multiple formats in same directory

[Mayuresh Rajwadkar]

hi

I found beets, and it seems to be the very program I am looking for to archiving and  my music collection.

I have one small question though, I usually store the music in 2 formats typically I rip my CD's to .flac and then I convert them using ffmpeg to .m4a
which I copy to my ipod. The "archival" copy in my media server hence contains directories with one song in 2 formats, viz .flac and .m4a

If I try to import a directory to beets which has only one type of files it just works fine...
but if I import a directory which has both types, then it does not match the tracks...

The I tried to split the directories in 2 one with .flac and another with .m4a
I can import each separately just fine.. The second one I import prompts for "keep both" which I say yes...
the tagging works fine... and I can keep both the files..
The other gotcha in this flow is it fetches the album art twice and keeps two files art.jpg and art-1.jpg... !!

Is there any way I can config the tool so that it can import both .flac and .m4a in one shot and not have it mixup the tagging (as it seems to be
doing by default)

MR

[Adrian Sampson]

There is no current explicit support for keeping track of two copies (in different formats) of the same music. Some thoughts on how this might work are being written on the issue tracker here:

https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/221

One technique you can use now is to alter the "ignore" setting (see the config docs) to skip over one format or the other. You could ignore FLACs, import AACs, then un-ignore FLACs and ignore AACs instead, and then import the AACs. Seems crazy, but it could work!

You might also be interested in the "convert" plugin, which helps make those lossy transcodes in the first place.

Adrian

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[Mayuresh Rajwadkar]

hi

I have sort of simplified (not solved) this
I have defined 2 aliases

alias beet-flac='BEETSDIR=~/beets/config/flac beet '
alias beet-m4a='BEETSDIR=~/beets/config/m4a beet '

each of those directories has a different config file, with a different  ignore for .flac and .m4a
and specified a diffrent library each for -m4a and -flac, but the storage directory is the same.

that way I can run the import command twice and my data gets tagged and arranged in the directory: as I want it to...
albeit at the cost of having 2 library db's

MR

[Mayuresh Rajwadkar]

hi

Is there any option to "overwrite" album art instead of creating a new file ?

MR

[Mayuresh Rajwadkar]

Also...

is there a way to include another sub-config in an existing config ?

MR

[Adrian Sampson]

No; neither of these is currently possible. If you'd like to see either of these features, please write them up in more detail on the issue tracker.

Adrian