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Related: https://discourse.beets.io/t/plugin-idea-expose-also-performs-as-for-album-artist-field/1541 |
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Thoroughly concur with this suggestion - very desirable feature. (I.e. as per Picard's 'use standardizes artist's names' option). Practical cases - I want e.g. all Prince under Prince (both in my library and on disk), not as: Prince ..as I am currently getting. |
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Yeah I can see this is very complicated in practice. I think for me, managing these manually through And am also seeing beets do what seems to be a spurious disambiguation in this case, as these re-written albums have e.g. So it's sort of working with beets and Honestly in the end, for this finite number of things, it might just be better if I move these special editions to my 'non Musicbrainz' area for troublesome things and simply manually so these ones with mp3tag. I might just have to admit that any massive sorting project comes with some compromises... |
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@bossanova808 how does your Have you tried using the plugins:
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item_fields:
has_lyrics: bool(lyrics)
label_or_albumartist: |
aartist = (albumartist or artist).split(", ")[0]
if not label or label.lower() in {"not on label", aartist.lower()}:
return f"self_{aartist}"
return label or albumartist or artist
singleton_track_artist: '"" if label.lower() == artist.lower() else f"{artist}_"'
track_artist: '"" if label.lower() == artist.lower() or albumartist == artist else f"{artist}_"'
album_name: |
return "_".join((a for a in [
catalognum if catalognum != album else "",
(albumartist if albumartist not in {label, "Various Artists"} else ""),
album
] if a.strip()))
track_identification: |
if (track_alt := globals().get("track_alt")) and track_alt[0].isalpha():
idx = track_alt
elif track:
idx = str(track).zfill(2)
else:
return ""
if disctotal > 1:
idx = f"{disc}_{idx}"
return f"{idx}_"
withdrawn: albumstatus == "Withdrawn"
paths:
albumtype:broadcast: |
sets/
%lower{
%if{
$album,
$album/$track_identification$track_artist$title,
$track_identification$track_artist$title
}
}
singleton: |
%lower{
$label_or_albumartist/
%if{$withdrawn,_withdrawn/}
%if{$catalognum,${catalognum}_}
$singleton_track_artist$title
}
comp: |
%lower{
$label_or_albumartist/
%if{$withdrawn,_withdrawn/}
$album_name-%aunique{}/
$track_identification${artist}_$title
}
default: |
%lower{
$label_or_albumartist/
%if{$withdrawn,_withdrawn/}
$album_name-%aunique{}/
$track_identification${track_artist}$title
} |
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I have not ventured towards
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This looks very neat! If I was to generalize this using |
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Thanks, it is working pretty well - I think a generalised split on While I have you, what I read around here suggests that the metadata should also be updated by Looking at the history it seems the Can you think of any resilient way to achieve this sort of thing? |
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On Musicbrainz and Discogs (and possibly others) there is a lot of flexibility in how an artists name can be credited on a specific work. The name can be capitalized differently, use an alias or multiple artists can use weird and non-standard joining characters between their names.
This can result in either a single artist appearing multiple times in a library under different names or multiple artists (or multiple spellings of an artists name) being interpreted as a single artist.
I'm currently dealing with this by changing the artist name manually after importing in cases like this. It would be great however if there was the option for a metadata source to look up an artists main name and use that one instead.
Since the aliases and different spellings of an artists name still use the same ID and link to the same entry on Musicbrainz and Discogs I don't imagine this would be too difficult to implement.
If there already is such a feature/plugin or a way to achieve similar results I would appreciate if someone could tell me how.
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