#beets

How do you reference a single tick in a replace function?

doing ('\'' : '') breaks my vim ft highlighting, which leads me to believe that's not acceptable in yaml

can that lhs be in quotation marks? eg: "'": ''

etc?

Yeah. thanks for that link

more I think about it, I suspect the easiest way to accomplish what I want is to just do a regular expression to drop any character that isn't alphanumeric

what exactly are you trying to do?

i just want everything lowercased, I don't like when I list a directory and the filename is wrapped in quotes

eg: `"11-baby_phife's_return.flac"` -> `11-baby_phifes_return.flac`

I think this will do the trick

'[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]': ''

I figure I can put all sorts of accurate and beautiful unicode in the id3s, my files might be ugly and misspelled but at least they're easy to deal with

sielicki: I think you can probably also use posix character classes.

[:alnum:] specifically

I guess you also have _ and -

can you use those keywords in beets? In the documentation the defaults aren't expressed that way

eg: they have [\x00-\x7F] where you could use :ascii:

many modern regex libraries allow it

I suppose this is all python, so you probably can

I think the question is more about python than beets

regardless, the regex I proposed is doing its job so far, so I'm not gonna complain.

thanks for the help.

FunkyELF: I really, really, really recommend reading *all* of the beets documentation over before starting to use it. Even if you forget 90% of it right away, reading everything will give you an idea of what is there so you can look it up when you get stuck on something.