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cisforcojo

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From: China

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 36

Banshee doesn't permanently change id3 tags

I have a LOT of Chinese music on my computer and since I don't use a native Chinese locale, I can't see the normal Chinese id3 tags (it's just ASCII gibberish). This happens even in Windows if you don't use a Chinese version. Anyway, I have to manually edit each song and add in the Chinese myself which takes a long long time. I did all this before but now that I've installed Arch (from Ubuntu) and have installed Banshee, I have noticed that Banshee did not edit my music collection. All the files are exactly as they were before. I'm not sure how this could happen unless Banshee stores the data in its own database. I tested Banshee on my Arch box and whereas the song was changed in Banshee, the file's id3 tag was not actually changed. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to let Banshee handle this? I'd rather not go through another app just to tag my files.

Thanks!

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: Banshee doesn't permanently change id3 tags

Edit -> Preferences -> Write metadata to files (check?)

cisforcojo

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From: China

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 36

Re: Banshee doesn't permanently change id3 tags

Yeah I know about that one and it's checked. It doesn't work.

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Banshee doesn't permanently change id3 tags

I had encountered the same problem with Rhythmbox as well. So I just started using EasyTag for editing ID3 tags. Check it out.

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cisforcojo

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From: China

Registered: 2009-02-01

Posts: 36

Re: Banshee doesn't permanently change id3 tags

Man I'm feeling slow... I just edited my songs with EasyTag and they're edited now but it's not showing up in Banshee! Does Banshee store its own DB?