You might consider using a beets query to find those. For example, you could use:
$ beet ls -p title:feat to get the paths to audio files and then pipe it through `dirname` to get the enclosing directory: $ beet ls -p title:mix | while read -r line; do dirname $line; done and, finally, pipe that into `beet import`: $ beet ls -p title:mix | while read -r line; do dirname $line; done | xargs -d "\n" beet import There’s more on using `xargs` with `beet import` in this thread: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/422 Good luck! Adrian > On Oct 31, 2016, at 12:34 AM, kccourier <[email protected]> wrote: > > It looks like there is no easy way to undo the FtInTitle plugin for the files > already in my library. It seems that update and move have no effect on files > already imported using the plugin so the only option is to import the files > again with the plugin disabled. > > I either have to do a search for all folders containing "Feat." so I know > which folders I have to run a beet import command on or I have to run a beet > import -q for the entire library. > > Neither option is desirable as the former involves way too much of my time > manually searching for folders to import while the latter involves way too > much unnecessary computer processing slowing down my system. > > What I need is a batch file which will search my library and only run a beet > import -q for any folder containing an mp3 or flac file with "Feat." in the > filename. I'm just not sure how exactly to get a batch file to do that. > > -- > 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 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.
