#beets

Okay so to files that have no tags at all, and that beets finds no match to, beets adds the track title tag from the file name, correct? And if that file name is in the format "Artist - Track.mp3," then the track name will be Artist - Track.

So two questions, is there a way to define this pattern and have beets recognize it and add the tags in correctly, just from that filename format?

And currently what beets is doing is pulling the filename into the track title tag, but adding two spaces on either side of the hyphen, when imported and subsequently moved into my destination directory. I'm not sure where the extra spaces are coming from. Example: Artist - Track.mp3 -> Artist - Track.mp3

If it makes any difference, my singleton path is: Non-Album/$artist/$artist - %asciify{$title}

Maybe beets considere "Foo " the artist and " Bar" the title.

Maybe something to do with the spaces in the singleton path and there being no artist tag.

shawnj probably wants the `fromfilename` plugin

Thank you again, sampsyo

:)

sampsyo: this is what I've added to the docs: "When replacements other than the defaults are used, it is possible that they will increase the length of the path. In the scenario where this leads to a conflict with the maximum filename length, the default replacements will be used to resolve the conflict."

(does it also print a warning?)

It does, yes

LordSputnik: Looks great! Thanks!

What do you need to do to have multiple identically named albums (i.e. multiple releases from same release group)? Will there be problems with the default configuration?

johtso_: No.

Freso, how are the duplicate folder names handled?

johtso_: https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.13/refere...

awesome, thanks!

Cheers.

now to see what itunes makes of it :)

ps. If you plan on using beets, getting acquianted with the docs is a good time investment... ;)

(I'm not saying to learn everything by heart, but getting to know where to find what is really useful. Far most things are pretty well documented.)

sorry, a google search for "beet music multiple versions of same album" didn't get me there, should have thrown in the term "disambiguation"

you're right, the docs are very nicely organised, definitely worth getting used to the structure

I think I read pretty much all of the docs over when I began using beets for real, so a few versions before. That was enough for me to help most people with most questions in here by simply finding and copy/pasting a link to the docs. ;)

s/before/ago/

ouch, yeah, itunes doesn't deal with this issue nearly so gracefully..

johtso_: iTunes not using MB data likely also means that iTunes can't even distinguish *internally* between same-named albums from the same artist.

Yeah, I think it means doing something nasty like putting the disambiguation in the actual album name tag..

POSSIBLY you can put it in a album sort tag of some sort.. but not sure if that actually works