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Hi guys,
I have just modified some of ID3 tags in my music library (using mediamonkey) and when I go into the music library and select update library it doesn't register the changed tags. I have also tried using clean library. Both of these functions seem to only look at changed file locations.
Is there a way that I can get it to recognise the changed tags without having to rescan the whole library??
Thanks!
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I guess you need to change something in the folder so XBMC rescans it.
You could rename the folder containing the modified mp3s and clean the database. That should delete the entry for those mp3s. Now rename the folder back and rescan.
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Is this still true? Do you need to remove and re-add files to get the tags re-scanned? Is there no easier way? This seems like a tough challenge - to have all your tags set properly before scanning or be forced to download all artist data again using the universal scraper.
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Same problem here... Bump.
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Just came across this and I am trying to do the same thing. I'm trying to consolidate the genres to a more manageable number. The changes to the file tags themselves are easy to make in foobar but I was hoping not to have to make the changes in the xbmc library by hand as well. Any way to get xbmc to rescan the tags and update the library accordingly been discovered?
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You just initiate a scan or update library. XBMC will rescan any file whose date has changed.
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clarifying...
All I want to do is to re-scan the mp3 tags not to gather info from any scraper
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So turn off online scraping before you do it?