If you’re interested in a new feature in beets, please open a feature request ticket on the GitHub issue tracker. It can be really helpful if you explain in lots of detail how exactly you think the feature should work.
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 10:48 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Beets finds lots of hits for albums, tracks, etc. and has you pick one. Why > can't it do that for the multiple albums in a track ? (also in this example, > the tracks have only one album on musicbrainz). > > On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 11:14:58 PM UTC-4, Adrian Sampson wrote: > Aha! Thanks for sending the link. I finally understand. > > Here’s the deal: beets tagged those files, but it *didn't change the `album` > field*. The album field is left exactly how you had it. > > The problem is that there’s no album information for beets to apply. In > MusicBrainz, recordings (i.e., tracks) can appear on multiple albums. So even > though beets found a match for a given track, it doesn’t necessarily know > what album it was on. So it doesn’t set the fields `album`, `albumartist`, et > cetera. You might want to clear those out with a `beet modify`. > > Adrian > > >> On Aug 9, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Adrian Sampson <adrian....@ <>gmail.com >> <http://gmail.com/>> wrote: >> >> Yeah, a Dropbox link would work great. And can you also include the config >> and command we should use to reproduce the problem? >> >>> On Aug 9, 2016, at 9:26 AM, cla...@ <>zzzcomputing.com >>> <http://zzzcomputing.com/> wrote: >>> >>> If I import a single track, it does what's expected. beets is confused by >>> the fact that I have 20 files that are all already tagged and file-located >>> as though they are all from the same album, which they are not. >>> >>> Is there a place I can upload 85M of files for you ? dropbox or something ? >>> >>> On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 8:28:54 AM UTC-4, Adrian Sampson wrote: >>> My apologies, but I think I no longer understand what’s going on here. Is >>> there some reproducible test case you can provide, including the file, >>> starting from an empty library and importing a single track? >>> >>>> On Aug 8, 2016, at 3:18 PM, cla...@ <>zzzcomputing.com >>>> <http://zzzcomputing.com/> wrote: >>>> >>>> The files don't have MBIDs before I start importing. Here's what we start >>>> with: >>>> >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/01 01HEY GOVIND HEY GOPAL- >>>> NANAK.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/02 02 HARI TUM HARO JAN KI >>>> PEER.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/03 03 TUM MERI LAKHO RAJ ARI- >>>> SU.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/04 04 DEENAN DUKH HARAN >>>> DEV-SURD.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/05 05 KANHA TORI JOHAT.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/05 05 SABSE OONCHI PREM SAGAI- >>>> S.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/06 06 JAI RADHA MADHAV.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/06 06 RADHA AISI BHAI SHYAM KI >>>> D.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/07 07 MURLI MANOHAR GOPALA.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/07 07 PRABHU JI TUM CHANDHAN >>>> HUM.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Aarti Hanuman Ji Ki.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Jai Ganesh Jai Ganesh >>>> Deva.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Jai Jag Janani Jai Jai.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Jai Jagdish Hare 2.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Jai Jagdish Hare.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Jai Jai Jai Ravi Dev.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Jai Jai Jai Tulsi Mata.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Jai Laxami Mata.mp3 >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/32 Jai Parvati Mata.mp3 (19 >>>> items) >>>> >>>> >>>> Then Ill do an import, lets say I did about five files, many others I have >>>> to skip because they can't be identified, and also I did "aBort" before i >>>> got to the end just to show what it's doing. >>>> >>>> Here's a few of the finds: >>>> >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/01 01HEY GOVIND HEY GOPAL- >>>> NANAK.mp3 >>>> Correcting track tags from: >>>> Aarti - 01HEY GOVIND HEY GOPAL- NANAK >>>> To: >>>> Jagjit Singh - Hey Gobind Hey Gopal >>>> URL: >>>> http://musicbrainz.org/recording/f7fc29c0-d7ac-4882-a1bf-e0e2a495a192 >>>> <http://musicbrainz.org/recording/f7fc29c0-d7ac-4882-a1bf-e0e2a495a192> >>>> (Similarity: 79.5%) (artist, title) >>>> [A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, Enter search, enter Id, aBort, >>>> eDit, edit Candidates? A >>>> >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/02 02 HARI TUM HARO JAN KI >>>> PEER.mp3 >>>> Correcting track tags from: >>>> Aarti - 02 HARI TUM HARO JAN KI PEER >>>> To: >>>> Jagjit Singh - Hary Tum Haro Jan Ki Peer >>>> URL: >>>> http://musicbrainz.org/recording/e2f04a67-d8fd-4fea-818e-feb62445c453 >>>> <http://musicbrainz.org/recording/e2f04a67-d8fd-4fea-818e-feb62445c453> >>>> (Similarity: 84.5%) (artist, title) >>>> [A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, Enter search, enter Id, aBort, >>>> eDit, edit Candidates? a >>>> >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/03 03 TUM MERI LAKHO RAJ ARI- >>>> SU.mp3 >>>> Correcting track tags from: >>>> Aarti - 03 TUM MERI LAKHO RAJ ARI- SU >>>> To: >>>> Jagjit Singh - Tum Mery Rako Laaj Hari >>>> URL: >>>> http://musicbrainz.org/recording/778017ed-0175-4ba9-8c92-96a141badf3c >>>> <http://musicbrainz.org/recording/778017ed-0175-4ba9-8c92-96a141badf3c> >>>> (Similarity: 76.5%) (artist, title) >>>> [A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, Enter search, enter Id, aBort, >>>> eDit, edit Candidates? a >>>> >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/04 04 DEENAN DUKH HARAN >>>> DEV-SURD.mp3 >>>> Correcting track tags from: >>>> Aarti - 04 DEENAN DUKH HARAN DEV-SURD >>>> To: >>>> Jagjit Singh - Deenan Dukh Haran Dev >>>> URL: >>>> http://musicbrainz.org/recording/7338031a-57d7-4f90-aab9-47d901da8151 >>>> <http://musicbrainz.org/recording/7338031a-57d7-4f90-aab9-47d901da8151> >>>> (Similarity: 81.6%) (artist, title) >>>> [A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, Enter search, enter Id, aBort, >>>> eDit, edit Candidates? a >>>> >>>> >>>> these are working great but it is of course very time consuming to get >>>> through them on track-by-track. >>>> >>>> Then at the end, here's the end result: >>>> >>>> [classic@zotac ~]$ .venv/bin/beet list >>>> Aarti - Vaishnodevi - 05 KANHA TORI JOHAT >>>> Aarti - Vaishnodevi - Aarti Hanuman Ji Ki >>>> Anup Jalota - Vaishnodevi - Radha Aisi Bhai >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Hey Gobind Hey Gopal >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Hary Tum Haro Jan Ki Peer >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Tum Mery Rako Laaj Hari >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Deenan Dukh Haran Dev >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Sabseoonchi Prem Sagai >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Jai Radha Madhav >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Murli Manohar Gopala >>>> Jagjit Singh & Chitra Singh - Vaishnodevi - Jai Ganesh Deva >>>> >>>> >>>> The problem is, *there is no such album Vaishnodevi". It has ignored >>>> the actual album that was located for all of those tracks from Jagjit >>>> Singh. Only "singleton" mode has this problem. If I run "beet import" >>>> against each single mp3 file at a time, it doesn't go into singleton mode, >>>> and it works great. For example: >>>> >>>> [classic@zotac ~]$ .venv/bin/beet import test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/03\ >>>> 03\ TUM\ MERI\ LAKHO\ RAJ\ ARI-\ SU.mp3 >>>> >>>> /home/classic/test_music/Aarti/Vaishnodevi/03 03 TUM MERI LAKHO RAJ ARI- >>>> SU.mp3 (1 items) >>>> Finding tags for album "Aarti - Vaishnodevi". >>>> Candidates: >>>> 1. Jagjit Singh - Kare Krishna A Live Concert (26.0%) (missing tracks, >>>> artist, album, ...) >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>> now it found it. beet list now shows: >>>> >>>> Jagjit Singh - Kare Krishna A Live Concert - Tum Mery Rako Laaj Hari >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Hey Gobind Hey Gopal >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Hary Tum Haro Jan Ki Peer >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Tum Mery Rako Laaj Hari >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Deenan Dukh Haran Dev >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Sabseoonchi Prem Sagai >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Jai Radha Madhav >>>> Jagjit Singh - Vaishnodevi - Murli Manohar Gopala >>>> Jagjit Singh & Chitra Singh - Vaishnodevi - Jai Ganesh Deva >>>> >>>> >>>> Now we have that same track, "Tum Mery Rako Laaj Hari", *twice*. One with >>>> the right album, one with the wrong one. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I don't seem to be able to do any kind of "reimport" on these tracks >>>> however, all the documentatinon of "beet import -L" and such doesn't seem >>>> to do anything, even if I try pointing it at just one track. >>>> >>>> This is something that beets is doing 99% of the work within, and there is >>>> one weird behavior right at the end. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 1:51:44 PM UTC-4, Adrian Sampson wrote: >>>> Hmm, maybe I don’t quite understand—if you already have MBIDs in those >>>> files, beets should use them when you import them as singletons. Does it >>>> not? If not, that’s a bug we should try to reproduce. >>>> >>>>> On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:12 PM, cla...@ <>zzzcomputing.com >>>>> <http://zzzcomputing.com/> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> OK so that's sounding like this is really not supported as a top-level >>>>> task. >>>>> >>>>> It seems quite simple: >>>>> >>>>> 1. figure out the correct artist / album for mp3 file by searching >>>>> musicbrainz, discogs, etc. (beets does this) >>>>> >>>>> 2. tag the mp3 file with that artist / album that musicbrainz lists for >>>>> the track, erasing anything currently there (beets will not do this >>>>> unless I manually edit each by hand and re-type the name that it already >>>>> has right there) >>>>> >>>>> 3. place in the correct directory >>>>> >>>>> Basically beets won't allow me to do this without manually editing the >>>>> id3 tags, even though beets has already made me go through every track >>>>> individually and look up the musicbrainz id for each. It's literally >>>>> throwing away the information it's already found and which I want to >>>>> keep. I'm a programmer so there's no reason for me to edit things >>>>> individually when the data is there to automate it. >>>>> >>>>> Which means I'm back to, "hey why don't I write a script to hit >>>>> musicbrainz for all my mp3s and force them to be cataloged correctly" . >>>>> I'm looking into the beets plugin process as well but that seems like I >>>>> really have to code to the internals of Beets (like maybe flipping >>>>> is_album=True in SingletonimportTask, not sure) - not really sure that's >>>>> worth it here. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> , and if I'm going to get into manual id3 tag editing, Ithen I'd just >>>>> write a script myself to hit the musicbrainz API and write the data. It >>>>> refuses to ignore or erase the incorrect album / artist. >>>>> >>>>> On Monday, August 8, 2016 at 9:25:59 AM UTC-4, Adrian Sampson wrote: >>>>> Yeah, the `edit` plugin would work, and so would the more CLI-oriented >>>>> `beet modify album=foo`. >>>>> >>>>> You could also import the with the flags `-ts`, which would turn on timid >>>>> mode—i.e., avoid trusting the current metadata—and then you can enter a >>>>> manual album and artist for the search. >>>>> >>>>> One final option would be to turn on acoustic fingerprinting with the >>>>> `chroma` plugin, which could do a reasonable job at guessing the original >>>>> metadata. >>>>> >>>>> Adrian >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:11 AM, cla...@ <>zzzcomputing.com >>>>>> <http://zzzcomputing.com/> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Ok well I'm basically looking to "de-mixtape" these tracks. That is, >>>>>> just make them as though I just have a handful of songs that need to be >>>>>> grouped into partial albums that they came from originally. So I don't >>>>>> need to group them on that "mixtape" id at all. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm guessing that if I totally scrubbed these of the fake artist and >>>>>> album name, then just imported them as though they were just mixed up, >>>>>> then it would do it? Of course another issue is that half the songs on >>>>>> this particular "mixtape" as well as a bunch of others aren't in the >>>>>> musicbrainz or discogs database at all but I'll try to deal with that >>>>>> separately. Would I try to use "beet edit" or something to scrub them >>>>>> out totally? the "scrub" plugin didn't seem to really do the right >>>>>> thing on the first try but hard to tell where beets cares about the >>>>>> directory structure vs. the id3 tags. >>>>>> >>>>>> thanks for the quick response. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 6:55:56 PM UTC-4, Adrian Sampson wrote: >>>>>> Yeah, that’s a tricky case. When we originally introduced singletons, >>>>>> many years ago now, the idea was for exactly this case—when you have >>>>>> mixtapes from friends with an assortment of unrelated songs. >>>>>> >>>>>> Really, the “beets way” would be to leave them as singletons and add an >>>>>> extra flexible attribute that links them together. For example, `beet >>>>>> modify mixtape=cruise2006` or something could mark all the members of a >>>>>> mixtape. Then, you’d use a path rule to group mixtapes together in their >>>>>> own directories. >>>>>> >>>>>> The only trouble, of course, is that this approach doesn’t preserve >>>>>> order. (Beets needs a “playlists” concept.) But you could consider using >>>>>> the track field, or even another flexible attribute, to define the order. >>>>>> >>>>>> I hope that helps. Good luck, and please ask more questions! >>>>>> >>>>>> Adrian >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Aug 7, 2016, at 6:45 PM, cla...@ <>zzzcomputing.com >>>>>>> <http://zzzcomputing.com/> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 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/6f80178a-9fb4-4e5e-8901-59c7fe9563cf> >>>>>>> http://musicbrainz.org/recording/e2f04a67-d8fd-4fea-818e-feb62445c453 >>>>>>> <http://musicbrainz.org/recording/e2f04a67-d8fd-4fea-818e-feb62445c453> >>>>>>> http://musicbrainz.org/recording/7ab29996-6032-474a-975d-1fca8f20edab >>>>>>> <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 ? 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