Hello there!

My problem is: I have music from the same artist with different names:
"Chemical Brothers" "chemical brothers" "Chemical Brother" "The Chemical Brothers", etc...

To unify them all, I tag all of them as "Chemical Brothers".

When I use an external program to check the tags, they are now all Chemical Brothers. However, in the local collection, all the alternative names are still there! How can I make them go away? I already tried updating collection...

Thanks a lot!

also another problem.

when you want to exclude a directory from your collection how do you do it?

When I try to unmark one of the folders inside my /home/music directory I can't: It's grayed out

thanks!

Which exact Amarok version, KDE version, distribution are you using?

Kde SC4.4.2 amarok 2.3.0 ubuntu 10.04 LTS

thanks!

Did you activate the "Watch folders for change" option in the Amarok settings -> Collection ? Alternatively a full collection rescan could help, too.

For the greyed out entries: if you don't want certain subfolders, you need to uncheck the main folder first, then choose only the subfolders you want to add to the collection. It would be easier to not add those folders as subfolders, so you don't have to do the re-selection all the time. Make one folder with subfolders for the collection and put the music you don't want to have in the collection in another main folder you don't select.

Apparently, an amarok restart is enough to solve the problem.

The subfolder solution you propose is not the best IMO, but I think it will be the only easy way to solve it. Thank you

Hello,

recently, I had a similar problem. I found out that it is necessary to update some "time-information" (I think that it is called mtime but I am not sure) of the folder containing updated files. I use EasyTag for editing ID3 tags and there is a special setting (recommended for Amarok) to update that kind of time-info. Try it.

andreselsuave wrote:Apparently, an amarok restart is enough to solve the problem.

If you have Amarok2 set to watch for folder changes and if you are making more than a small number of changes (moving, deleting, or adding of content) there seems to be issues with database integrity. I have found it extremely common to have information show up in the playlist panel associated with other files after moving stuff around while Amarok2 is running. When this happens you will have the titles from one directory / album but the artist information from another. Closing Amarok2 corrects the issue though I generally close the application as soon as I see this behaviour to avoid file or ID3 tag corruption.

So far I have not seen this behaviour occur since I disabled "watch for folder changes" (which was also causing Amarok2 to stall as it tried to re-index a given directory) so it may be a concurrency issue of some sort.

Personally I just stick with the file browser since it works more reliably than the database view and does not require sane ID3 tags (which I often have no control over).

Cheers