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I couldn't get beet update to read metadata changes - turns out that puddletag
doesn't touch the file modification time by default. It's a perfectly sensible
behaviour but I thought I'd add a note in the `beet update` section in case
anyone else has this problem.
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This will scan all the matched files and read their tags, populating the
database with the new values. By default, files will be renamed according to
their new metadata; disable this with ``-M``.
their new metadata; disable this with ``-M``. Beets will skip files if their
modification times have not changed, so any out-of-band metadata changes must
also update these for ``beet update`` to recognise that the files have been
edited.
To perform a "dry run" of an update, just use the ``-p`` (for "pretend") flag.
This will show you all the proposed changes but won't actually change anything