#beets

hi alll

I've imported some music and skipped some albums, how do I get it to rescan all those that have been skipped?

mmm is there a way to have beets define 2 types of single mode: one singles from an aritst you have others full albums in your library and a 1-2 hit wonder single mode

that is add the normal single mode under the artist folder but the 1 hit wonder under a seperate VA folder?

am i making sense :)?

"no"

zeltak: One idea: you could write an inline field that checks whether the artist directory already exists.

sampsyo: sounds great

but no clue how to do that :)

remember i cant code at all :)

well yes, you would indeed need to know python :)

hehe i am scheduled to learn python a bit later this year :)

how do you guys deal with singles from artists you have and one hit wonders?

they all just go in the singletons directory for me

I like having albums and singles separate even when I have both for a given artist

i see ok ill maybe adjust my method and adopt this approach to be more beets compatible :)

it would certainly be easier, if you can compromise on your dreams :)

hehe

i guess its not that bad as the player (like mpd) will still see it as the same aritsts

sampsyo: can i bother you with a regex/zero plugin question?

how does one delete everything on the comments field apart from the letter F (both cases ie f/F)

oh when its a single letter ofc. there is logic behind this :)

i had my mpd tracks commented 'F' for favourite

as a kinda crude rating system

oh, cool

The regex you want is something like ^[Ff]$

Right?

i guess ;-) again no coding/regex skills lol

so something like this line: comments: [EAC, LAME, from.+collection, 'ripped by']

err i mean

comments : [ ^[Ff]$ ]

should delete all but F?

also (sorry for multiple questions) can beets launch an external command when it finishes importing on imported files (for example an external script that batch replaygains)

Yes, along those lines

You may need to quote the regex

E.g., [ '^[Ff]$' ]

And no, there's no command hook or anything, but a plugin like that would be easy to cook up

kk thx sampsyo and sorry for all the questions :)

No problem

sampsyo: hmm the regex i used: https://paste.xinu.at/jQciTA/

dosent seem to work, it didnt clean the comment tag at all

oh right, that regex will clean *only* those comments that are F or f :)

:)

I guess the inverse would be something like ^[^Ff]

kk trying now :)

hmmm still no go: https://paste.xinu.at/ZnIi3k/

the diff betweeen the 1st regex and 2nd one is the removal of the $ at the end right?

zeltak: And the additional ^ inside the []s

sampsyo: perfect! thx alot again, have a great weekend

thanks! you too