#beets

hi, I'm trying to import a directory with unicode symbols in it and beets seems to interpret the unicode symbols as question marks

tested my environment by simple doing a print(sys.argv) and that seems to receive the unicode correctly from windows; so it might be something in beets

calling beets without the .exe wrapper also seems to work, ala `python -m beets import <filename>`

so the .exe is doing weird things to the input I guess

guys, I just started with beets and did a beets import. It was so far very good and my music collection was finally organized with tags and folders (thank you devs and beets) BUT album arts weren't added to tracks.

what am I missing?

shreyansh_k: perhaps you need to enable the fetchart plugin?

and perhaps embedart?

ToxicFrog: Guest91481: i enabled it with 'plugins: fetchart' but it won't remove the previous incorrect album art. actually, i started with easytag and tried to apply the album art to one file but it applied the same art to all the files (because i save all the files in same folder) now there's incorrect album arts in all of them and I want to repair that.

is there some way to force update album art for all?

shreyansh_k: http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.6/plugins/f... says `beet fetchart -f`

(also sigh at znc)

fetchart will drop the image as 'cover.jpg' if I recall correctly. embedart will put it in the track itself.

ToxicFrog: Yes, I did that too. but it just finishes quickly and no cover.jpg files are being dropped.

ToxicFrog: here's my config.yml: https://pastebin.com/XzPpB75v

is there a way to have beets handle having two identical album names that are actually different albums

it just dumps it into one directory right now

Wessie: http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.6/reference... and look at "album disambiguation"

can somebody help me troubleshoot fetchart? My current config file is "directory: /run/media/shreyansh/Data/Music library: /run/media/shreyansh/Data/Music/library.db plugins: embedart fetchart lastgenre". And, I've tried 'beet fetchall -f' but no album art files are being created and no error is thrown as well. I'm so confused.

oh thanks ToxicFrog

ToxicFrog: it doesn't seem to use aunique though, it's not being triggered

oh I see why... the albums are named Home and HOME and windows doesn't do case sensitive paths; but beets does case-sensitive matching

okay, that is a really dangerous "feature"

it just deleted the duplicate album when I tried to merge into the single version

Eek

I don't use windows and it did not occur to me that that would be a possible failure mode

osx has the same problem

if you're using hfs

I used to rsync my beets directory to an hfs drive. The mac/hfs would decide that beets wanted different capitalization and rsync would transfer lots of files

shreyansh_k: What is the verbose output, i.e. beet -v fetchart -f ? Also, is there a reason why you have the `sources` array set to these specific values? `wikipedia amazon google` are not what I would consider highest quality backends. Not sure about their coverage, though, that might be alright.