Hey,

Try: beet ls -a albumartist::^Queen$

What you're looking for is a regex query. You can read more about them
here:
http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.3/reference/query.html#regular-expressions

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Arnaud Castaner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do something that seems simple but I can't find a way to do
> it right. I want a query to look for *exactly* album artist value I
> specify. When I do "beet ls -a albumartist:Queen" I'd like to see only the
> albums from Queen, and only Queen. Instead, it gives me this:
>
> beet list -a albumartist:Queen
>
> Queen - A Day at the Races
> Queen - A Kind of Magic
> Queen - Flash Gordon
> Queen - Greatest Hits
> Queen - Greatest Hits II
> Queen - Greatest Hits III
> Queen - Hot Space
> Queen - Innuendo
> Queen - Jazz
> Queen - Made in Heaven
> Queen - News of the World
> Queen - Queen
> Queen - Queen II
> Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
> Queen - The Game
> Queen - The Miracle
> Queen - The Works
> Queens of the Stone Age - R
> Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
> Queens of the Stone Age - ?Like Clockwork
> Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime
>
> I tried using albumartist:"Queen" (added quotes) but it does the same. How
> can I get beets to search literally for the specified value?
>
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