<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 12 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Rowan Berkeley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies of<br>these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to<br>recognise new additions to the mp3 archive except by recompiling its<br>Music Library completely via 'Import Media', thereby losing any<br>file-name changes I have made each time I add new files. So I need to<br>edit the tags at source. I would prefer something self-installing, which<br>is why I ask whether there is anything in the repositories.<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>There's an option in the Banshee preferences menu (sorry, don't remember exactly where) to turn on writing of tags out to files, so that answers one of your questions. As for the other, I see a banshee-inotify-watch plugin at [0], and an upstream bug with patch at [1] which is still a work in progress. At least the former should go part of the way to helping you out, and the latter might please you to know that the developers are working on just this feature.</div><div><br></div><div>Iain</div><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="http://code.google.com/p/banshee-inotify-watch/">http://code.google.com/p/banshee-inotify-watch/</a></div><div>[1] <a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385965">http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385965</a></div></body></html>