#beets

greetings! can beets do conditional path creation? for example, use $composer/ if and only if there is a single composer, and otherwise use $albumartist/

conditional path formatting*

oh, there's a template function for conditionals right there on the page. hm.

user472259: look at the inline plugin too

thanks DjSlash

one problem is would seem to be that only one composer is listed on each track

for example, you have a tchaikovsky concerto for the first 3 tracks, and then a brahms for the next 3

that happens a lot, yes

there are numerous albums where several tracks has different composers

ya for sure. so why am i trying to puzzle out the logic for how to do the comparisons

I wouldn't use it for path creations (maybe only for the trackfiles itself at the most)

i don't want to split up those albums. those are the ones that should be by artist

but if it's all one composer, then sort that by the composer

I don't think that's doable

I'd just always add an albumartist then..

thanks for the suggestion lazka. you mean always sorting by albumartist first?

user472259, I mean in case there is only one composer, also set it as albumartist, and only use albumartist for path creation

it's not clear how to check for that case yet

I was thinking setting it manually. (/me isn't a beets user, so if this doesn't make sense, please ignore)

does converting from mp3 to flac introduce noise or other problems?

it won't introduce artifacts chrisb

one, it makes the file larger and won't make the quality better

but it's a pointless conversion

wasting time, space

user472259: i am trying to keep a flac only collection, instead of the three flac,ogg, mp3 collections i have now

user472259: i have the space right now, so that is not an issue

well, one of the reasons behind using flac is that it's lossless

if you convert from a lossy format

you don't get that.

if you want your stuff lossless, you'll have to re source it.

download it or rip it again

user472259: yes, in some cases, these are original recordings which were converted from .wav to .mp3 and then the .wav was deleted

in other words, if you covert from mp3 into flac, then you have all the compression and loss of an mp3...with a bigger file size and a different extension. nothing else will have changed.

ya that's tough

converting lossy to lossless can also trick your later self into thinking you have a real lossless copy :)

not that lossless don't have information discarded when they were encoded in the first place

but usually it's unaudible

( I mean the ADC process, not the lossless encoding per se )

sampsyo: thanks to beets, i have added many (~12) releases to musicbrainz

:)

awesome