Title changes not showing

[ScttLee]

A lot of my songs had the artist name in the front.  I renamed, external app, by taking out their name and just having the actual song title.  Poweramp still shows the original title with not the new name.  How can I rescan the songs and get the new tiles to show?

Thanks

[andrewilley]

Try a Full Rescan (bottom of Settings > Library)

Andre

[ScttLee]

I think I figured it out.  I think the names are embedded and I just changed the file names.  I changed the embedded names on a few and rescanned and they showed correctly whereas the others did not.

Thanks

[andrewilley]

Ah, if you only changed the filenames then the tag-based info won't alter. The filenames can be whatever you want them to be, often useful for esoteric sorting (maybe adding a year or disc/track numbering to the start of a name for example), but the title/artist/album/artwork/etc shown in PA's lists will be taken from the embedded tag metadata hidden inside the files.

Andre

[ScttLee]

Upon further tried, I found it is a hit or miss if they show correctly either from the file change or the embedded.  I am going back through my files with a different app & changing anything that does not appear correctly.

Thank you Andre for your quick responses.

[andrewilley]

I use TagScanner on my PC, but there are other good batch tag editors around too - MP3Tag is another one often mentioned.

Andre