Edit id3 tags

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Leo Franchi wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Casey Link <unnamedrambler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> > If i edit the tags with eg kid3 then the tags are not
>> > displayed if i re open the "Edit track details" dialog
>> > in Amarok.
>>
>> I've noticed this behavior before too.. I just thought I was crazy and
>> hadn't actually edited the tracks.
> 
> 
> Jeff knows more, but essentially there is some deep brokenness in SqlMeta
> (caching for the sqlcollection). The problems are subtle and can manifest
> themselves in weird ways---they have to do with cache inconsistencies when
> updating tag data. We were actually talking yesterday morning about
> tossing SqlMeta completely, as the times when the most DB lookups are
> being done (scanning, for example) Jeff has made impressively fast now,
> 
> leo
> 

I think I stumbled upon something related before. Amarok happily pretended 
to change tags of write protected files when indeed it did nothing. So maybe 
a message about not being able to change the file would be helpful ;)

Cheers
Frederik