Quite often — or at least, “often enough” — we get people that want to rescan a particular folder in Amarok. This is usually the result of them changing tags and wanting Amarok to pick it up. (Remember, for efficiency reasons Amarok watches the modified times of the collection directories, not the collection files, so adding or deleting (or renaming) files will trigger an incremental scan but modifying a file’s contents won’t.)

Previously, our advice was “touch the folder” or in the worst case “just do a full rescan.” Now there’s slightly better advice we can give. If you right-click on a folder in the collection setup dialog, and if the folder was already in your collection (i.e. you didn’t just check it a moment ago), it will give you the option to rescan that folder.

The text above that field has also been modified slightly to indicate that this is possible. Check it out:

Rescanning a Single Folder

Rescanning a Single Folder

This is in current git master and will be in the 2.2.3 release!