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I've been tempted to try tools like these throughout the years, but honestly I've come to learn that nothing is black and white about tagging. I usually use the

I've been tempted to try tools like these throughout the years, but honestly I've come to learn that nothing is black and white about tagging. I usually use the "Album Artist" field to organize music into logical collections that I want. If I took everything literally, I'd have to deal digging through "Various Artists" and other disagreements I have with established music databases.

dfc 13y ago
It is important to note that beets never forces you to use default format. If you want it to use your metadata you can tell beets to import it as is. More importantly there are two plugins that look perfect for you: (in order of effort) Rewrite Plugin: The rewrite plugin lets you easily substitute values in your templates and path formats. Specifically, it is intended to let you canonicalize names such as artists: for example, perhaps you want albums from The Jimi Hendrix Experience to be sorted into the same folder as solo Hendrix albums.[^1] Inline Plugin: The inline plugin lets you use Python to customize your path formats. Using it, you can define template fields in your beets configuration file and refer to them from your template strings in the paths: section of the configuration file.[^2] [^1]: https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/rewrite.html https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/rewrite.html [^2]: https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/inline.html https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/inline.html
- maxerickson 13y ago
  It's more important to note that you can tell it to not move files and to not edit the metadata stored in files. This makes it useful for playback and finding information without first having to trust it.
abruzzi 13y ago
Amen. When ripping all my CDs, I hand entered all my metadata. My biggest pet peeve is filling out the "composer" field correctly. If I sort by composer, I don't want to find Beethoven under "L".

dfc 13y ago

It is important to note that beets never forces you to use default format. If you want it to use your metadata you can tell beets to import it as is. More importantly there are two plugins that look perfect for you: (in order of effort) Rewrite Plugin: The rewrite plugin lets you easily substitute values in your templates and path formats. Specifically, it is intended to let you canonicalize names such as artists: for example, perhaps you want albums from The Jimi Hendrix Experience to be sorted into the same folder as solo Hendrix albums.[^1] Inline Plugin: The inline plugin lets you use Python to customize your path formats. Using it, you can define template fields in your beets configuration file and refer to them from your template strings in the paths: section of the configuration file.[^2] [^1]: https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/rewrite.html https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/rewrite.html [^2]: https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/inline.html https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.3/plugins/inline.html

maxerickson 13y ago
It's more important to note that you can tell it to not move files and to not edit the metadata stored in files. This makes it useful for playback and finding information without first having to trust it.

abruzzi 13y ago

Amen. When ripping all my CDs, I hand entered all my metadata. My biggest pet peeve is filling out the "composer" field correctly. If I sort by composer, I don't want to find Beethoven under "L".