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 impor

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