Just started using beets; possibly stupid question:
what if I want to query on a single word?
i.e. beet ls boo
will return stuff that has both "boo boo boo" and "boopity boopity" in it
what if I just want the former?
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(I suppose I could do beet ls ' boo '; but meh.)
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slush
JayPee: "boo boo" works too
but there isn't a easy way to query for a single word, unless you use regex's
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sampsyo
JayPee: A regex that matches only the full field would look something like ^this$
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daks
hello
sampsyo: irc is simpler to debug problems than twitter :)
so i got an album with artist as ARTIST
i have done 'beet modify artist:ARTIST artist=ARTIST'
and the same with albumartist=
now i want files to move from the directory ARTIST/album to artist/album
but i don't understand how to do it
sampsyo
daks: hey there
indeed, twitter is a poor IRC :)
daks
for sure :)
sampsyo
since albumartist is an album-level field, use:
beet modify -a albumartist=foo
daks
oh
i don't understand why but i'll try
sampsyo
it's a bit confusing; it would be great to find a way not to expose that distinction to users
BrainDamage
sampsyo: what do you think about checking if an album's items all contain the same field and then add that property to the album too?
sampsyo
yes, that might be a good idea
we do a similar thing for the `update` command
daks
oh ok it's because the db has information about tracks AND album?
sampsyo
yes
daks
which has no sense for files
BrainDamage suggestion seems good
sampsyo
BrainDamage: it would be great if we could move that logic (propagating item-level field changes to albums) into a function and use it in both `update` and `modify` (and the `mbsync` plugin, which also does the same thing)
daks
with -a beet move does the job, thanks
adding this to my beets-cookbook document
it's a great software but sometimes user interaction is hard
when using beet modify
is beet write necesary after?
sampsyo
depends on your configuration (if you have import.write set, then modify does it automatically)
daks
i didn't change this config, is it the default one?
sampsyo
yes
daks
default queries are case insensitive it seems?
yes they are, but regex aren't (but much much slower)
thanks for your help, going back to library organization
sampsyo
:)
pprkut
sampsyo: would you have an idea why importing a cd with about 30 tracks would take one hour?
sampsyo
Nope. Do you have echonest enabled?
pprkut
I have no system or network load, I'm really stumped by this :(
I do have echonest enabled
sampsyo
Uploading to them takes literally forever
pprkut
yeah, but it hasn't started uploading yet
sampsyo
(And waiting for the analysis results to come back)
Oh?
Any clues in the verbose log?
pprkut
I'd have to rerun it for that, right?
is running import with -v enough or should I add something else?
hmm, getting connection timeouts from the lyrics plugin. That could be it
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stillaftermath
Hey all, I've sorted all my music using beets but accidentally reversed two tags (I put $artist - $track when I meant the other way around) - The FAQ and help command says that I should be able to fix this easily by running a beet move $/Music (my destination folder), but I fixed it in the config, did that, and it just chugs for a minute or two, exits out, and doesn't rename anything
Is there something I need to add to it to tell it to process already imported media or something?
oloP
stillaftermath : try with the origin folder
or no folder at all
just "beet move"
stillaftermath
Oh, beet move might be the trick, it's reporting back that it's moving 2000-and-change items
and nope, negative.
By origin folder you mean the -d switch, as in beet move -d ~/Music?
oloP
yes
stillaftermath
trying that now
oloP
but beet move should do the trick, I use it all the time
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stillaftermath
Aha! yeah, worked with the -d switch
One more q - The import process is very slow (pausing for seconds and sometimes minutes before returning options or deciding on the course of action) - I'm betting this is due to one or more plugins. My current line is "plugins: discogs fetchart embedart lastgenre duplicates"; any of those known right off the bat to be bad for that kind of thing?
I know musicbrainz itself can sometimes be all bitchy with request throttling and such.
I'm thinking it's discogs because it gets much worse on albums that return a ton of potential matches
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oloP
I don't know, try without it and you'll see
stillaftermath
Yeah will do, just asking in case one of them was a known problem child
Thanks for the help mate
oloP
You can try on the same album by reimporting it to see if there is a big difference. Just change the path to the one that is already in your library
Beets won't really reimport it but will update it intead.