Hi Adrian, Finally coming around to putting my collection on a larger hard drive and wanted to check something before I dive in and do this...
You say that '-A' "just trusts all the metadata on the files, including MBIDs". Is this true if I were to take my collection with NO existing associated database and attempt to start a new Beets database? Basically, I have now manually copied over my entire file structure to a new location, now I want to do a clean install of ubuntu server and Beets and start a new database. So the question is, is the MBID stored in the file metadata or the Beets database? So when I import (with -A), it'll automatically track the correct MBIDs that I've already selected from a previous import into (essentially) a different Beets instance/database. Many thanks, Jonathan On Saturday, June 6, 2015 at 11:26:18 PM UTC+1, Adrian Sampson wrote: > > If I were you, I would probably use a non-autotagged import (-A). This > just trusts all the metadata on the files, including the MBIDs, and doesn’t > try to look up anything again in MusicBrainz. If you like, you can then > later use `mbsync` to do lookups based on those IDs. > > Another alternative would be to use `max_rec` to downgrade matches that > have mismatched album IDs: > http://docs.beets.io/en/v1.3.13/reference/config.html#max-rec > and then a quiet import (properly configured) would automatically skip any > bad matches. > > Adrian > > > > On Jun 6, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Jonathan Thomas <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry if this is mentioned elsewhere, but is there a way to force Beets > to re-import an album using the same MBID that was assigned to it on first > import. I'm asking because I plan to move my entire library to a different > directory soon, and I also plan to move to another drive further down the > line. When re-importing, I don't want to have to confirm the matches, I > have already chosen the correct MB release previously. I know a quiet > import will help me avoid a long import process, but I don't want to risk > Beets assigning the albums to the wrong releases. > > > > Thats a long winded way of me asking, can Beets let me keep the MBID > when reimporting? > > > > I guess something like: > > beet imp -f /path/to/my/album > > > > Would be great > > > > Cheers, > > Jonathan > > > > -- > > 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] <javascript:>. > > 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.
