How to refresh albums after a tag change to files?

[vice86]

Latest version of Subsonic installed tonight. Added all my folder locations. One collection is Radio: Country...each folder is named Country 2005 up to Country 2016. They're out of order due to having Album Artist left blank except for 2014 to 2016 where I had VARIOUS set as Album Artist so they show up in order at the end of the grid.. The rest are in order of the name of the first artist in the folder which throws them all out of whack. I retagged the blank albums with Various.

They still show up with the name of the first artist in the folder. Without deleting the db data, how do I refresh it so it sees the change and they all show Various as the Album Artist?

[toolman]

Did you retag the albums from within Subsonic or did you use an exernal program like MP3tag?
I found that retagging from within Subsonic is the easiest way to change song-information.
However you could try to first do a database clean up and than rescan your folders.

[vice86]

yes, i use MP3Tag to set/change tags. Didn't even thing about changing within Subsonic. Would that change the original file's tags also?

Next thing I notice wrong I'll test MP3Trim editing and then database clean up and rescan and see how that goes.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[acroyear]

its been mentioned elsewhere, but sometimes if a file changes but the folder that file is in does not, the file scanner doesn't dig in to look at the files for differences. sometimes you need to do things like add some text file to the folder, or rename it (or rename a parent folder if you have lots of these) so the scanner looks inside them, then rename them back.

if on a linux/mac system and you know some command line stuff, you can try to "touch" folders to get them to rescan.