Recently the fact that the automatic collection scan (Watch folders for changes) won't update if files are changed in place has been getting under my skin, so I wrote a short script (shell, not amaroK) to fix the problem.

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find * -type d|sed 's/$/\//'|egrep "^($1.*)$"|sed -e "s/^\(.*\)$/\"\1\"/g"|xargs -l1 touch
dcop amarok collection scanCollectionChanges

More details: http://toba.ath.cx:724/blog/archives/amarok-collection-update-script.html.

Edit: minor typo in my script fixed