Thanks for the quick response although I don't understand it. I can run the first command to get the file listing no problem but but am not sure what I'm supposed to do after that. Trying to run the next command just give me an error message.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Adrian Sampson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/beets-users/fmoilyuCXb4/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.
