Hi! We don't currently have a way to remove a specific tag from a file entirely. You might be interested in the discussion surrounding this pull request: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/919
> On Jun 16, 2016, at 2:29 PM, Laurent Van Dessel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm wondering if the following is in a way achievable. > > 1. I have a music library filled with full albums but also some single tracks > (they don't have a value for the fields "track", "disctotal" & "albumartist") > 2. I ran the lastgenre plugin to retrieve a correct genre for each one of my > tracks and saved it in the database (I don't write away immediately) > 3. Now when I run "beet write -p" in preview mode I notice that it's going to > fill a couple of other fields than only the new genre > a. the field "albumartist" gets overridden with the "artist" (not really > an issue) > b. the field "disctotal" gets 0/0 as value > c. the field "track" also gets 0/0 as value > 4. I would want these fields to stay empty as they are the way I imported > them. I only want the new genre value to be written to the database. > > I tried to do a beet modify track="" disctotal="" but that doesn't change its > value. > I don't want a track number of 0 as I'm going to reupload these tracks to > google music. And that shows the track number before each song. Don't want to > have shown 00 before each track without album :) > > Thanks! > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
