Refresh metadata when rescanning the library

Bug #1204164 reported by RAWRR
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Mixxx
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Somewhere in the GUI there should be a higher profile option for refreshment of metadatas.

This is especially important since Mixxx organizes the tracks in the Library GUI according to ID3 data, but has no ID3 editor built in; there are too many steps to reordering the file presentation in the Library GUI after ID3 edits outside of Mixxx happen.

The right click option in Library is great and works, but it would be nice if there was a toggle option in preferences -> Library to include metadata refresh as part of library rescan, or if metadata refresh was included in library rescan by default.

Or, it would be good if there was an option for metadata refresh/rescan in the library dropdown menu* (unless of course it becomes part of rescan by default in which case it would be unnecessary).

So basically, one of these:

1. "always reload metadata from files when refreshing library" becoming default

2. "reload metadata from files when refreshing library" added as an option in the library preferences menu

3. an entirely separate library dropdown menu entry specifically for refreshing all metadatas*

*If Bug #1085691 is addressed, then a Library dropdown entry could be replaced by a button in the analyze pane or similar.

RAWRR (rawrr)
description: updated
description: updated
summary: - features and improvement for refreshing metadata via GUI
+ features and streamlining for refreshing metadata via GUI
RAWRR (rawrr)
description: updated
description: updated
RAWRR (rawrr)
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)
Changed in mixxx:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Daniel Schürmann (daschuer) wrote : Re: features and streamlining for refreshing metadata via GUI

 Related: #1298212 Scan for changed metadata id3 tags

RAWRR (rawrr)
tags: added: polish
removed: metadatas
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Uwe Klotz (uklotzde-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

The following PR adds an option to reload and refresh the track metadata from the file when it is loaded in Mixxx:

https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/728

But please be careful: Enabling this option silently updates the track metadata in Mixxx with the information found in the files tags as soon as you select a file!

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Uwe Klotz (uklotzde-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
summary: - features and streamlining for refreshing metadata via GUI
+ Refresh metadata when rescanning the library
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Uwe Klotz (uklotzde-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Adding a remark to the manual would clarify what rescan is supposed to do:
https://www.mixxx.org/manual/latest/en/chapters/library.html

Rescan does only detect new or missing files, but does not refresh the library if the contents of existing files have been modified by some external application.

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Uwe Klotz (uklotzde-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Swiftb0y (swiftb0y) wrote :

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/7113

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