Benedikt

What versions of beets and beets-alternatives are you running? Re-encoding only happens when the plugin can't find the previously encoded files (or, when you change the target file format (`mobile`...

I guess I'm out of real ideas on what's going on here... a few things to try might be - run beets in verbose mode (`-vv`), although I doubt that...

> On a MacBook Pro running Big Sur, so it's APFS. I guess the one quirk I know off the top of my head if the case insensitivity and I...

> > Case-(in)sensitivity sounds like a plausible reason for this (although I don't yet see how exactly). > > Yeah, it feels like it could be a problem. Are you...

This looks good already! However, I think I'd prefer the config option to be > Another approach to the configuration might be to add an alternatives..sync-art = ["no"|"embed"|"copy"] option. (without...

I guess we would need to rename through a temporary file to avoid this. Anyone aware of a way to detect this issue such that we don't need to use...

Hi! Your report is rather sparse in details on your setup, could you provide versions for beets and beets-alternatives? The full configuration file might also be useful. Is it correct...

This might also be related to https://github.com/geigerzaehler/beets-alternatives/issues/49 if you removed those items from the library and then added them again (doing a re-import would probably have the same effect).

> Makes sense. We should probably add `mediafile` and `confuse` as explicit dependencies. Do we need to? These are integral parts of beets itself, there's no way these can be...

> For what it's worth, I think most beets users at this point just run some rev of master as the releases rarely if ever happen. It would be nice...