Adrian Sampson

Hello! When you report a problem, it *really* helps us if you use the issue template. I know it looks like a lot of extra information, but actually including the...

Thank you; this is indeed very helpful! I think the issue may have to do with the specific fields that are being updated here. In particular: - Beets does not...

This is a pretty interesting idea. I see the desire here—while _most_ config options should be "overlayed," I can see that _some_ config options (such as `plugins`) could benefit from...

Hi there—super interesting feature; thanks for getting it started! This seems like a version of a very old feature idea, #116. I have a couple of high-level thoughts: - What...

Good question. I think that is the desired behavior, in the sense that it's most predictable: "merging" albums by combining tracks from different bundles could easily become surprising for users,...

Ah, yes, indeed, separating out the tracks from an album seems quite a bit more complicated. How about we stick with the "average bitrate" thing for now (and only replacing...

Hello! The option actually does not do transliteration itself; it uses aliases available in the MusicBrainz database. Can you link to the artist/release in the MB database, and check whether...

It looks like the "Kouji Ueno" alias doesn't have a language/locale assigned, so beets doesn't select it according to your language setting `en`.

> How come MusicBrainz Picard manage to select it ? With apologies, I don't know how Picard works w/r/t aliases. Maybe asking on Picard's forum/issue tracker/etc. would be more useful?...

This plan sounds great. I just want to add that this seems like a pretty chunky piece of work—we'd need to design the high-level abstraction, adapt front-ends, create a library...