#beets

Quick Question

Can you lookup a track on echonest using a MB iD?

Bombardment: Yes, but they don't have great coverage

The EN plugin tries but falls back on metadata when the MBID isn't in the EN database

Thats what I thought

hi, freaking awesome software btw!!

is there a way to rebuild library based on mp3 folder?

update, found :)

How does beets got about determining number of albums - one per former or some other criteria. I get very different answers from Logitechmediaserver and beets looking at the same folder tree:

Tracks: 264545, Artists: 16712, Albums: 16676, whereas LMS reports about 1000 more

audiomuze: I don't know th answer, but you're in the right place, someone will answer soon

sampsyo: could we get some bot triggers? if you're going to be writing such good software that hackers appreciate on HN I'm going to be busy typing that

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lol

gotta get going to work :-

hey guys

I don't think that should be a soundtrack, just an album by prince. Do you agree?

For some reason, no matter what options I use (even timid) beets refuses to interactively allow me to help tag stuff. ie, here is some output of the verbose process: http://pastebin.com/wAzNNh7L

ekool: hi

ekool: it won't allow you tag anything?

MaynardWaters: it's not our decision, go to #musicbrainz and make your argument there? and it is the soundtrack to a film innit?

I figured out the issue. If you have verbose enabled, the threaded process scrolls past so your interactive choices scroll off the screen.

yeah.

Took me a damn long time to figure it out since I'm running it in a not so tall tmux window ;)

jesus, i have so much music that is all jacked up

this is going to take years ;)

is there a way to tell beets to ignore import directories that do not contain more then X files?

ie, i dont want to process singles or directories with say 2 files... just more then that.

ekool: I don't think so, but that seems pretty doable as a feature..

I could probably move the files with find and a quick xargs script... let me work on that

does tracktotal contain the time or the track count?

if it's the track count, you could make a query in ihate plugin

Nah, I'm doing an initial import.

... and?

And I'm trying to keep myself from having to do interaction on thousands of BS files and directories as my collection is huge.

ihate plugin runs the query in stuff about to be imported

not already imported

ofc it'll still have to analyze the files to decide to discard them

but there are no tags on these files, so im not sure how ihate will help

how about albumartist being void?

the problem is, files in dirs where there should be a whole album, there's a single mp3, so it chokes up beets beacuse of missing tracks and compound that with bad dir structure

and me not wanting to waste time on onesy/twoesy stuff... i still want to import stuff i have full albums for, the other crap ill mess with later

yeah, it's often easier to fix whole albums than single items

heh, here's an example... these directories contain 2 or less files in them :( find . -type d -exec sh -c 'set -- "$0"/*.m*; [ $# -le 2 ]' {} \; -print | wc -l