Hi there! I'm trying to batch modify a dozen of albums with wrong original_year (probably from discogs imports); I found out that the "modify" command doesn't (yet?) accept templates, so I thought of a simple xargs command; but I'm banging my head against it without any results.
I built the arguments with a simple beet ls -a original_year:0000 -f'"album:$album" original_year=$year' that returns the correct list of arguments: "album:Ten Bulls" original_year=1998 "album:Amarantine (Special Christmas Edition)" original_year=2006 "album:Absolutely Free" original_year=1967 "album:Freak Out!" original_year=1966 "album:Uncle Meat" original_year=1968 [...] but when I try to pass these lines to "beet modify" via xargs, something goes wrong: beet ls -a original_year:0000 -f'"album:$album" original_year=$year' | xargs -p -I STR -- beet modify -a STR this command echoes a commandline (for confirmation, with the -p xargs argument) that seems to be perfect: beet modify -a "album:Ten Bulls" original_year=1998 ?... but when I confirm the execution, beets returns error: no modifications specified If I copy and paste the command to test the syntax, it's executed correctly. What am I missing? For the sake of completeness, I have to use the xargs -I syntax because my version of the command (docker contained) doesn't support the -d argument. Thank you! -- 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.
