#beets

does beets have a out-of-the-box feature or plugin that can transliterate data in other scripts (Japanese, for example) into Roman letters?

kerobaros yes, although it relies on the transliterated version being in musicbrainz.

i assume there is a field for the transliteration that i'm missing in the docs?

sec.

ctrl-f "languages"

is there a way to append things like (Vinyl Rip) or (MFSL) or (Remastered) to the end of album titles

so i don't have dupes of albums i know are different

and that i think beets knows are different

you could use the disambiguation comment

if there is one in musicbrainz

I concur; check that disambig field

Or medium, for stuff like vinyl