Adrian Sampson

Thanks for the suggestion! This would be cool to have. It would require some architectural changes to the matching infrastructure, but nothing totally crazy.

Hi! Sounds mostly reasonable, but can you please clarify how the `genres` config option affects this behavior in the `mbsync` plugin currently (if at all)? https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/7ae8b9c3f076e4f31c37a8922d083441691d158b/beets/config_default.yaml#L110

To be clear, this doesn’t go in the config section for the plugin. It goes in the top-level `musicbrainz` section, as demonstrated by the file linked above. Can you give...

Got it. I'm really not sure why that would be—I would expect the MusicBrainz data to contain genres if that setting is enabled. In any case, if you're interested in...

I guess it would be good to fix beets so that it doesn't clobber genres _before_ that PR is released in the Python library…

Or perhaps even more simply, it would be good to avoid clobbering any existing genres if the ones fetched from MusicBrainz are empty...

Thanks; this should probably be marked as a bug (to do the clobber-avoidance thing).

Super cool-looking stuff; thanks for getting in touch! I would be interested to hear from people who are more active users of the web interface. In general, it's a bit...

Let's keep this alive! I still think it would be cool to break this into a few smaller components, and to gauge community interest in each piece.

Related to the genre-specific feature request in #119. See also some discussion in a half-baked pull request, #437. This will be a reasonably large task, involving changing the interface to...