#beets

hey, how do beets users apraoch a problem of syncing part of your music collection to Adnroid?

By copying files through samba or ssh

i have a cron job that does 2 things: beets generate a smart playlist with a subset of my songs, then for each element in the playlist create a symlink to a folder

then i use syncthing to sync the dir to my phone, having it resolve each symlink as if it was a reg file

you could do the same with rsync

groundnuty, by using subsonic

I use syncthing

BrainDamage: whoa. can you share the cronjob?

I'm using syncthing + subsonic in one of the machines

one of the things I would love to do (but I'm not tech savvy enough to do it) is to be able to 'export' (something like a 'cp -a') a beets query. For example, to be able to copy to a X folder, all 2017 albums ('beet ls -a year:2017')

use the -p flag to output filenames, and then you can pipe the results to whatever command you want

libussa: yeah, I know that _in theory_. But that's when the "not tech savvy enough" part comes in ;)

cla-, what I like to do is to use a custom convert command, that way I can easily copy beet queries, and change the folder format

see example here cla- https://pastebin.com/raw/X2HSngbW so in your case I would do: beet convert -f copy -a year:2017

humm

cla-, you can also do: beet ls -pa year:2017 | xargs -d '\n' cp --parents -Rt /path/to/destination

you need the --parents to recreate the full directory structure, otherwise you'll end up with a bunch of music files in the same dir

that's right. thanks, libussa

libussa: that worked

but with the entire path into the destination, like ~/[destination folder]/home/[user]/media/Music/Artist/album

at least it's something

yes cla- that's expected and due to --parents. You can add a mv in your command if you want to move up the music

gotcha

thanks!