I think you’ve inadvertently supplied the -s flag is a way that’s making beets ignore it: because it’s preceded by -l, beets is writing log messages to a text file called `-s`! Try removing the `-l` flag or giving a filename after it.
We do have a donation section at beets.io <http://beets.io/>, but it recommends my preferred route—donate to some worthy causes “in our name”! > On Oct 21, 2016, at 11:10 AM, Ryan Barraclough <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply Adrian, it works great thanks! > > Is there a way to use only artist and track data to find the first release of > an album? > > For instance, with > beet import -l -s -i /media/alarazr/External/Music/CAKE/ > > > I get > > Tagging: > Various Artists - Columbia Fall Retail Convention Sampler 2001 > URL: > http://musicbrainz.org/release/f8a3ec99-eef4-4502-8423-595b76300829 > (Similarity: 46.1%) (missing tracks, tracks) (CD, 2001, US, Columbia) > * Short Skirt Long Jacket -> Short Skirt Long Jacket (id) > Missing tracks: > ! You Are the Best Part of Me (#2) (4:02) > ! What It Is (#3) (3:41) > ! Would? (#4) (3:29) > ! Lifetime (#5) (5:33) > ! Hard Time Hustlin' (#6) (4:31) > ! Chop Suey (#7) (3:33) > ! Summer Days (#8) (4:53) > ! Hardball (#9) (4:00) > ! Your Body Is a Wonderland (#10) (4:08) > ! Ballin' Out of Control (#11) (3:10) > ! Rock City (#12) (4:07) > ! Stomp (#13) (2:40) > ! Peaceful World (#14) (4:06) > ! New York State of Mind (#15) (4:33) > ! Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja (#16) (2:49) > ! For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) (#17) (3:30) > ! Superman (It's Not Easy) (#18) (3:42) > Apply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums, > Enter search, enter Id, aBort? > > 46% match seems incredible. Ideally, I'd like it to find the track from the > album Comfort Eagle and tag appropriately. > > I don't really care much for where the track came from, as long as I have > album/year/genre data. > > Also do you take donations for your work? I don't donate to many projects but > this one calls for some love! > > On Friday, 21 October 2016 15:19:33 UTC+1, Adrian Sampson wrote: > Woohoo! I’m glad you’re enjoying beets. > > You’ll want to use the -s (singleton flag) to the `beet import` command, > which works a single song at a time. > >> On Oct 21, 2016, at 8:40 AM, Ryan Barraclough <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> First of all, I've tried many pieces of software over the last few months. I >> recently discovered beets and it's fantastic. I'm struggling with a couple >> of things >> >> Although I have a few full albums, most of my collection is singletons from >> old Napster downloads and YT rips. >> >> I'd like to keep my artist/artist - title structure (to avoid having folders >> with 1 song) >> >> I have tracks 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 from album A, and track 3 from album B. beets >> wants to tag track 3 from album B to album A, even though the acoustID is >> pretty clear which album it's from >> >> Is this because of beets' primary focus on ALBUMS, or is there a config >> option I can explore somewhere? >> >> CHeers >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
