Ah! Yes, those are Unix shell commands. You might try Cygwin or the new “Bash on Ubuntu on Windows” or looking for PowerShell-based alternatives to that pipeline.
> On Oct 31, 2016, at 9:22 PM, kccourier <[email protected]> wrote: > > Maybe it is because I'm running my beets installation on a windows pc and > xargs does not run in windows powershell. > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 6:54 PM, kccourier <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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 > <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/422> > > Good luck! > > Adrian > > > On Oct 31, 2016, at 12:34 AM, kccourier <[email protected] > > <mailto:[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] > > <mailto:beets-users%[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 a topic in the Google > Groups "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beets-users/fmoilyuCXb4/unsubscribe > <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] > <mailto:beets-users%[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] > <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.
