#beets

Does anyone here use beets in such a manner that all imported files are transcoded to your library directory?

trying to make that work, and I cannot.

my end goal is to have a directory where files are imported from, and transcoded to a destination directory following all of my import options, but transcoded to another format

but at the same time, having `beet update` follow the transcoded directory for changes.

and for completeness, I want the original files to never be touched. Even by beets. I want them to stay original.

if this is not possible, how can I import files and remove all metadata on copy, including embedded album art in the flac files?

(thus having beets write it all fresh, so it's clean)

phunyguy: http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.6/plugins/z...

DjSlash: I did see that plugin, but I think that actually removes the fields permanently, as in it doesn't fill the stuff back in with new tags/art

there's the from_scratch importer option, but that didn't appear to remove embedded album art.

oh, wait a minute.. maybe it did work.

I commented out my embedart plugin options, but I don't think I commented out the loading of the plugin, so maybe some defaults applied.

error reading /tmp/tmp6rbXfZ.ogg: '/tmp/tmp6rbXfZ.ogg': of mutagen type OggFLAC - well then.

so far the convert plugin is doing what I want it to do, but it can't seem to pull the converted file out of /tmp.

alright I think I nailed down what my issue was. If no remote cover image is found, and one exists already in the file, it keeps it, which sometimes is a weird funky format that confuses ffmpeg when I want to convert these later on to ogg.

beets creates the embedded art as Stream #0:1: Video: mjpeg, yuvj444p(pc, bt470bg/unknown/unknown), 1024x1024 [SAR 300:300 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc - as far as ffmpeg is concerned.

Some of these source files have: Stream #0:1: Video: png, rgb24(pc), 1280x1280, 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc - instead

if you try to convert that source file to say ogg (opus or vorbis), it fails.

DjSlash: and I tested that zero plugin. Even with fetchart/embedart set, it still strips out the image after embedding it. (weird, right?)

next question... beet list length:..4:30, doesn't seem to work for me.

I get nothing returned, even though I know I have tracks shorter than that.

phunyguy: works fine for me

😞

can't help you with the other issue though

length: 63.2746485261

are you sure you imported the tracks?

that's one of them.

yeah they are there

and you let beets tag them?

$ beet list squid

deadmau5 - stuff i used to do - Squid

that's the 63 second track.

so beet list length:..4:30, should list that track, and it isn't

sure the time format of the track is correct? I mean 63 _is_ larger than 4

in the doc link I pasted, it says you can use M:SS notation

and that example is directly from that page

The length field also lets you use a “M:SS” format. For example, this query finds tracks that are less than four and a half minutes in length:

yeah, but what do yo get for e.g. length:..90 ?

does it still not display the track?

correct.

it does not.

I even made the number astronomically large

returns nothing.

then something seems broken, maybe your library. Any other tags where it fails?

I would say it's broken, but I started over with this and only imported a few tings fresh

things*

can't really help you then, I'm far from really understanding beets

same 😞

just want basic things to work.

like in this instance, I want to mark tracks shorter than 1 minute as "inactive" so they end up in a different part of my filesystem.

Ahahahahaah

I'm an idiot

that document has "length" highlighted, so it puts a space between length and :

the space shouldn't be there.

neither of us did use a space here ;-)

well I copied from the page, not my command

which took the space out

beet list length :..4:30 - was what I was trying

yeah, a simple but crucial difference :)

I've been at this too long.

all weekend. 😞