{"id":273,"date":"2008-05-31T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2008-05-31T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T10:02:10","slug":"how-can-i-force-rhythmbox-to-rescan-the-id3-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/2008\/05\/31\/how-can-i-force-rhythmbox-to-rescan-the-id3-tags\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I force Rhythmbox to rescan the ID3 tags?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/answers.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/rhythmbox\/+question\/33439\" target=\"_blank\">The original thread<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"report\">\n<blockquote><p><em>Here&#8217;s the situation: I start up Rhythmbox and I see hundreds of recordings of the song Unknown by the artist Unknown, taken from the albumn Unknown and typically of an Unknown genre \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>So &#8230; I fire up EasyTag and I fix them, and now I have hundreds of identified tracks, but Rhythmbox still remembers them from the old tags, and that&#8217;s the information RB uploads to LastFM.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Is there some way to tell Rhythmbox to recheck all the ID3 tags? The only method I&#8217;ve found is to touch all the files and then stop and restart Rhythmbox.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>My asnswer:<br \/>\nEasyTag can touch the files for you (i have italian localization, but it should sound like this):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>preferences<\/li>\n<li>flies settings<\/li>\n<li>remove the &#8220;keep original date&#8221; flag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original thread: Here&#8217;s the situation: I start up Rhythmbox and I see hundreds of recordings of the song Unknown by the artist Unknown, taken from the albumn Unknown and typically of an Unknown genre \ud83d\ude09 So &#8230; I fire up EasyTag and I fix them, and now I have hundreds of identified tracks, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[119,118,117],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","tag-easytag","tag-id3-tag","tag-rhythmbox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7cMxL-4p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprawl.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}