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beets duplicate plugin can't detect duplicates
Problem
Beets duplicate plugin don't detect the following duplicates.
$ beet -vv ls
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- Piano Arrangements from 2017 - The Force Theme - Star Wars
- Piano Arrangements from 2017 - The Force Theme - Star Wars
- Piano Arrangements from 2017 - The Force Theme - Star Wars
- Piano Arrangements from 2017 - The Force Theme - Star Wars
- Piano Arrangements from 2017 - The Force Theme - Star Wars
Setup
- OS:
Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)
Linux 6.1.0-13-amd64 x86_64
- beets & Python version:
beets version 1.6.0
Python version 3.11.2
plugins: duplicates, play
- Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): not applicable
My configuration (output of beet config
) is:
library: /home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/records/records.db
pluginpath: /home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/plugins
asciify_paths: yes
color: yes
import:
write: no
copy: yes
move: no
link: no
hardlink: no
reflink: no
resume: ask
languages: en bn ru
quiet: no
group_albums: yes
autotag: no
plugins: play duplicates
play:
command: cmus-remote -q
use_folders: no
relative_to:
raw: no
warning_threshold: 100
bom: no
duplicates:
album: no
checksum: ''
copy: ''
count: no
delete: no
format: ''
full: no
keys: []
merge: no
move: ''
path: no
tiebreak: {}
strict: no
tag: '' ```
The ls
shows a list of tracks that have missing metadata; why is that, how are they imported ? What does beet ls -f $path
show?
You have a certain expectation of duplicates, but you don't state what that is. You don't show what the current behavior is, nor do you state what it does (not). If I'm not mistaken, you have it configured in a way that it just won't work. You emptied the keys:
option, which disables it's default behavior. All other options also disables it's functionality (except for tag:
, which is set to an incorrect syntax). Also, the duplicates plugin has to be triggered manually.
The
ls
shows a list of tracks that have missing metadata; why is that, how are they imported ?
beet import name_of_file
What does
beet ls -f $path
show?
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/__/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[27]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[28]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[29]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[30]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[32]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[33]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[34]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[35]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[37]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[38]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[39]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[40]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[42]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[43]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[44]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[45]/00.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/[82]/00.opus
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/Piano Arrangements from 2017/00 The Force Theme - Star Wars.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/Piano Arrangements from 2017 [31]/00 The Force Theme - Star Wars.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/Piano Arrangements from 2017 [36]/00 The Force Theme - Star Wars.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/Piano Arrangements from 2017 [41]/00 The Force Theme - Star Wars.flac
/home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files/_/Piano Arrangements from 2017 [46]/00 The Force Theme - Star Wars.flac
You have a certain expectation of duplicates, but you don't state what that is. You don't show what the current behavior is,
current behavior is no output as shown below
$ beet duplicates
nor do you state what it does (not).
I want it to remove those duplicates.
If I'm not mistaken, you have it configured in a way that it just won't work. You emptied the
keys:
option, which disables it's default behavior. All other options also disables it's functionality (except fortag:
, which is set to an incorrect syntax). Also, the duplicates plugin has to be triggered manually.
this is my config.yaml
directory: /home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/files
library: /home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/records/records.db
pluginpath: /home/atom/HWD/mounts/data/Music/plugins
asciify_paths: yes
color: yes
import:
write: no
copy: yes
move: no
link: no
hardlink: no
reflink: no
resume: ask
languages: en bn ru
quiet: no
group_albums: yes
autotag: no
plugins: play duplicates
play:
command: cmus-remote -q
You wrote that you've imported these files with beet import
, but in your config you have autotag
set to no
. Which means that beets have imported these files with the metadata that existed in the files prior to the import. Your original post shows that there are no artist, title and album tags available and I suspect that mb_trackid
and mb_albumid
are also missing. Those two are the default tags which beets uses to find duplicates.
I suggest to start from scratch, get the files properly tagged/imported and than you can find duplicates if there are any.