#beets

Oh, you already know that! Nice; sorry.

i'm using putty most of the time and the fonts putty likes are all terrible.

Mycah: I think you want something like -> 'u\u201c': ''

yeah that didn't work but i just put in the actual chars isntead of the hex and running a move now

thanks for everyones help tho it's a great tool.

oh, that wouldn't be the correct syntax anyways

hello again. Is there a way to list albums which have multiple formats. E.g. flac and mp3. format seems to be associated with a file, so no file can ever be both flac and mp3, even if there are different versions

had to sign up for musicbrainz and add a ton of shit yesterday

and I don't know if beets encode the filenames to unicode first

🙌 for adding tons of shits to MB!

so many squares

nothing but squares

all started because beets prefers ` to ' and changes the hyphens to weird ones.

maybe its not beets tho maybe its just whomever submitted to musicbrainz used those chars

Mycah: Because MusicBrainz prefers proper typography: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Miscellaneous

yeah, makes sense. i'm going to leave that formatting the tags, but on the filenames i want to dumb it down.

Yeah. I think that's pretty common. :)

You know that there's an asciify command, right?

So you don't have to pick out individual characters to replace.

Both as a global option, but also as a function you can use on specific path elements.

yeah

but i didn't want to blow out all my kanji and cyrillic just the punctuation

most terminal fonts support foreign languages, but not "Left Double Quotation Mark"

my replace with the font i normally use: http://i.imgur.com/jkn2L8R.png

i can't believe i didn't think to put the actual char in, and was doing the code instead derp.

sampsyo: that makes sense, thanks

I have a lot of very carefully organized music I want to retag, but I don't want to move them. I just wanted to verify that beet import -C won't move anything and will only tag files and add them to my library?

squigz: you can also set move to no in your config to be safe

but the documentation says that import move defaults to no

I had move: yes in my config, but I removed it

heh...importing 2 files, beets is trying to switch the names around

I'm going to trust musicbrainz here, and hope that the files aren't actually switched around for some reason

if I leave beets running on an import, will it deal with any files I don't have to verify, even while waiting for a selection for other files from me?

I'd like to leave it running while I go out

take a look at the -q option squigz

it will keep importing and if it comes across something it cant import it will skip it

you can use this with -l option to create a log of what has been skipped

:) I was just typing a message to ask about 0l

-l

I wanna say thanks to sampsyo and Freso. instead of just giving me links to docs, they'd explain what i did/had wrong and would tweak and explain the differences. though I'm pretty sure I was getting on Freso's nerves near the end.