Importing files from the band "A-ha" results in invisible files to 'beets' and 'ls' but not 'find'

[Bearcat Şándor]

Importing any songs from the band "a-ha" almost removes them from my drive. They can't be found with ls or beets but they can be found via find:

a directory listing of the a-ha directory only shows one album

moonwind@jaguarundi audio % ls a-ha

2004-the_singles__1984-2004

The directory is empty  to 'ls'

moonwind@jaguarundi audio % ls a-ha/2004-the_singles__1984-2004

artwork

However, 'find' sees all 3 albums that i have in there

audio % find ./ -name "*take_on_me*"

./a‐ha/1985-hunting_high_and_low/01-01-take_on_me.wv
./a‐ha/2004-the_singles__1984-2004_[5050467-6225-2-4]/01-01-take_on_me.wv
./a‐ha/2017-mtv_unplugged_-_summer_solstice/02-10-take_on_me_(mtv_unplugged).wv
 

beets doesn't see any even though all of them were imported by beets

moonwind@jaguarundi audio % beet ls artist:a-ha
moonwind@jaguarundi audio % beet ls -a albumartist:a-ha
moonwind@jaguarundi audio % beet ls artist:"a-ha"

moonwind@jaguarundi audio %

This drive is a regular usb drive with no special file systems (modern ntfs as it came in the box)

 

[Adrian Sampson]

Weird. I’m at an utter loss to explain why `find` can see your files but `ls` cannot. Could the drive be corrupted?

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[Bearcat Şándor]

That was my first thought too, however this has been my main audio/beets library drive for a year now and the band "a-ha" is the *only* one affected out of 1,651 artists.  It's certainly not the only file that i have with a hyphen in it, but it is the only file (band) that beets handles with a hyphen in the name.

[Michael Quaintance]

I'm pretty sure this is because MusicBrainz has the artist ID for a-ha as not a regular dash between the a and the ha.

According to MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/181b9a01-0446-4601-99be-b011ab615631?inc=aliases%2Bartist-credits%2Bdiscids%2Blabels%2Brecordings

000001f0: 6234 3461 6430 6431 3938 3937 223e 3c6e  b44ad0d19897"><n

00000200: 616d 653e 61e2 8090 6861 3c2f 6e61 6d65  ame>a...ha</name

00000210: 3e3c 736f 7274 2d6e 616d 653e 61e2 8090  ><sort-name>a...

00000220: 6861 3c2f 736f 7274 2d6e 616d 653e 3c61  ha</sort-name><a

"a-ha" is 0x61e2 8090 6861

So "find" handles this perfectly because you are not specifying the offending dash, but "ls" has a little more trouble, because you are and what you are supplying is not the same.

Similarly, "beets" is not matching what I guess to be an em-dash either.

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[Adrian Sampson]

A-ha! That’s very wise, Michael.

Adrian

[Michael MacLeod]

The %asciify{text} path template function and asciify_paths global option are useful for these situations.

http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.6/reference/pathformat.html?highlight=asciify#template-functions
http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.4.6/reference/config.html?highlight=asciify_paths#asciify-paths

[Bearcat Şándor]

Is that going to mess up file names that are in non-english languages?

[Adrian Sampson]

Reading the docs carefully may be helpful here: it will replace non-ASCII characters with their ASCII equivalents.

Adrian

> On May 11, 2018, at 7:04 AM, Bearcat Şándor <bearca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is that going to mess up file names that are in non-english languages?
>

[Bearcat M. Şándor]

I've read it and the example given is for latin characters. What does it do with a path such as /home/hometheater/audio/菅野よう子/2005-攻殻機動隊_stand_alone_complex_o.s.t._3/01-02-トルキア.wv? I'm assuming that it leaves it alone?

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[Adrian Sampson]

Aha! No; it replaces characters with transliterations. For example, “ルキア” becomes “rukia”.

[Bearcat M. Şándor]

Are you kidding? This thing actually romanizes the text? That's awesome! Thank you.

[Bearcat M. Şándor]

So, i fixed this by leaving my 'replace' config option as-is and adding asciifypaths into my config. It fixed the issue nicely. I ended up with an 'a-ha' directory and an 'a[long hyphen]ha' directory. I moved the files out of the long hyphen directory into the respective directories of 'ah-ha' and then did a `beets update` on those files.  

Worked like a charm! Thank you!