Adrian Sampson

Yep, that’s a perfect summary. This thing about exceptions is still a sort of surprising downside of the Python 3 transition.

Good question; yes! The problem lies in our need to write raw bytes to stdout. The most prominent place where this comes up is when printing filesystem paths. On Unix,...

That seems like a great idea to at least try! I can imagine _something_ going wrong with Windows' special treatment of UTF-16, but it could totally work. If somebody has...

Indeed! These are ["flexible attributes"](https://beets.io/blog/flexattr.html) and do not have tag mappings in beets. We could imagine changing this, but we'd need somebody to come up with a proposal for exactly...

OK! I'm marking this as a feature request—the task, should anyone choose to pick it up, would be to mirror the tag mappings that the new Picard plugin is now...

The main thing that would need to be done is to extend [MediaFile](https://github.com/beetbox/mediafile), which contains all the mappings to specific tag formats. See the long list of `MediaField` declarations, starting...

Hi! Thanks for the discussion—this is a fairly frequent question, but it's not usually as clearly elaborated as it is here. It sounds like there are two separate issues: 1....

Cool. I'm marking this as a feature request for the first part: a version of "asciify" that only affects punctuation.

Let's keep this alive.

Hi there—yes; this is indeed frustrating. See also #400 for disabling the MB source entirely. That request should be generalized to also include de-prioritizing it with respect to other (plugin)...