Bug 186596

Summary:	Tags are not automatically updated
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	Thorsten Mühlfelder <thenktor>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Thorsten Mühlfelder 2009-03-08 23:36:34 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

If tags of files in the collection are updated by an external program (e.g. EasyTag), Amarok doesn't automatically update it's collection. The collection only gets updated, if the filename is changed, too.

Amarok 2.1 svn 20090308

Comment 1 Seb Ruiz 2009-03-08 23:40:16 UTC

What filesystem is your music on?

Comment 2 Thorsten Mühlfelder 2009-03-08 23:51:41 UTC

ext3

Also see http://amarok.kde.org/forum/index.php/topic,16628.0.html

Comment 3 Mark Kretschmann 2009-03-09 09:36:35 UTC

Sorry, this is not a bug, but an artifact of how Amarok's collection works: Amarok notices changes in the collection by monitoring the _directory_ mtimes.

So if you want a certain directory updated, you need to e.g. "touch" it (Unix command). If you write a new file to it, this will happen automatically, but not necessarily if you change an existing file, which leads to the situation you described.

Comment 4 Thorsten Mühlfelder 2009-03-09 12:19:09 UTC

I guess this one is somehow related to the same thing: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186169