I'll figure it out eventually. I think I will try installing Win-bash and running it from there
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Adrian Sampson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm… those were just a few standard Unix shell constructs. If you need > help debugging your shell commands, Stack Overflow and SuperUser generally > have pretty good advice. > > On Oct 31, 2016, at 7:54 PM, kccourier <[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]> > 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/to >> pic/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. > > > -- > 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.
