Woohoo! I'm glad that technique seems to be working. > On Aug 16, 2016, at 6:38 PM, François-Xavier Thomas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks for the pointer! I'll add a PR to document this when I get to it. > > On the ~2000 starred songs I have, less than 1% don't match correctly > now, mostly because some people put the same name on multiple songs in > a single album. I should be able to do something about that. > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Adrian Sampson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yes, it is possible! The `lastimport` plugin is a good example: >> https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/beetsplug/lastimport.py#L215-L218 >> >> Basically, you can construct an object from the `dbcore.query` module and >> pass it to `lib.items` instead of a string. >> >> Adrian >> >> >> On Aug 15, 2016, at 5:01 PM, François-Xavier Thomas <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I quickly whipped together a working prototype in order to see if my idea >> works. >> >> I'm unclear about one thing. I'm doing something like this to match >> Subsonic media files with Beets' items : >> >> query = ( >> >> ... "artist:%s" % artist, >> ... "title:%s" % title, >> ... "album:%s" % album, >> ... ) >> >> matches = lib.items(query) >> >> >> Handcrafting a string query seems inefficient ; it also returns >> multiple results if a song title is a substring of another (e.g. >> "Song" and "Song (Instrumental)"), which is Not Good™. I didn't find >> an official way to directly query the Item model in the docs[0], is >> there any? >> >> [0] http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/api.html >> >> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Adrian Sampson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Cool! Transitioning from Subsonic to a beets library seems like a common >> problem. >> >> I believe there are ID3 tags for both play count and star rating. There’s >> more about the rating tag in this thread: >> https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/122 >> >> At the moment, beets doesn’t support either, but this shouldn’t be a >> difficult change to make if you’re interested. In the mean time, you can use >> beets’s flexible attributes to store the data in the SQLite database without >> writing it to the files. >> >> These two attributes are exposed by the Subsonic API. The plan is to match >> the results with : >> >> 1) Filesystem path if possible (e.g. if Subsonic and Beets share a music >> collection) >> 2) Album/Artist/Title if there is only one result in the Beets database >> 3) Finally, user choice if there are multiple results >> >> >> This approach sounds great! >> >> Adrian >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "beets" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beets-users/_imCIAklSJU/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "beets" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beets-users/_imCIAklSJU/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
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