Gragh!  I've just spent twenty minutes just trying to get a new directory of songs imported, and still can't figure out how! Is there some simple obvious shortcut that I'm missing?  In my seven year old MusicMatch ver8, there was just a simple "Add to Collection" button - when you've got new music, you click it, navigate to the folder, and presto!  I've been hunting all through Amarok and can't find a way to do this yet.    I went into the settings and manually added the directory to the "checked" directories, then had it update collection, but it doesn't seem to have picked up the new music.  "Rescan Collection" produced a total disaster - all the albums that I had been meticulously regrouping and (supposedly) correcting their tags to match, have all now collapsed back into the unruly mess they were when first scanned.    It seems none of the tag changes actually were made? 

Ack, phhllbbt, help....

Edit:  OK, naturally, just after posting, I figured it out - Navigate to the directory in the Files window, select what you want, and right click "Add to collection".  Duh.  But that still doesn't explain why rescanning the collection wrecked all my supposedly corrected ID tags... 

I think this behaviour is not normal, as Amarok does not edit the tags unless you tell it to...

Enric Likes Funk wrote:I think this behaviour is not normal, as Amarok does not edit the tags unless you tell it to...

As an example...

I have an album with the artist name spelled incorrectly.  I right-click the album and choose "Edit information for # tracks".  I then paste in the correct artist name and click "Save and close".  It seems to work, and the album is grouped properly with the artist's correctly-spelled name, but if I rescan the collection, it loses this fix and goes back to being incorrectly spelled.

Wait, I may see what's happening - I did not have "per track" checked, and I'm guessing that means that Amarok simply logged my correction in its own database without actually changing the track tags, thus causing them to be thrown back to their old state on a rescan.  I think...

I noticed odd behavior like this a few times also. I finally went into my ogg or mp3 directory, and changed the incorrect spelling of the artist folder, album sub-folder, or track title. For some reason, a few of them were imported incorrectly by Grip or KaudioCreator, and Amarok just didn't want to keep over-riding the incorrect info.

Perhaps other paths also have incorrect spellings -- in fact I know that some classical albums/artists/track names are incorrect, but Amarok seems fine with them. The ones it had constant trouble with were fine once corrected at the path level, however.

Only thing I can offer to this thread is when I use an external program to edit songs, like MuiscBrainz Picard, I have to go in (IF the songs are already in my collection) and change 1 tag on each song, then all the rest of the tags update in my collection.  I usually just highlight all the songs, go to "comment" and put in ".".  Sometimes it is more convienient to go to track # and renumber the tracks.  But if you are changing the tag in WITHIN Amarok, I don't see why it isn't updating in the collection instantly.  I have a feeling you are having a problem with your collection file itself, or your hard drive or something, I don't know. 

I wonder if it's because the MP3 collection is on an NTFS drive?  It's all on my old Windows XP drive.  I'm using Ubuntu 7.1, which thus far both reads and writes flawlessly to NTFS drives, but still...

Hmm, IIRC one of the few limitations of the Linux NTFS driver is that it can't write to compressed files.  I had this problem with my Thunderbird - I set up the Linux version to draw on my original email accounts and archives from XP, but at first I was unable to view or modify any email because the files were "compressed to save space" on the NTFS drive.  After uncompressing them, they worked fine.  Do MP3 files count as "compressed"?  It does make me wonder if this is somehow causing the problem of the new tags not "taking".