Adrian Sampson

It's hard to say exactly what went wrong here! Maybe the `GST_DEBUG` environment variable would cause Gstreamer to reveal more information? https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/tutorials/basic/debugging-tools.html?gi-language=c

Good point; we should fix this. For anyone interested in tackling this: the problem arises in `remove_duplicates` and `duplicate_items` in `beets.importer`. These only work at the Item level; in album...

Well, the beets database already keeps track of the image filenames associated with each album, so it should be even easier to remove the right files directly. It's just a...

Hello! I think this is roughly the same problem as #604… namely, we would like non-MB sources to _not ever_ overwrite the MBID fields with non-MBID data. This just requires...

Hmm… that may be possible, but it could be surprisingly tricky. The reason is that backends supply `AlbumInfo` and `TrackInfo` objects containing the metadata to apply, and then the `beets.autotag`...

Yes, indeed, that would be the place to do it. But we'd need to plumb through some kind of information that says "this `album_id` is unreliable; please don't use it...

Wow; this is incredibly cool!! I really like this idea—it could be useful not only for tests but also for producing nice screenshots and the like.

Including your configuration would be great! You might want to try the `ignore_video_tracks` config option: https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/config.html#ignore-video-tracks

It might be helpful to have a conversation about exactly what piece we'd like to carry forward… the warnings about ignored config options, for instance? That might deserve a fresh...

Right; we'd need a clever way to determine which fields are used (they are accessed lazily).