Hi all, i'm currently (re)organizing my music collection and beets was recommended all around ;) i have a working beets setup here on an Desktop PC with archlinux. Now, before moving files to the archive for real i'd really like to learn from ppl who did this before.
the archive will be /external-usb/archive ~1k albums in flac and 1k asorted files, you know: these "wonder~l.song-artist.unkown(RMXRemix).mp3"... :) current structure is /path/to/music/A-C, /path/to/music/D-F, ..., /path/to/music/X-Z /path/to/music/Compilations/$genres /path/to/music/singles (<--- single mp3 files go here) /path/to/music/audiobooks Question 1) Any suggestion on an improved folder structure? I know that there a always personal preferences, but i'd like to know how others with a decent big collection. I just need some input to make an educated decision for setting up a bullet proof structure for my music collection Question 2) preserve tags - add missing tags: is that possible? Most of the CDs i backed up myself are properly tagged using musicbrainz. but of course there are more information that can be added. which plugins should i activate? Music will be played using mixxx, gmusicbrowser, audacious and poweramp, i'd really like to see as many information as possible. for example, in current setup i activated lastgenre-plugin with count:4 to get subgenres Question 3) bucket-plugin actually i have an try-and-error test setup, a folder with asorted subfolders, flacs,mp3,aac ... all that stuff i use "beets import *" on that folder and things work as expected, albums are copied to the external-usb in corresponding folders. now i tried the bucked plugin and can't get it to run. even the example from http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.19/plugins/bucket.html does not work and creates folder names like this /external-usb/archive/%bucket{$artist}/Artist/Album really stuck on this, does anybody have a working setup with automated grouping? These are my questions for now, thanks for reading into this. d -- 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.
