If the directory hierarchy isn't "trustworthy," then the best thing we have is --group-albums. It has the effect of not trusting your directories at all and just grouping tracks into albums based on their metadata. We don't, unfortunately, have an "in between" option that *mostly* trusts your directory structure, except for rare exceptions.
Adrian > On Apr 3, 2017, at 8:54 AM, 'Ovidiu Pacuraru' via beets > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the best way to describe my situation is this: > > my files and folder structure looks like this: > > music => artist01 => album01 => track 01-10 > music => artist01 => album02 => track 01-10 > music => artist01mispelt => album01 => track 01-03 > music => artist01 => album01misspelt => track 05-08 > music => artist02 => album01 => track 01-05 > music => artist02 => album01 => track 03-09 > music => artist02 => album01 => track 01-10 > music => random_folder => album01 => track 01 > > basically some albums are properly sorted by their artist in subfolder with > all tracks, sometimes an artist is split across multiple folders like music > => Bob Marly and music => Bob Marley & The Wailers when they actually all > belong into the Bob Marley folder. Sometimes a compilation has been split by > artist so I have say 20 artist folder each with one album folder inside each > with one track inside when they actually all belong into one compilation. > > So most of the time, the meta data is right and if it isn't the folder > structure + accoustid can be used to sort music. > > What flags do you recommend to sort this huge mess into a properly organized > media library. Until now I've been going through my collection using beets > import /music/A* and then answered all the questions I was asked when > necessary, followed by beet import /music/B' and so on. Now I am somewhere > around K* and have plenty of songs which I have imported as track only as > beet ran across something like music => artis002 => album001 => track 01 BUT > I am sure more tracks belonging to the same album are aroudn somewhere as I > didn't own any single tracks, only complete albums. > -- > 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.
