#beets

Hi! I'm importing a very large library into beets with -A to skip tagging and I get the following unicode error in python https://pastebin.com/YJTCckt2 i've reproduced this in both stable and git. anyone experience anything similar?

prg318_: Huh! No; that looks new. Sounds like it would be useful to file a bug!

i was thinking the same! i'll search the tracker and file if I don't see anything

added a comment here; but wondering if i should make my own issue since its kinda different https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/2393?

Hmm, yes, this does actually look different. Would you mind filing a new issue?

sure

opened https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/2585

Thanks! I'll take a look.

let me know if there is more info I can provide; not sure what filename its choking on

weirdly enough I went to reproduce it with beets -vv import -A /my/library and its chugging along now.. strange

question: Does beets do gapless playback?

It doesn't really do playback at all…

1) mpd 2) browser by HTML5 audio

trying to understand how "doesn't really do playback" fits with what the github page says about browser html5 audio and mpd

Oh yeah! I guess it does in those ways. :)

Neither of those players supports gapless, alas.

ok. good to know.

does the design of the mpd protocol basically prevent gapless playback?

or might there be some mpd library or player that can pull it off

hmm. wikipedia says mpd supports gapless playback

yup. mpd supports gapless playback https://www.musicpd.org/doc/user/intro.html

Hi guys, I'm looking for an plugin that allows me to bring log files along with imports

can you remind me the name?

Hey there, I'm getting an error that I can't make sense of, has never happened before

any idea?

actually nevermind

the problem resolved itself after i imported a different album first

then went back to the problematic one

strange

MaynardWaters: copyartifacts?

^ About that plugin. Do beets get notified of the files yet so it get moved to the new folder if you ever update it somehow?

Think I saw a suggestion on GitHub about that once

hey all, I have a storage issue. My harddisk is almost full on my debian machine so I will be adding another on for the beets library. If I add another one and change the library path in the config will the original files still point to the old paths ok?

to put it simpler my beets library is on /dev/sda1 and almost full. I want to add another disk at /dev/sda2 and continue the library. Will this mess things up? I will eventually be moving to a better solution such as raid5 or lvm once I get things sorted a bit more.

pmeeke: You can replace the directory in the beets config and just import to that. As long as you don't do `beet move`, files already registered in the library will remain where they are.

(If you do do a `git move`, all files in the library will get moved to the new `directory` you've specified.)

*beet move

Freso: Thanks was worried I would make a mess of the DB

pmeeke: The db stores files entries with full, absolute path.

Hello. Is it expected that `beet move` wants to move all the duplicates to the same file? e.g. Artist - Title.2.mp3 -> Artist - Title.mp3 and Artist - Title.1.mp3 -> Artist -> Title.mp3 ?

even though Artist - Title.mp3 already exists

Well, it wants to, yes, but I'm not sure it will.

can I make it not want to?

Shock: You can add more information into file naming scheme. E.g., bitrate or something. Whatever it is that makes the files unique. (I'm assuming the files are not 100% identical, since you want to keep both/all.)

Freso: can I use something like %aunique but for singletons?

or alternatively, have bitrate in the file name just for duplicates

I don't want the bitrate in all the file names

I don't know if there's a unique function for singletons.

What do the docs say?

I haven't found anything in the docs that I thought would apply

%aunique is referred to only in album disambiguation

doesn't mention duplicates at all

I think it's something that would make sense. Open an issue for it? (Won't mean that you'll be able to use it *right now*, but...)

Freso: is there a way to say %ifdef{$duplicate,$bitrate} ?

Shock: :shrug:

Maybe something is possible using the Python thing plugin... which I forget what is called...

>_<

inline, I think

inline, yeah.

Freso: thanks for the help

Why do you have same Artist - Title.mp3 files?

SuperSeriousCat: different bitrates

Why not get rid of the low bitrate ones?

car player likes them better

Why keep them both in the library

Use the convert plugin to push your library updates to a separate dir every now and then

they're not converted from the higher bitrate mp3

if it were me in that situation, I would just have two libaries (and optionally one big library with nomove/nocopy on)

thanks for the help

I found a solution that works for me

beets : if you can dream it, you can (probably) do it

I believe I can fly!!

can't reproduce it :/ but is it a bug if only one user experienced it and can't reproduce it? does a tree make noise in the woods when it falls if no one is around to hear it?