Beets Config

Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

If you don’t know already, beets is a command line python program meant to automatically sort music. If you do know already, how have you set up your config file? Here’s mine:

directory: /mnt/chawley/Music
library: /home/chawley/musiclibrary.blb
import:
# write metadata to music files
write: yes
# move imported files from source to the music directory
move: yes
copy: no
delete: no
# use auto-tagging where possible
# do not require confirmation on strong matches
autotag: yes
timid: no
resume: ask
incremental: no
none_rec_action: ask
log:
quiet: no # enable with command line option
quiet_fallback: skip
default_action: apply
singletons: no
languages: []
detail: no
flat: no
# use the release-date of the original (first) release of an album?
original_date: yes
# on multi-disk releases, assign track numbers for the whole album.
# If "per disk", make sure tracknames do not collide ("paths" setting).
per_disc_numbering: no
# files matching these patterns are deleted from source after import
clutter: ["Thumbs.DB", ".DS_Store", "*.m3u", ".pls", "*.jpg"]
# files/directories matching one of these patterns are ignored during import
ignore: [".*", "*~", "System Volume Information"]
# Paths ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Paths and filenames for music files
# relative to music directory
paths:
default: $albumartist - $year - $album/$albumartist - $track - $title
singleton: Non-Album/$artist - $title
comp: $album ($year)/$track - $artist - $title
# replace special characters in generated filenames
replace:
'[\\/]': _
'^\.': _
'[\x00-\x1f]': _
'[<>:"\?\*\|]': _
'\.$': _
'\s+$': ''
path_sep_replace: _
# filename for the album art
art_filename: cover # results in "cover.jpg"
max_filename_length: 0 # unlimited
# General --------------------------------------------------------------------
# use mutliple threads during import
threaded: yes
timeout: 5.0
verbose: no
# User Interface -------------------------------------------------------------
color: yes
list_format_item: %upper{$artist} - $album - $track. $title
list_format_album: %upper{$albumartist} - $album
time_format: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
terminal_encoding: utf8
ui:
terminal_width: 80
length_diff_thresh: 10.0
# Auto Tagger ----------------------------------------------------------------
match:
strong_rec_thresh: 0.1 # match 90% or better for auto import
medium_rec_thresh: 0.25
rec_gap_thresh: 0.25
max_rec:
missing_tracks: medium
unmatched_tracks: medium
distance_weights:
source: 2.0
artist: 3.0
album: 3.0
media: 1.0
mediums: 1.0
year: 1.0
country: 0.5
label: 0.5
catalognum: 0.5
albumdisambig: 0.5
album_id: 5.0
tracks: 2.0
missing_tracks: 0.9
unmatched_tracks: 0.6
track_title: 3.0
track_artist: 2.0
track_index: 1.0
track_length: 2.0
track_id: 5.0
preferred:
countries: []
media: []
original_year: no
ignored: []
track_length_grace: 10
track_length_max: 30

Save it in $HOME/.config/beets/config.yaml

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