Amarok refuses to update collection

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:54 +0100, Thomas Janssen wrote:
> 2010/2/16 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> > amarok-2.2.2-3.fc12.x86_64, KDE 4.3.5, F12.
> >
> > I added an album of MP3 tracks to my music directory, but Amarok doesn't
> > seem to see it, neither automagically nor via an explicit Tools->Update
> > Collection. The tracks are all appropriately tagged, but not even
> > restarting Amarok nor logging in and out of my session will persuade it
> > to see them.
> 
> I heard of that problem with special characters/spaces mix in the
> file/folder names. IIRC fixed in the latest beta release (or prior).
> On the other hand there was one in #amarok IRC channel still
> mentioning that problem. So it should be fixed for the masses with
> 2.2.2.90
> If you're brave enough, 2.2.2.90 is in kde-redhat repo.

Well, a couple of the tracks have accented characters in their titles,
though most don't. All I can find in BZ is
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172542, which doesn't mention
anything about special chars.

I tried changing the filenames to eliminate accents and spaces. This
made no difference, even restarting Amarok several times.

I reversed the above and tried a complete rescan (from the Settings
menu). That seems to have done the trick.

poc