I quickly whipped together a working prototype in order to see if my idea works.
I'm unclear about one thing. I'm doing something like this to match Subsonic media files with Beets' items : >>> query = ( ... "artist:%s" % artist, ... "title:%s" % title, ... "album:%s" % album, ... ) >>> matches = lib.items(query) Handcrafting a string query seems inefficient ; it also returns multiple results if a song title is a substring of another (e.g. "Song" and "Song (Instrumental)"), which is Not Good™. I didn't find an official way to directly query the Item model in the docs[0], is there any? [0] http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/api.html On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 12:48 AM, Adrian Sampson <adr...@radbox.org> wrote: > Cool! Transitioning from Subsonic to a beets library seems like a common > problem. > > I believe there are ID3 tags for both play count and star rating. There’s > more about the rating tag in this thread: > https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/122 > > At the moment, beets doesn’t support either, but this shouldn’t be a > difficult change to make if you’re interested. In the mean time, you can use > beets’s flexible attributes to store the data in the SQLite database without > writing it to the files. > > These two attributes are exposed by the Subsonic API. The plan is to match > the results with : > > 1) Filesystem path if possible (e.g. if Subsonic and Beets share a music > collection) > 2) Album/Artist/Title if there is only one result in the Beets database > 3) Finally, user choice if there are multiple results > > > This approach sounds great! > > Adrian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beets-users/_imCIAklSJU/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > beets-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 beets-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
