Hmm; channels definitely come from the audio file's data. In this case, it's possible that our tag-reading layer wasn't able to detect 5.1 sound.
There's no definitive list of the fields that come from audio format data, so I unfortunately have to point you toward the source code: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/beets/mediafile.py#L1958 Adrian > On Nov 4, 2016, at 11:49 PM, Bearcat Şándor <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a few situations where the tags should be generated based on the file > itself instead of musicbrainz. One example is an SACD which is marked as 2 > channel on musicbrainz, but it's actually 5.1 channels. When i tagged it it > was tagged as channels:2, which tells me that it's getting this info from > Musicbrainz. > > Is there a way to tell it to get it from the file itself. If i change it to > channels:6 manually via 'beet modify' will that just be undone by another > command such as beet update? Is there a list of what tags are auto generated > from the file info (like time) and what tags are grabbed from musicbrainz? > > Thank you > > Bearcat > -- > 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.
