Amarok's tag editor is confusing the hell out of me

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Nikos,

JFYI, Amarok has it's own mailing list: amarok at kde.org, subscribing.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:27, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> I've stumbled across a confusing (as well as annoying) thing in Amarok.
>  Not sure if it's a "feature"...
>
> When I right click on a track in the collection browser and select "Edit
> track details", it shows me the MP3 tags of that track.  When I right
> click on *the same* track in the file browser instead (after navigating
> to the directory that contains it), it displays a different value for
> "Artist."  In other words, Amarok is outright lying to me:
>
>   http://i34.tinypic.com/2igf8fb.png

There are caching problems with the Collection Browser, do a rescan,
then close and restart should solve that issue

> Another weird behavior that seems related is that Amarok sometimes makes
> random decisions (at least they appear to be random) as to what to put
> in the "Various Artists" category and what not.

Could you be a tad more specific? "Sometimes" and "random" is not
really something we can work with


Regards, Myriam.

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