Hi there - I have what I would think is one of the primary use cases for beets however it seems to be unsupported.
Basically I have a bunch of tracks, all underneath a particular artist and album name, where that artist/album is completely made up. But also, each track with this album is in reality from *totally different albums*. The use case here is exactly what would happen in what I would think is the common use case of someone has a "mix tape" where every song has been tagged with someone's fake "album" name. We want to move the tracks all underneath the actual artist/album they'd be from, given that we are generating only "partial" albums that have just a few tracks. Options I'm working with to deal with this include the "scrub" plugin as well as the "group_album" option. They are still not removing the fake album name even though a *real* album name is right in the musicbrainz listing. Here is a small part of the example I'm working with, this is traditional Indian music (from my wife's collection, I don't know anything about this kind of music): /Aarti/Vaishnodevi/01 01HEY GOVIND HEY GOPAL- NANAK.mp3 /Aarti/Vaishnodevi/02 02 HARI TUM HARO JAN KI PEER.mp3 /Aarti/Vaishnodevi/04 04 DEENAN DUKH HARAN DEV-SURD.mp3 When I do "import" for these, beets can't find anything about an album "Aarti - Vaishnodevi" because there is no such thing. So my only choice is to press T for "as tracks". Whether or not I do "group albums" first does not affect the result. Then it looks up each song individually, and slowly enough I can find close enough identifiers: http://musicbrainz.org/recording/6f80178a-9fb4-4e5e-8901-59c7fe9563cf http://musicbrainz.org/recording/e2f04a67-d8fd-4fea-818e-feb62445c453 http://musicbrainz.org/recording/7ab29996-6032-474a-975d-1fca8f20edab Because I've had no choice but to select "as tracks", these are forced into "singleton" mode, which means, "there's no album", which I don't really understand since of course there's an album for each one. I've changed my "singleton" format to read "$albumartist/$album/$track $title", rather than "No Album". However, it leaves the ficticious album name in place (or if I use "scrub", I get a dash), and does not use the information from the musicbrainz listing, and I get: /Jagjit Singh/Vaishnodevi/01 Hey Gobind Hey Gopal _ Nanak.mp3 /Jagjit Singh/Vaishnodevi/02 Hary Tum Haro Jan Ki Peer.mp3 /Jagjit Singh/Vaishnodevi/04 Deenan Dukh Haran Dev _ Surdas.mp3 this is wrong. Ignoring that musicbrainz' release titles look a little off here, what it should be based on those ids, is: /Jagjit Singh/Hare Krishna: A Live Concert/01 Hey Gobind Hey Gopal _ Nanak.mp3 /Jagjit Singh/Kare Krishna A Live Concert/02 Hary Tum Haro Jan Ki Peer.mp3 /Jagjit Singh/Hare Krishna: A Live Concert/04 Deenan Dukh Haran Dev _ Surdas.mp3 Is there some option for this behavior or is this an unsupported use case ? (what do people organizing old mix tapes with bad album names do? ) -- 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.
