Album + Compilation

[Benjamin Schlageter]

Hey there

just found beets and now I'm reorganizing every song I have, but now I encoutered a smal problem with this album: http://musicbrainz.org/release/9350ee6b-d7f7-4fc4-8465-bdc32add0764
As you can see, it's an album and compilation, my config atm is:

paths:
    default: $albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track $title
    singleton: $artist/Singles/$title
    comp: $album%aunique{}/$track $artist - $title

So for this album, it should take the comp path, but as it's a "normal" album the default path will be choosen. Now how can I tell beets to take the comp path for this album?

Thanks
Benj

[Benjamin Schlageter]

Well found it out by myself, just did this path configs:

paths:
    default: %asciify{$albumartist}/%asciify{$album%aunique{}}/$track - %asciify{$title}
    singleton: %asciify{$artist}/Singles/%asciify{$title}
    comp: %asciify{$albumartist}/%asciify{$album%aunique{}}/$track %asciify{$artist} - %asciify{$title}
    albumtype:compilation: %asciify{$albumartist}/%asciify{$album%aunique{}}/$track %asciify{$artist} - %asciify{$title}

and yeah, did also asciifying as I don't want special characters on my linux filesystem. :)

[Adrian Sampson]

Cool -- looks like you've discovered the difference between the "comp" flag (indicates a Various Artists release) and the "compilation" album type (as defined by MusicBrainz).

Good sleuthing!

Adrian

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[Benjamin Schlageter]

True, but sadly some "normal" albums are defined as compilation in MusikBrainz... but this isn't really a problem. :-)
It's a great syntax, after you discovered how!

/Benj