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#1 2007-11-12 02:26:28

heleos
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From: Maine, USA
Registered: 2007-04-24
Posts: 678

Amarok renaming songs?

I think Amarok is renaming all my songs. All my songs were in a directory called Music. Inside they were all sorted by artist. Now it seems that Amarok has moved all artists starting with A into a folder called A. It renames all my song titles (which were Artist - Title) into song# - title. It seems to have started very recently, within the last couple days.

Is anyone having a similar problem?

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#2 2007-11-12 02:42:25

bender02
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From: UK
Registered: 2007-02-04
Posts: 1,328

Re: Amarok renaming songs?

For me, the only way I can get amarok to do anything with the directory structure is to right-click on a song/artist, choose "manage files" then "organize files" and then "details" and then I can choose how the directories should be named.

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#3 2007-11-12 02:59:31

heleos
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From: Maine, USA
Registered: 2007-04-24
Posts: 678

Re: Amarok renaming songs?

I just thought it was weird that it randomly started renaming files today. I've never had a problem with it before

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#4 2007-11-12 03:26:08

skottish
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Registered: 2006-06-16
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Re: Amarok renaming songs?

I can't reproduce this on x86_64. And if I could, I think that I'd be forced to puke all over the keyboard. Are you sure that it's Amarok?

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#5 2007-11-12 04:07:18

somairotevoli
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Registered: 2006-05-23
Posts: 335

Re: Amarok renaming songs?

You may have inadvertently told Amarok to organize your files.

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-11-12 04:11:27)

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#6 2007-11-12 06:38:30

heleos
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From: Maine, USA
Registered: 2007-04-24
Posts: 678

Re: Amarok renaming songs?

That may be it, do you know the way to turn that off?

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#7 2007-11-12 07:09:47

somairotevoli
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Registered: 2006-05-23
Posts: 335

Re: Amarok renaming songs?

As bender said above, the only way AFAIK , is to do it manually by right clicking the song/s and choosing to organize.. I don't think there is an option that causes amarok to do it automatically w/o your consent. I don't think it will rename your songs, only the directory structure, but I am not 100% sure about this. By any chance do you have a script running that may cause this, or maybe you used another media player, or maybe even have a dual boot running windows/iTunes? I doubt it, just trying to rule some things out, because if this happened to me I would be right there w/skottish puking.

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#8 2007-11-12 09:05:32

KimTjik
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From: Sweden
Registered: 2007-08-22
Posts: 715

Re: Amarok renaming songs?

The only thing that I know of that could make a mess is if you have songs ripped tagged and untagged. Tagging is anyway far better, since those files will be read correctly independently of what device you use.

What happens if you from the tool-bar choose to update or search the collection?

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