Another beginner question

[rksingla]

My Controller doesn't clear out old genre tags. So if I had a CD once tagged mistakenly as "County" instead of "Country" and now I fix it, there is still a County tag. How do I get it to fully clean out and refresh genre tags?

[GlenL]

You may have to do a full rescan of your music library, instead of a scan for changed music.

[raven22]

Also some tracks have 2 or even 3 tags, you think you changed it, but you changed only 1 of them. With mp3tag you can delete tags, all of them or only the ape, or id3 version 1 or 2.

[rksingla]

I tried a full rescan and that didn't do it. I am not sure what multiple tags would refer to. In ITunes the songs show the right genre... ANy other ideas or explanations would be much appreciated.

[raven22]

just download mp3tag (it's free) and have a look at the tags. then you can see if and which tags are with your songs. For instance a cd has been ripped to .ape and lateron converted to .mp3 has 2 tags. Maybe you changed only one but the other tag still has the original data.

[androidtopp]

Is this something we should submit a bug/feature request for? Maybe it would cause change scans (as opposed to full scans) longer, but...

I ran into this issue over the weekend - somehow a couple of freshly ripped albums got separated into two different albums. The first track was it's own album, and the rest were a second. I decided it was becuase metadata was somehow different on the first track, and indeed, they had different album names. So I fixed the meta, and after a change scan (not a full scan), the meta did update - now I had two identically titled albums. I ended up having to full scan in order to clear that out.

I guess it just seems more intiutive to me that a change in the file of any kind would trigger things to get refreshed fully in SC. Not a huge deal, since I've since fixed the tagging issue that caused all this, but maybe just for general usability?

[Nonreality]

Is this something we should submit a bug/feature request for? Maybe it would cause change scans (as opposed to full scans) longer, but...

I ran into this issue over the weekend - somehow a couple of freshly ripped albums got separated into two different albums. The first track was it's own album, and the rest were a second. I decided it was becuase metadata was somehow different on the first track, and indeed, they had different album names. So I fixed the meta, and after a change scan (not a full scan), the meta did update - now I had two identically titled albums. I ended up having to full scan in order to clear that out.

I guess it just seems more intiutive to me that a change in the file of any kind would trigger things to get refreshed fully in SC. Not a huge deal, since I've since fixed the tagging issue that caused all this, but maybe just for general usability?

I think that normally a scan for new and changed would catch that. My understanding is that anything that changes the date tag would cause it to be picked up. I might be wrong on this.