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http://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.13/

I have an extensive collection to import into beets. I also did some things
wrong in the beginning which resulted in various errors. Here is my current
workflow.

Given:

- old collection in ``~/x/``
- new collection in ``~/music/``

Paths should be ``genre/artist/year - album/track - title``.

Here is the config::

    directory: ~/music

    asciify_paths: True
    plugins: chroma discogs duplicates info fromfilename
    format_item: $artist - $album - $track - $title

    import:
      copy: no
      move: no
      write: no

    paths:
      default: %lower{$genre}/$albumartist/%if{year,$year - }$album%aunique{}/$track - $title
      singleton: singles/%if{year,$year - }$album/$artist - $title
      comp: %lower{$genre}/0-various-artists/%if{year,$year - }$album%aunique{}/$track - $title

Note that I do not copy, move or write on import. This is essential.

I import per genre. Here is an example for importing funk::

    beet import ~/x/Funk
    # decide when prompted
    # use another terminal to "beet info {somefile}"
    # use browser to find weird stuff on musicbrains or discogs

    # do some manual tagging here
    # usually i disagree with the genres ;)

    beet move
    # to actually move the files from ~/x to ~/music

    beet fingerprint
    # i believe fingerprinting to be a great idea

    beet write
    # write library info to the individual files

Import, fix genre, and reorganize files::

    beet import foo
    beet ls -f '$format $genre $path' fooquery
    beet ls fooquery genre:wrong
    beet modify fooquery genre:wrong genre=right
    beet import --noautotag -L fooquery

Grep for stuff and remove it (easy :>)::

    beet ls -p fooquery | grep 'EXCLUDEME' | xargs --delimiter "\n" --replace printf "path:{}\0" | xargs -0 -L1 --replace beet remove -f '{}'