recognizing changes in files

[Andrew Stromme]

On Thursday 01 January 2009 06:13:41 Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Martin (KDE) <kde at fahrendorf.de> wrote:
> > due to the problem with changing tags in amarok (speed down) I use
> > kid3 for now. The Problem: the changes are not recognized by amarok.
> > The tags are written to the files (verified with id3info). The
> > timestamps of the files have changed. but amarok shows, neither from
> > the collection tab nor from the file tab the correct tags. I have to
> > run a collection rescan to get updated most of the tags. And I have to
> > restart amarok to show all tags the way they are.
> >
> > I use Amarok 2.0 on KDE 4.1.3, fedora 10, collection is on a NFS
> > volume
>
> Amarok detects collection changes by detecting changed directory
> "mtime" values. To get a certain directory rescanned (if it doesn't
> happen automatically), just "touch" (Unix command) the parent
> directory, and then click "Update Collection".
>
> PS: While most file systems support mtime, a minority of them doesn't.
> Among those is FAT32, and possibly also NFS, which would explain your
> problems.

Is there a reason why Amarok isn't using KDirWatch from the kio library? it 
sounds like what you need and uses inotify when it is available.

Andrew Stromme