#beets

I'm having a problem with importing multi-disc albums where each disk is a separate directory. beets is realizing these are the same album, but us using incorrect info for the album, which includes "albumname (disc 1)" even for the disc 2 and subsequent items

Is there a way to either make beets use the album tag as it is (which is already set correctly on these tracks) or to remove the disc info from the album and I can tack it on with formatting info

I guess I don't understand why beets is ignoring the properly set album title from the other disks tracks and using the one for the first disc

i never figured out how that bit worked

i imported a multidisc album by following some instructions in the beets docs. not sure where they are

I guess I can make a plugin function that removes the "disc nn" from the album, and then tack it back on using the correct disc number, but that seems pretty hacky

eharris: the ideal way to fix this would be to match to the proper musicbrainz release

is configuring a custom musicbrainz server broken?

the syntax in the default config.yaml doesn't work.

never heard that it was, but that doesn't mean that it isn't

if you don't see any bug reports, then file a bug

trying to figure out if it's user error... doesn't headphones offer its own MB mirror? I'd think someone would have hit that, if it's a real problem.

also, is it possible to use beets to tag/rename without recording to the db?

for what purpose exactly?

i'm not really sure though.

I'm not sure why it's not matching.

I've hit an error (apparently) in the utf8 handling. Getting a traceback when trying to import

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 69: invalid continuation byte

kills the import, and doesn't say what file is causing the problem.

eharris, what's your OS? what's your locale?

and what does the traceback say.

jrobeson: Debian Jessie. http://pastebin.com/wndVAeNk

jrobeson: my locale is set to "C"

I've been able to narrow it down to a particular directory

eharris: I'm guessing a "C" locale will cause trouble. Either use "C.utf-8" or "en_US.utf-8".

and that is your problem

eharris, C will not work with utf-8 at all

eharris, however, in that case, that's a bug that is fixed in beets master

so for now, use a real locale :)

in other cases, you'll just see utf-8 chars ignored

jrobeson: Was this something you just fixed now, or something that had already been identified?

nah, it's been fixed for a few weeks now

jrobeson: I changed my locale to en_US.UTF-8, but am still getting an error

what does locale -a say?

it's not in any release yet sadly, the maintainer was injured so has not been able to package a release up yet

C C.UTF-8 en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.utf8 POSIX

So you need to use "en_US.utf8"

I changed to that, still getting the error

locales shows it is in effect.

sampsyo, i know you can't type as well, but do you have time to at least look over the issues in https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/2158 and comment on them?

that is, I'll try to actually fix the code, if you can't

most specifically, the hardcoded utf-8 stuff

the output stuff is a different story.

jrobeson: any other suggestions on workarounds for this utf bug?