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kalenpw
Asked: 2016-08-10 21:07:31 +0800 CST

Cmus not changing displayed artist name after updating metadata

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OCD: Moosh & Twist recently came out with a new album. When I add it to my cmus library, it shows the artist as "Moosh & Twist". Their other albums display properly as "OCD: Moosh & Twist" I figured this was a simple id3tag issue so I used this answer Any ubuntu tool to edit tag in mp3 files in group and ran

id3tool --set-artist=OCD:\ Moosh\ and\ Twist *.mp3

and now when I run 

id3tool *.mp3

it shows the correct artist name.

I cleared my cmus library and re-added everything, but the new album still shows up as 'Moosh & Twist' despite the Artist id3tag changing.

I am not sure how to get cmus to update the display name properly.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    This ended up being a really simple issue. I updated the id3tag, but did not clear the cmus cache so it did not know the data had been updating.

    To fix this I ran :update-cache within cmus which reloaded any changed id3tags.

    An alternative is to delete the cache and then add everything to your library again.

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  2. remove /home/ur_username/.config/cmus/cache

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