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beets

Flexible music library manager and tagger

Directories

Set directory for storing music.

directory: ~/Music
library: ~/.config/beets/musiclibrary.db

Import

import:
    # Write metadata to music files:
    write: yes

    # Move imported files from source to the music directory.
    move: yes
    copy: no
    delete: no

Files matching these patterns are deleted from source after import:

clutter: ["Thumbs.DB", ".DS_Store", "*.m3u", ".pls", "*.jpg"]

Paths

Set paths and filenames for music files relative to music directory:

paths:
    default: Albums/$albumartist/$year-$album/$track-$title
    singleton: Singles/$artist-$title
    comp: Compilations/$year-$album/$track-$artist-$title

Filename for the album art:

art_filename: cover  # results in "cover.jpg"

Replace following characters in path:

replace:
    '[\\/]': _
    '^\.': _
    '[\x00-\x1f]': _
    '[<>:"\?\*\|]': _
    '\.$': _
    '\s+$': ''
    '^\s+': ''
    '^-': _
    ' ': _

Plugins

Use following plugins:

plugins: the fetchart scrub spotify info ftintitle edit