual music files ? I have checked the whole folder structure, I couldn't find anything, and the original AC3 files where not changed by Media Source
Thanks for any clue.
Bernd

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