Edit id3 tags

[Chris Joelly]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009, Frederik Gladhorn wrote:
> 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 ;)
> 

yes. but in my case the files are writable.

Chris