Re: [Banshee-List] Auto-Changing Unknown Artist and Album?

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Larry<l22h rcn com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I imported a CD that apparently did not contain meta-information about its
> name, songs, artists, etc.
>
> After importing it, it was marked as "Unknown Artist" and "Unknown Album" in
> both Banshee and on my hard drive where all of my music files are stored.
>
> In Banshee I filled in the album and song titles, artists, and genre
> information. I had hoped that that would correspondingly rename the music
> directory and files on my hard drive, but it did not. Is there any way to
> force this to happen?

Yes, you can do this.  Look in Edit->Preferences and you will find
options for writing the metadata to the files, renaming them, etc.  It
is disabled by default, I think because most people on Linux don't
like apps messing with their files.  ;-)

Hope this helps,
Sandy