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You know the option in Banshee to change the whole folder structure of your music collection according to the meta date? I enabled that. Problem was that it only seemed to change it from the moment you opened the "Change track info" dialog and hit the save button. I wasn't planning to do that for my whole collection, so I looked for an easier solution. I selected the whole collection (CTRL+A), and went to "Change track info". There my eyes fell on a button labeled something like "Synchronize all" (I guess the translation was just unclear), and it seemed to me that that would do what I was searching for... It didn't. In stead, it applied the same artist ID3 tag to my whole music collection, and because of the option for changing the folder structure enabled, it changed the filename for all of those songs too. So I've got a bit of a problem here...
The only things still intact is the title and album of the song (title's also in the filename itself). But the artist has been set to the same for every song. So, my question: Is there a way to rollback the changes? Or is my music collection permanently ruined? I haven't got my hopes up very high, but I figured it's better to ask than to just deleting everything.

jrg
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RobinJ
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The answer to this was provided in the comments.

Probably the best approach is :

1) File a bug report.

2) Restore what you can using "MusicBrainz Picard"

3) Manually restore with last.fm

If you have a Last.fm account (and a little bit of free time), you may be able to use the Last.fm Fingerprint extension for Banshee to clean up the songs that Picard didn't fix.

Panther
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