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music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger
In beets when you have a CD that is "artist featuring artist" there is no way to name the folder as the primary artist. This creates multiple folders and then...
### Problem The zero plugin, [per documentation](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/zero.html?highlight=zero), should erase every tag that isn't listed under `keep_fields:`. However, on my end, it keeps a bunch of tags regardless. -vv doesn't really...
The MB database uses "pseudo-releases" to provide translations of track names when there was, in fact, never a translated release. Apparently, [the correct way to handle these](http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/PICARD-145) is to use...
### Problem I created a plugin that exposes an album template field called `albumquality`. I used portions of library [dnuos](https://bitbucket.org/brodie/dnuos/src) and converted the used pieces to Python 3. Biggest feature...
### Problem When using the `-a`, `-p`, and `-F` options to the duplicates plugin simultaneously (and combined) the output varies depending on the ordering. Running this command (and various other...
### Problem When I search for files added in the last hour, I get no results, despite having added files minutes ago. If I subtract one hour from the query,...
### Work Queue Discussion I wanted to start a discussion on work queuing. With current beets functionality, you run the command `beet import ~/music` and that folder is imported but...
### Use case **beets** already comes with a plugin for computing [bpm](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/bpm.html), based on _manual_ tapping (!). However alternatives exist for _automatically_ computing the **bpm**: * [librosa](https://github.com/librosa/librosa) * [aubio](https://github.com/aubio/aubio) *...
### Problem If an artist use many aliases, the importing and auto-tagging functionality of beets and musicbrianz suggest the main artist name only, trying to fix the existing alias. As...
I spent lot of time figuring why sometimes lyrics and genre fetched via _lyrics_ and _lastgenre_ plugins were not written in the files metadata. After reading the docs I figured...