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Beets: The music geek’s media organizer
- LeoPanthera 11mo agoBeen using this for several years now. It's definitely not for the average user. But nothing is quite so flexible.
- aucisson_masque 11mo agoWell yes, it's not that hard to use but then even using the terminal for an average user is complicated. There is a webpage on beets website where they list all the functions and explain what it does. Very useful when you go back after half a year and can't remember how it works.
- sumnole 11mo agoThe average user likely just streams from Spotify. The users collecting mp3s are probably more tolerant to the learning curve.
- aleks5678 11mo agoThanks. I was looking for something like this.
- adg33 11mo agoI love beets - the one thing I can't figure out is how to set the genre very wide. I like having a small number of broad genres - Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz etc - but the tagging comes up with hundreds of distinct genres :(
- globular-toast 11mo agoI have this problem too. I find it completely useless to have tags like genre=Post Rock Jazz Fusion" or whatever with basically one band in each genre. The other thing I've never quite got right is how to deal with classical music and popular music with multiple pressings. A lot of the tagging structure seems oriented around popular music with just one pressing. But I have like 10 different recordings of The Planets and several versions of Red Hot Chili Pepper's Californication, for example.
- jank199x 11mo agoI assume lastgenre with canonicalization[0] enabled is what you need, along with count=1 if multiple genres are an issue. [0] https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/lastgenre.html#canonicalization https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/lastgenre.htm...
- adg33 11mo agoI think I'm using that already. Limiting to one genre I don't think will fix it - what I want is to define the allowable values for genre, and then limit to one. It's probably better with the limit one though!
- jank199x 11mo agoThere's a whitelist option. Just read the docs, really, lastgenre is very configurable.
- HyprMusic 11mo agoSet whitelist to a file path and then add a file with each genre that you want to keep on a new line. You can use the top-level genres in this file to base it off (except the whitelist isn't YAML, just a genre per line): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beetbox/beets/master/beetsplug/lastgenre/genres-tree.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/beetbox/beets/master/beets... Be sure to enable canonical so it converts the specific genres into their parent genre.
- gmg94 11mo agoI use lastgenre plugin with a short whitelist.
- Semaphor 11mo agoI recently looked into beets, but it seems it’s focused on automation, is that correct? I often buy stuff that has just been released, and that’s not yet in any database, so no automation works. My current workflow is download, unzip and manually tag (mainly genres, sometimes badly named artists/albums) with MusicBee (which gives me autocomplete for genres so I can reuse existing ones), and then copy the files to the server for Navidrome to pick them up. Throwing this out here to see if beets would actually work well with what I want after all.
- Hamuko 11mo agoIf you add a lot of new stuff to your library, you'll often need to add them to MusicBrainz yourself. I use beets and I currently have added 2697 releases (2543 release groups) to MusicBrainz.
- tuukkao 11mo agoBeets is what got me into MusicBrainz. It's an incredible resource. To be fair it's not the easiest of things to get started with and the usability could be better (release drafts, anyone?) but it's efficient once you get the hang of it.
- non-nil 11mo agoFirst: Thank you! Secondly: I wish more people did this. If you end up needing to manually enter the data, at least if you add it to a public database more people can benefit, which also makes it feel less frustrating. I'm in the midst of a major music library overhaul and would not know how I'd ever get it done without Beets. For example, it's clearing out embedded images, fetching new hi-res artwork and verifying FLAC integrity, as I go through artist by artist.
- Semaphor 11mo agoIf you are into that, that’s good, but that’s the exact opposite of making my life easier ;)
- majkinetor 11mo agoLooks like a general case. I do the same a lot with Picard and Foobar, but beats can also auto tag based on file name and populate musicbrainz. Set library directory to that of navidrome so it will be coppied there on import.
- boobsbr 11mo agoWhatever happened to MusicBrainz Picard?
- Yodel0914 11mo agoI spent a couple of nights working out how to configure beets to my liking and have loved it ever since. My “workflow” is now: - buy album on Bandcamp - download zip - beet import {zip file name} And beets extracts the zip, matches the album to musicbrainz, updates any metadata, and drops the files into the directory structure that I like (naming the files how I like them, too). Very rarely an album will need some more attention, in which case I use Picard to fix it before using beets to import it.
- Hamuko 11mo agoIsn't beets going to just overwrite whatever you did in Picard?
- siddboots 11mo agoWell, one might use picard to find a musicbrainz release id, so that beetz has something to grab on to when importing.
- Hamuko 11mo agoI mean, you can just do that in the browser too. "Enter ID" allows you to enter the MusicBrainz UUID (or just full URL). You can even do in the command itself. beet import "Iron Maiden.zip" -S 4500ad36-5f92-4e4c-bb24-3a9a57faf550
- Yodel0914 11mo agoNo, you can tell it to use the metadata as-is. Sometimes there’s just weirdness though - for example recently I bought an album and the band included all the tracks from their previous album as bonus tracks. So I used Picard to split them into the 2 “proper” albums.
- curioussquirrel 11mo agoA very similar workflow on my end, both beets as the main tagger/organizer and Picard to pick up whatever can't be processed through beets. Beets is amazing!
- tuukkao 11mo agoIf you're using Navidrome or similar to stream your music then check out beets-alternatives [0]. It lets you sync (and optionally convert) your library or a subset of it to another location, in my case my music storage mounted with Rclone. It's especially useful if you need to have a different naming structure in your target directory for whatever reason. I like to keep each disc of a multi-disc album in in its own subdirectory but most streaming servers seem to prefer all tracks of an album to be in the same directory. With Beets-alternatives I can have a different naming structure for each collection vs. having to rename my primary collection to suit whatever streaming server I happen to be using. [0]: https://github.com/geigerzaehler/beets-alternatives https://github.com/geigerzaehler/beets-alternatives
- Okawari 11mo agoOne of my favorite beets projects is beets-flask. It lets you set up fully or partially automated import pipelines with a nice web UI to manage any manual steps needed. Importing is usually as simple as dropping a zip in a folder and the rest is managed automatically. https://github.com/pSpitzner/beets-flask https://github.com/pSpitzner/beets-flask
- HyprMusic 11mo agoI've tried many times to find a nice UI for beets and somehow never come across this. It is exactly what I've been searching for all these years... Thanks for sharing!
- lrobinovitch 11mo agoNice! Have you figured out how to manage album art with beets-alternatives?
- jimbo999 11mo agoBeen using with Claude via MCP to tag a bunch of old ripped CDs - fun with mixed results.
- pooyamo 11mo agoIt's a good tool. However, last I checked, it was not possible to run it in a one-shot stateless fashion, like, passing it a list of music files so it auto-fetches album art, lyrics and updates the very same input files.
- squigz 11mo ago> Relatedly, the -q (quiet) option can help with large imports by autotagging without ever bothering to ask for user input. Whenever the normal autotagger mode would ask for confirmation, the quiet mode performs a fallback action that can be configured using the quiet_fallback configuration or --quiet-fallback CLI option. By default it pessimistically skips the file. Alternatively, it can be used as is, by configuring asis.
- paweladamczuk 11mo agoBeets with this flag works relatively well for me when wrapped in a shell script, but I have spent a lot of effort trying to make it actually non-interactive. I'm still not totally sure I got all the certainty thresholds right, I still sometimes get unexpected behavior when using Beets this way, so I agree that the non-interactive experience is lacking.
- mrmekon 11mo agoI spent a truly obnoxious amount of time importing my music library into beets. It took a couple of weeks to get to 95% imported, and got so bogged down in the last 5% that I never completed the import and never switched over. This isn't necessarily a fault with beets, really, but a model mismatch. The model of beets is very, very strongly tied to associating each imported item to one well-known, commercial release. While it's possible to stray from that, it takes tons of time and experimentation to cram some things into its model. Purchased, popular albums are a breeze; they import nicely and make sense. I struggled differing amounts with: * brand new indie label releases (bandcamp) * commercial albums variants missing from musicbrainz/discogs * non-commercial albums (self-released CDRs) * fan-recorded concerts * fan-recorded festivals (a special case, a true nightmare) * fan edits/remixes of commercial releases * playlists & mix tapes * mixed media releases Each was eventually possible, but sometimes it took hours to figure out how to import a specific folder. Worse, after doing one festival it didn't necessarily make it easier to do the next festival. Even if I get to 100% imported, additional imports will still take thought. This isn't an argument against it, I still think it's a fantastic tool. Just understand that the farther you stray from collecting commercial releases, the more of a struggle it is.
- horrorente 11mo agoThere is a Bandcamp auto-tagging plugin for beets which should at least help with the first point: https://github.com/snejus/beetcamp https://github.com/snejus/beetcamp
- squigz 11mo agoFan recordings/edits/anything that shouldn't be on Musicbrainz just gets imported as-is, with maybe some metadata additions/tweaks. > * brand new indie label releases (bandcamp) > * commercial albums variants missing from musicbrainz/discogs This is a great opportunity to fill in those blanks for those services :) I didn't have much to contribute to MB but did have a few albums to add.
- Hamuko 11mo ago>Fan recordings/edits/anything that shouldn't be on Musicbrainz Those should be on MusicBrainz. There's even a bootleg release type for fan recordings/illegal copies, and official style guides for live bootlegs. https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases/Live_bootlegs https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Specific_types_of_releases...
- Thev00d00 11mo agoA few people commenting that some of their collection "doesn't exist in any DB", the best way to fix it is to add it to Musicbrainz[0] yourself! I have found that adding things to Musicbrainz is actually pretty easy (and if you are so inclined like me, pretty rewarding and fun). Streaming releases (and Bandcamp) you simply drop the release URL into Harmony[1] and it does most of the work for you. Musicbrainz can represent nearly everything musically related and its all freely licensed, a very cool thing to exist. Most (non-destructive) edits are auto-applied, whilst the rest go through a 7 day voting period (they are still applied by default unless someone votes against). The barrier to entry is very low. 0. https://musicbrainz.org/ https://musicbrainz.org/ 1. https://harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk/ https://harmony.pulsewidth.org.uk/
- tech_ken 11mo agoWow I've needed harmony for years, thanks for sharing! My dumb ass was filling out the Musicbrainz by hand for like two months before I just gave up on beets.
- mukti 11mo agoIf you have the files downloaded, picard is also useful - https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
- CharlesW 11mo agoYou'll want to bookmark Harmony even if you're using Picard since it's driven by the same database. Happily, once you add an item using Harmony, Picard can find your just-entered release almost immediately via the Release ID of the release you just created. I find myself needing to create releases for ~10% of the albums I tag, and Harmony is a game-changer for that.
- sparky_z 11mo agoYou're still assuming that all of a person's music metadata _belongs_ in a global database. Some of my collection includes: -"frankenstein" musical soundtracks where I've assembled my favorite version of each song from all the various published recordings. Sometimes I've even edited pieces of different recordings together into a hybrid track. -a soundboard recording of my friend's high school talent show performance -Music I've personally recorded from video games or other random sources -Songs where I've edited out parts I don't like (such as overly-long drum solos) leaving just the parts I do. I've organized these things in a way that makes sense for me, not for the world. This is like a bookshelf that can only store books with an ISBN that can be classified in the Dewey decimal system. Too bad about your family photo scrapbooks or your personal sketchbooks!
- cluckindan 11mo agoAuto-tagging is nice to have but it will screw up verification checksums. I would prefer having metadata in a separate DB and keep the files as is, unless I explicitly request exporting the metadata to the original files.
- Thev00d00 11mo agoBeets can do this too! The -C option to avoid copying files and the -W option to prevent writing tags (or set it in the config file) It will still attempt to match and store the results in its DB for later writing to files, or moving, or querying. For the data to be most useful, you will need a client that connect to Beets to get the data though, Im not sure how prevelant those are. You can use the web-ui plugin though.
- dfc 11mo ago> Beets can do this too! This is the best summary of beets. It's wildly flexible and configurable.
- squigz 11mo agoI've loved beets (and MusicBrainz Picard) for years. This bit from the beets docs has always stuck with me when organizing my library. "An Apology and a Brief Interlude I would like to sincerely apologize that the autotagger in beets is so fussy. It asks you a lot of complicated questions, insecurely asking that you verify nearly every assumption it makes. This means importing and correcting the tags for a large library can be an endless, tedious process. I’m sorry for this. Maybe it will help to think of it as a tradeoff. By carefully examining every album you own, you get to become more familiar with your library, its extent, its variation, and its quirks. People used to spend hours lovingly sorting and resorting their shelves of LPs. In the iTunes age, many of us toss our music into a heap and forget about it. This is great for some people. But there’s value in intimate, complete familiarity with your collection. So instead of a chore, try thinking of correcting tags as quality time with your music collection. That’s what I do."
- Shorel 11mo agoI organize everything into Mixxx. It is tagged not only by genre, crates, some songs belong into more than one crate. Also by mood, which I tag with colours. And how much I like the song, which is by stars. I tried Beets and it was very underwhelming in comparison =)
- embedding-shape 11mo agoCorrect me if I'm wrong, but different target users here :) Beets seems to be for consumers who want to organize their music collection, and while Mixxx can help with that too, it's mainly for music connoisseurs who play for others (AKA DJs). I'm not sure how well someone looking for the first could use Mixxx, the interface isn't exactly the epitome of user-friendliness if you just wanna organize then press play :)
- Shorel 11mo agoYou are correct in your appreciation. Mixxx is best used with a DJ console, however for me it is also easily used as a player that automatically picks a song from some selected crates in Auto DJ mode. So I'm in the mood for Salsa, I put that crate as the AutoDJ source. Later I can change it to progressive rock, or 90's disco, and it will randomly pick songs from the selected crate or crates. I can also do DJ things, like looping some sections or mashup some songs.
- aquariusDue 11mo agoTried Beets once because it pairs well with Navidrome, it's pretty feature packed and exhaustive in what it does. Though after fiddling with it and realizing that it's more effort for my use case than I'd like I ditched it and now I don't really bother tagging. I hope to do the same thing for Navidrome too and find something to replace it with similar to KDE Elisa which makes it easy to make playlists on the fly and organize music around folders instead of tags. Different strokes for different folks, that's not to say that Navidrome and Beets aren't amazing pieces of kit.
- Mashimo 11mo agoI currently use OneTagger https://onetagger.github.io https://onetagger.github.io It's more for adding tags before you add them to your collection. You can setup shortcuts to often used tags. Of course it can also rename and move files based on tags. I then can auto create playlists based on those tags (with a different program)
- echelon_musk 11mo agoI've tried to use beets a number of times and given up each time. - beets can't delete transcoded files which have been deleted at source. - beets can't re transcode existing transcoded files when the source has been modified. - It's impossible to preserve the original directory structure when transcoding because it strips all path separators for "security". I use a Bash script I've been maintaining for a number of years instead.
- wswope 11mo agoHaving hit those first two pain points, I changed my transcode config to 1) run every time, and 2) use a custom bash script as the transcode command. The bash script keeps a plaintext list of files + their modtime and disk size, then only transcodes files it hasn’t seen before. Because it’s a plaintext list and relatively small, there’s not a terrible performance hit since it’s paged into memory. Not at all saying this to dismiss your criticism though; absolutely would be great to have better OOTB options. Just putting it out for anyone who wants a workaround :).
- SirFatty 11mo agoFor physical media, Discogs is the way to go...
- zdc1 11mo agoIf anyone is looking at options in this space, I used to use Media Monkey for organising and curating my large offline music collection. It did things like metadata and album art management, album-level volume levelling, and would even reorganise the file structure of your music to whatever pattern you set. I also loved that you could set up separate "libraries", so I could have metal and classical arranged by album, and EDM as a bunch of single tracks that are organised into playlists. Only downside is that it's Windows software.
- doright 11mo agoI like beets' functionality but don't as much like "babysitting" it for long sessions when I have a bunch of new music to import. Especially because crashes are frequent and sometimes make it lose all incremental progress. Lack of progress bar on large imports is painful also. It would be nice if a beets background worker could be kicked off when new music is detected to avoid the sequential nature of the commandline and see all the waiting tagging actions at once. This[0] is supposed to do that but it appears deprecated in favor of something else[1]. That being said, the "beets way" works pretty well past the import stage, so I haven't felt the need to move off it for local music. [0] https://github.com/sentriz/betanin https://github.com/sentriz/betanin [1] https://github.com/sentriz/wrtag https://github.com/sentriz/wrtag
- JKCalhoun 11mo ago(Only because I have an axe to grind) I really dislike "genre" and work hard to strip that metadata tag. It is so reductive. And flawed as well. Do we assign a "genre" to an artist? Album? Song? The band R.E.M.: "College Rock"? "New Wave"? "Alternative"? (Wow, don't even get me started on all the ways you can further slice up "alternative" into "shoe-gaze", "twee", etc. It's, ha ha, naval gazing for the music intelligentsia.) R.E.M.'s "Don't Go Back to Rockville"? "Country"? I think "live" and "soundtrack" might be the only two interesting "genres".
- dgfl 11mo agoA genre is a volume in song space. More seriously, there’s no reason you can’t assign more than one genre to a song, or say that “it’s a mix of A and B”. You can extend the concept to albums and artists just as easily. I’m not familiar with R.E.M., but on rateyourmusic.com they’re marked as alternative rock, jangle pop, pop rock, indie rock, neo-psychedelia, and folk rock. “Don’t go back to Rockville” is marked as Jangle pop, and the “Reckoning” album overall is mostly Jangle pop with some influences from post-punk and Paisley Underground. You may not agree with these categorizations, but it’s a crowd-sourced website so you can go vote for different genres. You may also disagree with the existence of all of these genres, some of which I’ve never heard of myself (but as I said, I haven’t listened much to R.E.M. in general), but my point is more that if you’re familiar with them then you kind of know what to expect from the song. I’d never heard “don’t go back to rockville”, but just from these genres you named to make your point, I already knew what it would approximately sound like. And indeed listening to it confirmed that.
- code_for_monkey 11mo agoGenres are fun to play with too. If something has breakdown and maybe some screams? Put 'core' at the end. Its all up to interpretation and it gives us some easy short hand to discuss music.
- doright 11mo agoRYM genres would be extremely useful to have as a beets autotag plugin and I've been waiting for years for their API to be opened up specifically for them.
- timcobb 11mo agoHow do you all handle FLAC/CUE releases? A problem I have is that I want to have processed/tagged tracks, but I also want to keep FLAC/CUEs. I end up have redundant and separate organized library and original data.
- parineum 11mo agoI, personally, split the flac. It sounds like you don't want to do that but though but it does remain lossless amd I prefer to see the tracks representing individually in the filesystem.
- intrikate 11mo agoI just split everything into tracks like they are on the album. Is there a tangible benefit to a single large FLAC with a CUE to tell the player where the songs are?
- timcobb 11mo agoThere are a few benefits in my opinion, mainly: - The CUE maps the audio in a "CD-native" way, like each track can have 1 or more indices, which enables things like pregaps. When you split FLACs into discrete tracks you need to figure out how to project that onto files, do you put the pregaps at the end of previous tracks? At the beginning of next tracks? In short, with a CUE you can emulate the CD experience more accurately. - If you are seeding a torrent, you need to keep the original data intact.
- terinjokes 11mo agoI've been thinking about this recently too, mostly to figure out how to preserve indexes in tracks of "Murmurs of Earth"[0]. I think the FLAC embedded cuesheets could be used for this. While intended for CD-ready cuesheets embedded into one big FLAC, there's no reason they couldn't be used in individual files, with index 00 for pregaps. I'm not sure it's well supported anywhere however. Maybe foobar2000? Edit: I pulled up the RFC[1] for FLAC, and it seems like this is a use case they had in mind for the embedded cuesheet: > A cuesheet metadata block can be used either [...] or to provide a mechanism to store locations of interest within a FLAC file. [0]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6057232 https://www.discogs.com/release/6057232 [1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html#name-cuesheet https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html#name-cuesheet
- henrebotha 11mo agoBeets crashes with a Musicbrainz connection error more than half the time, on my machine. How does anyone use it productively?
- Hamuko 11mo agoMusicBrainz is currently being hammered by AI scrapers. There's a pull request on the Beets GitHub that seems to address the crashing.
- henrebotha 11mo agoI couldn't find the PR in question. Do you have a link?
- dleslie 11mo agoWhat I really want is a plugin that starts an icecast server with a given song as a root, and continues to stream songs whose albums/artists are within a certain reference distance of the root on discogs/wikipedia/etc. So if I start on Guzzlemug I'll get some Blood Incantation, but maybe also some Pink Floyd.
- gcr 11mo agoAnything like this for movies/TV shows/videos? I'm familiar with tinymediamanager, for example, but I'd love something fast on the CLI...
- robinhood 11mo agoBeets is amazing. The fact that it exists is a blessing for those like us who maintain our own music library. I've been wanting to build my own Plex alternative for a while now. I've tried all the other tools out there, but Plex is definitely the least bad tool that let me enjoy my music without subscribing to Spotify and others. I've already spent hours trying to figure out all the things that are required to make this new system. And it's unbelievably complicated. From parsing metadata to converting music, to understanding how deep and complex tagging work for music (yeah, it doesn't sound like it at first, but it truly is infinitely complex), I'm overwhelmed by how hard it would be to build a tool that compete with a combination of beets/iTunes.
- CharlesW 11mo agoThere are a lot of alternatives for music servers in the world. Can I ask if you've explored Plex alternatives (Jellyfin, Emby, Lyrion, Navidrome, various Subsonic/OpenSubsonic-compatible servers, etc.), and if so, what you need that they don't do? I ask because I'm working on a new music app for iOS which has pluggable sources, and so my bias is that most of the issues preventing me from easily enjoying my music library are actually on the client side.
- theshrike79 11mo agoFrictionless use is the biggest one. I can install Plex, all my movies, tv-shows, anime and music is there. Then I can drop Plexamp on my phone, log in with my Plex account and all my music is right there and if I rate a song on my phone, it's updated on Plex and vice versa.
- CharlesW 11mo agoPlexamp is what I settled on too, before deciding that I was only going to be happy if I built something better. Plexamp is quite good as a standalone app, but as close to greatness as it is, it's a React Native app (better than a Flutter app, but still) that doesn't play well with the iOS ecosystem — no widgets, virtually no Siri/App Intents support, no Apple Music integration, etc. I also decided that it shouldn't matter where my music "lives", and so it supports any local, self-hosted, or cloud-based source. (These are working today: https://imgur.com/szrkeIJ https://imgur.com/szrkeIJ)
- bfors 11mo agoWow, I remember beets from about 10 years ago. I never got into meticulously organizing my music, but I'm glad to see it's still around. Also the site loaded absolutely ridiculously fast.
- clueless 11mo agoIs there a beets LLM version as well, where I can RAG-style search through my music collection?
- headelf 11mo agoDoes this have a bulk command to look at the metadata of files in a folder and use those to rename the files? Assume the current filenames are just random strings
- euroderf 11mo agoConsider a case where a DJ's entire show can be downloaded as a single MP3, AND there is a complete playlist for the show. Is there any software that can use this to break up the single mp3 into the numerous individual song tracks ? And insert metadata ? And perhaps also fingerprint each track to match it to a specific version of the song ?
- nighthawk454 11mo agoIf the playlist is something like a CUE file then yes, certainly. CUETools/XLD/foobar2000 can split by cue file. And Picard can do audio fingerprints to match tracks and get metadata for them.
- euroderf 11mo agoIn the case I describe there's no CUE files. There's a DJ writing the playlist as the show proceeds, and the typical entry is Artist and Song title. So it's enough information to do a search, but maybe not enough to identify the particular version, and then you have to find the boundary between tracks in the mp3. So this might be a task for A.I. - to automate it with sufficient precision.
- tremon 11mo agoDon't most DJ sets have elaborate cross-fades between tracks? It may not be possible to find a clean cut, and the best you can hope for is good judgement rather than precision.
- euroderf 11mo agoPoint taken! So give me an A.I. that knows when to begin/end a track and when to keep two or three tracks glued together cos the segue is sooo smooooth.....
- rkayg 11mo agothis is so cool. I am (slowly) working on a tool that uses an LLM to add tags to music based on vibes and it would be awesome to plug into this!
- ndrake 11mo agoAnyone have suggestions for automating CD rips into a Beets workflow?
- acrophiliac 11mo agoHere's what I did: $ pip install beets $ beet config -e $ beet import Music/BillEvans The database directory /home/user/.beets does not exist. Create it (Y/n)? y configuration error: import must be a collection, not NoneType I was momentarily flummoxed by the error message. I pretty quickly realized I had mistakenly commented out all the lines in the import section of the config file. But for a nontechnical person the error message might be a bit hard to interpret. Maybe consider a more beginner friendly message with hints on how to correct the problem?