#beets

sampsyo, i got too excited, i meant what did you personally want to work on next. although of course, that other stuff is very valuable to write down

jrobeson: Oh! I'm most excited about AURA, myself.

hmm, what to do ..

self.assert_equal_path(self.lib.items().get().path, self.import_media[0].path) string/byte comparison on windows

is there a way to fill music files with metadata automatically from the web??

based on their hash or somthing?

yes, that's whathttps://acoustid.org/ is designed to do

Jessew thats great!! any idea how to achieve that from the commandline

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hm

input: a folder of music, output: lyrcis and albumart and other metadata such as artist and album name, song name

zotherstupidguy: see https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.19/plugins...

and more of the docs linked from there

JesseW appreciate it, thankx

sure. if you have more questions after reading those docs, please do ask

i just like to say it is freakin amazing!!! i will keep reading the docs! i am amazed with how much beauty of intellect is being shared online for free!

It is quite amazing. Good to be reminded of it. :-)

sup JesseW ?

jrobeson: greetink

Btw, for people who want better ways to get music recommendations, have a look at https://blog.musicbrainz.org/2016/07/12/dataset... - it's not going to be the magic bullet, but it's a step towards making good, open and open source music recommendation engines. :)

Freso, did you try it out yet?

Not in this current iteration. I don't really have the patience to curate a good dataset. :(

also, did you try out beets with py3 yet? :)

No.

I'm going to fork/clone the PKGBUILD and edit it for Py3 and then try that out.

But I already use beets less than weekly, so...

isn't it easier to just check it out from git ?

the only thing you should have to do is install the six package, everything else should be fine, assuming you were using the most recent beets version

otherwise there was a mutagen upgraded requirement that you may or may not have

hi there

zotherstupidguy: Hello :)

(You will generally get help quicker if you just ask whatever question you have, rather than wait for someone to come around. If I could have answered, I would have spend the time writing this to answer you - instead I'm going to go away again and not see if you reply until later. This adds a lot of delays to the communication.)

well,

Q1: does beets allow streaming radio channels, like icecast?

Q2: today, i coded a api client for acoustid to get a musicbrainz id for unkown.mp3, then i coded another api client for musicbrainz to get information about that id; is there a way to just give a folder of unkown mp3 to beets and it will communicate with both services and automatically fill the mp3 with metadata information? i seeking to end up with a script that i wouldn't fire and forget

anybody can help?

I'm not sure what you mean with Q1. beets is not an audio player, so it cannot play streams, nor is it a streaming software to generate streams.

For Q2, beets already has a plugin for using AcoustIDs for resolving unknown audio files to MusicBrainz IDs: http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/c... - maybe look into using that?

Freso thanks, i will :))

beets can play audio with a the play plugin Freso

and the web interface, althoguh that is pretty basic

jrobeson: Is it actually beets doing the playing?

I thought it just sent the file(s) off to an external program.

it can be, with the gstreamer plugins

it depends on which option you choose, it can call an external, or play with gstreamer

at least that's hwo the code read to me

unless i just woke up and am thinking of the wrong plugin

but it can definitely play audio on the web

sampsyo, we already have to accept strings and bytestrings in command_output due to usage of syspath(), so can we now remove unnecessary b'' prefixes from the commands, since we have to conditionally convert anyways?

we're not gonna have trouble with encoding/decoding any of the arguname names in any encoding

argument names*