Open Samba Shares in Nautilus

Open Nautilus

Press Ctrl+L (or use menu: Go > Location)

Type: smb://192.168.123.123 (using IP of target share)

And you're in...

Rhythmbox - Changing the Genre Reverts after Program Restart

I have used Rhythmbox to edit the tags of many songs, but recently I came across one album that would not keep changes I made to the Genre field. Initially, the changes would be made, but after restarting Rhythmbox, the Genre had reverted back to the original.

I tried changing the song title, and and that worked, even after re-starting Rhythmbox.

I opened these mp3s in a few different audio players, and they all showed the new Genre. Sigh. However, Rhythmbox still showed the old Genre. This seemed to point to a tag version problem.

I ended up using Audio Tag Tool and found that all these songs had a v1 tag but no v2 tag. This tool did not show the v3 tag (but I knew it existed). The fix was to copy the v1 tag to the v2 tag (Ctrl+2) and then delete the v1 tag for each file (deleting the v1 tag might not have been necessary, I don't know).

Then I opened the files in Rhythmbox, edited the Genre, quit out, re-launched Rhythmbox, and the Genre was changed!

Reset Gnome Panel to Default

Sometimes I screw something up with the main panel bar at the top and can't figure out how to get it back, so it's easier to just reset the panels and start over.

In Terminal, do:
gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel
Then do:
pkill gnome-panel