the --quiet flag is your friend at the beginning of a bulk import. It will let you import everything that's a solid match, skip anything that is not, and not hang up waiting for input from you.
Once the quiet run is all done -- a big head start on your collection -- you can do a second interactive pass without the flag. Or a second --quiet pass with match quality lowered if you are less picky about fields like 'country' for otherwise identical releases. I finally arrived at import settings that skip if tracks are missing or extra, or if wholesale renaming is going on, and was very happy with this level of unattended import. On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 6:21:25 PM UTC-8, Bearcat Şándor wrote: > > It depends on a lot of factors. It depends on how fast your computer > system is, how fast you are to respond to prompts and finally how quick you > are to look through the resulting import and look for any inconsistencies. > Above all, make a backup first!! It's taken me weeks to import 1300 > albums, because i'm looking up each albums exact catalog number and making > sure that i have the *exact* album tagged from Musicbrainz. If it's not > there, then i'm adding it and waiting for the edits to be approved. > Classical takes longer than any other genre because a lot of it is not > present on Musicbrainz. > > On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 10:59:50 AM UTC-7, Leroy Walker Jr > wrote: >> >> Anyone want to guess how long it will take?? >> > -- 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.
