#beets

0What can I do if I have imported a music in the library and beet created it under $MY_LIB_DIR/Non-Album.mp3.

I can't find the file in the library. WHen I do beet ls non-album, I don't get anything.

beet seems also to have created some files named in this manner: http://paste.debian.net/925999/. They were all music with no real information in tags. How can I repair this? Beets doesn't seem good with manual modificiation of files 1 by 1.

sim590: you can use modify -> https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/referenc...

sim590: where QUERY can be the path of the file(s)

I just broke my db (which kind of automatically recovered, though after a few tries) by SIGINT-ing an import

Could this be solved by capturing sigints in the tool

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Does anyone know of an equivalent to beets for movies?

Ooze: None yet, but "we" want to have beets handle videos too.

There's an open issue on GitHub for this.

at least for the videos that are in musicbrainz this would be nice :)

Freso, handle videos?

Why not just use FileBot for that?

Ooze: couchpotato?

SuperSeriousCat: I just looked up FileBot: it's a GUI app.

works in cli too

Does it have an internal db so it can be queried without having to actually write data to files? I see lots of talk about renaming files.

(Also... Sourceforge... :|)

Ooze, pprkut, SuperSeriousCat, etc.: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/1935

videos are not like music though, there isn't enough metadata in a file (tracklist, duration...) to determine what it is if the files are not named at least a tiny bit correctly before searching

Which is where beets' db comes in handy.

filebot doesn't have an internal db

it just queries online dbs

Yep.

with things like plex and couchpotato, I'm not sure what the use case would be

`beet ls type:video actor:Caprio`

`beet ls author:Tolkien` (returning your beets managed Silmarillion eBook, Roverandom audiobook, and LotR trilogy videos)

well plex has an api

I know there are scripts to query stuff like that

But requires plex to be running, I'm sure. Also, last I checked, plex isn't FLOSS.

true

Also, MusicBrainz has music videos. beets needs video support to handle those properly.

video is a all other (huge) deal, I'm afraid beets would become overly complicated if it did that well enough

Hence why the issue is calling for modularity. :)

Which would allow it to also be able to handle e.g., eBooks.

This is more of a plugin work instead of something to use Beets dev time on imo

It still required beets to support it. Also, I'm not sure how you're distinguishing the two. :)

Only if you want to get in on the docs website :P

Still think this is more of a FileBot thing, especially the way the github OP write :P If it was for music videos. Is there a "imdb for music videos"?

Lots of programs like Sonarr use FileBot to rename filenames CLI style

MusicBrainz has information on music videos.

DjSlash: Oh. I didn't know queries could be paths. Thanks!

can I print all fields of a given element of the library? like beet ls -f '$all' <some_path> ?

After modifying a non tagged element, it went into $MY_LIB_DIR/Artist/557/Track.mp3. I don't know where the 557 album name comes from. Actually, the track doesn't have an album. How can I move the element to $MY_LIB_DIR/Non-Album dir like if I had done beet import -s at first?

sim590: You might want to use the `info` plugin.

And for that, you could try re-importing with the -s flag. (No need to remove first.)

sampsyo: thanks!

I'm trying to use the plugin http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.3/plugins/a.... It says: "The plugin works on music with a MusicBrainz track ID attached." What does it mean?

What's a track ID and how do I attach it?

Oh. I think I have misunderstood what this plugin does. I thought it was helping me recognize a tune, but it doesn't.

beet sometimes hangfs and I have to ctrl+c 3 times so it stops.