Re: [Banshee-List] Banshee not updating MP3 tags

[Bertrand Lorentz <bertrand lorentz gmail com>]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:43 PM, brucem9999 <brucem mail org> wrote:
> I right click on a song, click on "edit tag info", change some things, and
> click "save". The info I have changed appears to have "taken".
>
> I close Banshee and immediately reopen it. The changes I have made still
> seem to be there.
>
> I do an "edit > select all > remove from library", then immediately do a
> "tools > rescan library" and the changes have disappeared, i.e. the original
> information is back.
>
> I have tried it with multiple files, one file, different fields (genre,
> artist and title)
> I have NOT gone into to change the library location ( I only have the music
> in one directory on my computer, anyway) between library reloads.
> I am using Banshee 2.0.0 under Umbuntu 11.04
>
> Since I can't find any reference to this problem listed, I assume it's an
> operator head-space problem. Any ideas????

Do you have the "Write metadata to files" option enabled ? It's in
Edit > Preferences.
It's not enabled by default, as we don't want to modify your files
without you being aware of it.

-- 
Bertrand Lorentz