greetings! can beets do conditional path creation? for example, use $composer/ if and only if there is a single composer, and otherwise use $albumartist/
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conditional path formatting*
oh, there's a template function for conditionals right there on the page. hm.
DjSlash
user472259: look at the inline plugin too
user472259
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
DjSlash
that happens a lot, yes
there are numerous albums where several tracks has different composers
user472259
ya for sure. so why am i trying to puzzle out the logic for how to do the comparisons
DjSlash
I wouldn't use it for path creations (maybe only for the trackfiles itself at the most)
user472259
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
DjSlash
I don't think that's doable
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lazka
I'd just always add an albumartist then..
user472259
thanks for the suggestion lazka. you mean always sorting by albumartist first?
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lazka
user472259, I mean in case there is only one composer, also set it as albumartist, and only use albumartist for path creation
user472259
it's not clear how to check for that case yet
lazka
I was thinking setting it manually. (/me isn't a beets user, so if this doesn't make sense, please ignore)
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chrisb
does converting from mp3 to flac introduce noise or other problems?
user472259
it won't introduce artifacts chrisb
BrainDamage
one, it makes the file larger and won't make the quality better
user472259
but it's a pointless conversion
wasting time, space
chrisb
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
user472259
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
chrisb
user472259: yes, in some cases, these are original recordings which were converted from .wav to .mp3 and then the .wav was deleted
user472259
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
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sampsyo
converting lossy to lossless can also trick your later self into thinking you have a real lossless copy :)
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BrainDamage
not that lossless don't have information discarded when they were encoded in the first place
but usually it's unaudible
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( I mean the ADC process, not the lossless encoding per se )
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chrisb
sampsyo: thanks to beets, i have added many (~12) releases to musicbrainz