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beets: donate

http://beets.io/donate.html

Thanks for considering donating to the beets project. I truly appreciate your support. These are some organizations doing work that is even more important than music organization software. They need support more than I do. You can send Bitcoin donations to 1444ZujQGp3ciNbDwyuoaxjWNrz5suuCYo. Or you might prefer to donate using Coinbase. Just hit the Donate button to head to PayPal’s site. Make a micro-donation by hitting the Flattr button. Then read the Getting Started. Need help with beets?

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beets: we’re pretty happy with SQLite & not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS

http://beets.io/blog/sqlite-performance.html

The beets blog: we’re pretty happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS. Every once in a while, someone suggests that beets should use a “real database.” I think this means storing music metadata in PostgreSQL. As an alternative to our current SQLite. Database. The idea is that a more complicated DBMS should be faster, especially for huge music libraries. And import performance is dominated by I/O to the network and to music files. This mostly-read workload is exactly what SQLite...

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beets: flexible attributes, in which schemaless and schemaful coexist peacefully

http://beets.io/blog/flexattr.html

The beets blog: flexible attributes, in which schemaless and schemaful coexist peacefully. Beets has been conceptually built around an object–field data model. Your library is made up of. Objects, which represent audio files, and each item has a bunch of. Corresponding to tags on those files: “artist,” “title,” and “year,” for example. Over the years, beets has grown to support a long list of fields. The next version of beets, 1.3, overhauls the internals to support. Any field name at all. Then, later, i...

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beets: blog

http://beets.io/blog

This is the weblog for beets. An open-source music management system by Adrian Sampson. It consists of announcements about the project, guides to doing fancy stuff with beets, and technical articles about Python and music-related development. Subscribe to the feed. You should also follow @b33ts. On Twitter, where smaller project updates are posted more frequently. June 19, 2016: we’re pretty happy with SQLite and not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS. January 4, 2013: your musical year in review.

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Getting Started — beets 1.4.3 documentation

http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.3/guides/main.html

Installing on macOS 10.11 and Higher. This guide will help you begin using it to make your music collection better. You will need Python. Beets works on Python 2.7. And Python 3.4 or later. V107 (Lion) and later include Python 2.7 out of the box. You can opt for Python 3 by installing it via Homebrew. On Debian or Ubuntu. Depending on the version, beets is available as an official package ( Debian details. Beets is in [community]. There’s also a bleeding-edge dev package. Beets is in Portage as. SIP) tha...

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beets: our solution for the hell that is filename encoding, such as it is

http://beets.io/blog/paths.html

The beets blog: our solution for the hell that is filename encoding, such as it is. By far, the worst part of working on beets is dealing with filenames. And since our job is to keep track of your files in the database, we have to deal with them all the time. This post describes the filename problems we discovered in the project’s early days, how we address them now, and some alternatives for the future. What is a Path? What would you say a path is? In Python terms, what should the type of the argument to.

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Using the Auto-Tagger — beets 1.4.3 documentation

http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.3/guides/tagger.html

An Apology and a Brief Interlude. Album Art, Lyrics, Genres and Such. I Hope That Makes Sense. Beets’ automatic metadata correcter is sophisticated but complicated and cryptic. This is a guide to help you through its myriad inputs and options. An Apology and a Brief Interlude. I would like to sincerely apologize that the autotagger in beets is so fussy. It asks you a. Back to the guide. Beets’ tagger is invoked using the. But any directory with music files in it is interpreted as a separate album. Second...

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FAQ — beets 1.4.3 documentation

http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.3/faq.html

Rename my files according to a new path format configuration? Find all the albums I imported “as-is”? Create “Disc N” directories for multi-disc albums? Import a multi-disc album? Enter a MusicBrainz ID? Upgrade to the latest version of beets? Run the latest source version of beets? Report a bug in beets? Find the configuration file (config.yaml)? Avoid using special characters in my filenames? Point beets at a new music directory? Complain that it can’t find a match? Appear to be missing some plugins?