2007-04-13: John Connor dixit:
> [...] One thing I would like to be able to do is to manipulate
> the tracks on the device (edit tags, mostly) but I don't have
> any options to do that. I'm wondering if this is a limitation
> of Amarok or the libkarma drivers?? Could I do more with the
> tracks on my Karma if I was using Banshee instead??
>
> I know I can use something like EasyTag to change the tag and
> then delete and restore them to the Karma. But I was looking
> for something to eliminate a couple of steps.
You can use 'lkarmafs -T ... ' to mount the RK filesystem and
then directly edit the RK tune tags with EasyTag or any other tag
editing program.
Note, however, that RK (and lkarmafs and (RK-)Amarok and rmml and
...) completely ignore the tags included in the tune files.
The "tags" you see in the RK are those posted in the metadata
files ('smalldb' and ??1 RK internal files). These metadata are
generated by the upload programs by reading the real tune tags.
In addition, using lkarmafs, you can optionally generate metadata
"tags" different from those in the real tags.
See http://linux-karma.sourceforge.net/lkarmafs.html for details.
To summarise: if you want to edit *both* the real tags *and* the
metadata tags, directly on the RK files, you can do that with
lkarmafs, but you may want to write some script to simplify
matters. Typically, after you have changed the real tag (e.g.
using EasyTag or id3v2) the script should change the metadata
accordingly; e.g. by renaming the lkarmafs file path with the
new names you have entered in the real tag.
Of course, if you only want to 'see' your tunes with the new
names on (RK-)Amarok or (RK-)Banshee (or lkarmafs or rmml or ...)
and you don't mind having the real file tags edited, you can do
that straitforwardly using only lkarmafs (no need of EasyTag).
Hope it helps.
Best,
EV.
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