Hello Daniel, Here is part of my config related to your questions :
> plugins: bucket > paths: > singleton: %bucket{$artist}/$artist/$artist-%asciify{$title} > comp: Others $genre/VA-$album-$year/$track-$artist-%asciify{$title} > default: Others > %bucket{$albumartist}/$albumartist/$albumartist-$album-$year/$track-%asciify{$title} > bucket: > bucket_alpha: ['[0-9]', '[ABC]', '[DEF]', '[GHI]', '[JKL]', '[MNO]', > '[PQR]', '[STU]', '[VWX]', '[YZ]'] Please enter a bug <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues> with relevant information if bucket plugin continue not to work for you. About fetching tags, please have a look at the metadata plugins section <https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.19/plugins/index.html#metadata> in the docs. regards, Le jeudi 11 août 2016 13:18:02 UTC+2, Daniel Köbsch a écrit : > > Hi all, > > i'm currently (re)organizing my music collection and beets was recommended > all around ;) > i have a working beets setup here on an Desktop PC with archlinux. > Now, before moving files to the archive for real i'd really like to learn > from ppl who did this before. > > > the archive will be /external-usb/archive > ~1k albums in flac and 1k asorted files, > you know: these "wonder~l.song-artist.unkown(RMXRemix).mp3"... :) > > current structure is > /path/to/music/A-C, /path/to/music/D-F, ..., /path/to/music/X-Z > /path/to/music/Compilations/$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 beets-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.