Ah, this plan now looks so much worse in hindsight. How would beets know what format to assign if there was a mixture of formats in the album... This gets back to the old issue (#2316) I raised on GitHub about supporting multiple formats of the same track, related to 1640, similar to how Calibre supports multiple book formats. But it sounds like a big paradigm shift for beets at the moment.
As a user I could imagine cases where I'd want to choose the format/quality of a given track (if multiple formats/bitrates already exist in the library, otherwise convert could do it on-the-fly) from beets: 1. I'm streaming over WAN and want to downgrade to OGG to improve my listening experience; when I get back to LAN (assuming my beets server is at home) I can upgrade back to FLAC or something. 2. I don't want to take up too much space on my phone with lossless FLAC so I'll load the MP3 or AAC for on-the-go but keep the FLAC on my server or other computer for listening at home. On Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 7:07:21 PM UTC-7, Adrian Sampson wrote: > > I believe the problem is that `format` and `bitrate` are track-level > fields, so %aunique isn't able to read them from the album structure. You > might try using the inline plugin to define album-level equivalents for > these fields, which might make this work. > > I believe "Broken Silence" must come from the label or another field in > your disambiguator list. You might try using the info plugin to list all > the fields on the music. > > Adrian > > On Apr 22, 2017, at 8:27 PM, twrightsman <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Before I posted this as an issue to the beets GitHub repo, I wanted to > make sure this wasn't an error on my end. > > I'm attempting to do a simple task: import an album that already exists in > my beets library but is of a different format. The FLAC version is already > in my library and I'm trying to import the AAC version as well. > > $ beet -vv import ~/Downloads/Hvel/Hvel\ AAC/ > user configuration: n/home/twrightsman/Documents/Dropbox/Music/config.yaml > data directory: /home/twrightsman/Documents/Dropbox/Music > plugin paths: > Sending event: pluginload > library database: > /home/twrightsman/Documents/Dropbox/Music/beetslibrary.blb > library directory: /home/twrightsman/Documents/Dropbox/Music > Sending event: library_opened > Sending event: import_begin > Sending event: import_task_created > Sending event: import_task_start > Looking up: /home/twrightsman/Downloads/Hvel/Hvel AAC > Tagging Árstíðir - Hvel > Searching for discovered album ID: db886617-dffa-4999-a19d-72061dcf2f65 > Candidate: Árstíðir - Hvel > Success. Distance: 0.00 > Album ID match recommendation is Recommendation.strong > ID match. > > /home/twrightsman/Downloads/Hvel/Hvel AAC (12 items) > Sending event: before_choose_candidate > Tagging: > Árstíðir - Hvel > URL: > https://musicbrainz.org/release/db886617-dffa-4999-a19d-72061dcf2f65 > (Similarity: 100.0%) (Digital Media, 2015, XW) > Sending event: import_task_choice > found duplicates: [43] > default action for duplicates: a > This album is already in the library! > > *Old: 12 items, FLAC, 786kbps, 44:58, 256.7 MiBNew: 12 items, AAC, > 160kbps, 44:58, 55.1 MiB* > [S]kip new, Keep both, Remove old? K > [truncated] > $ ls Árstíðir > Hvel Hvel [] > $ beet move > Moving 12 items. > $ ls Árstíðir > Hvel [] Hvel [Broken Silence] > > ---------------- > And my beets config: > > $ beet config > > plugins: edit mbsync absubmit > acoustid: > apikey: [redacted] > > paths: > default: *$albumartist/$album%aunique{albumartist album,albumtype > year label albumdisambig format bitrate}/$track $title* > singleton: Singles/$artist/$title%aunique{artist title,year label > format bitrate} > comp: Compilations/$album%aunique{albumartist album,albumtype year > label albumdisambig format bitrate}/$track $title > > ui: > color: yes > > import: > copy: yes > write: yes > resume: ask > languages: en > threaded: yes > directory: /home/twrightsman/Documents/Dropbox/Music > library: /home/twrightsman/Documents/Dropbox/Music/beetslibrary.blb > edit: > ignore_fields: id path > albumfields: album albumartist > itemfields: track title artist album > absubmit: > extractor: '' > > Beets is obviously detecting the format/bitrate differences between the > two albums at import time but it names the FLAC album something strange > "Hvel [Broken Silence]" when I'm expecting "Hvel [AAC]" then I expect the > original FLAC Hvel album to rename to "Hvel [FLAC]" when I run "beet move" > but nothing happens. I have no idea where this "Broken Silence" string is > coming from, it is not in my beets library. > > -- > 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.
