problem tagging files with amarok

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 15:27, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Myriam Schweingruber
> <myriam at kubuntu.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:32, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978 at infinito.it> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I'm running kubuntu updated but I'm experiencing an annoying problem with
>>> amarok: some files are not tagged as I'd like. Each time I try to edit tags the
>>> program does not present any error to me but the files keep the same old tags.
>>> This happens only with a few files, but I'm not finding any motivations, since
>>> permissions are ok. I've tried to execute the application from the console, to
>>> see if there was an error showing up, but nothing. Is there a way to get
>>> information about why the tagging is failing?
>>
>> Could you maybe start with telling us which exact Amarok version and
>> KDE version you are using? There have been huge changes sin 2.2.0
>> which is the default version on Kubuntu 9.10, and Amarok 2.3 has just
>> been released.
>>
>> If your version is older, you really should upgrade, as described
>> here: http://kubuntu.org/news/amarok-2.3.0
>>
>> If you upgrade from an even older version than 2.2.0, make sure you do
>> a full collection rescan, followed by a restart, since there were
>> MySQL version changes in between that can cause a wrong display in the
>> CollectionBrowser.
>>
>> If you need to tag more than the occasional file, you should consider
>> a mass tagging software like kid3, easytag or picard, Amarok is not
>> meant to be used as a mass-tagging software.
>>
>>
>> Regards, Myriam.
>
> Is that a safe upgrade? I see that it also upgrades your KDE!

Absolutely, since none of these upgrade is a beta. On the contrary, it
brings in a newer KDE which works definitely better than the previous
one.

Of course, he is not forced to upgrade, my main question was to start
by telling us which exact version he is using :) Then we can evaluate


Regards, Myriam.
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