Installation windows 10

[R P]

I'm really surprised there isn't much information on installing Beets on windows.  Or maybe I'm just not able to follow the instructions.... Either way I'm hoping for some help.  I have windows 10, python 2 and python 3.   I successfully installed beets using pip.  typing "beet" into command shows me the different beet command options so I'm assuming it installed correctly.  typing "beet config -p" shows me the path of config.yaml file, which is there and I never had to create it.  Now here comes my problems.  Typing "beet config -e" gives me an error saying, "error: Could not edit configuration: [Errno 2] No such file or directory".  How can I fix this problem and why is it occurring? I guess I can just open the config.yaml file to edit it? And now how do i proceed with the configurations?  so far my config file looks like this(please see attachment). And what path should I be using for the directory in config.yaml file? Is this path the location of my music that I plan to import? What if i have multiple locations for my music? Thanks in advance everyone.

[Adrian Sampson]

> On Oct 13, 2018, at 3:53 PM, R P <nevad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I guess I can just open the config.yaml file to edit it?

Yes, exactly.

> And what path should I be using for the directory in config.yaml file? Is this path the location of my music that I plan to import?

No, that’s where you want your music to live eventually. You supply the “input” path on the command line.

[R P]

ok sounds good.  Next, as far as the library line, i read in a much earlier post "Help a noob config on windows" that it is ok to leave this line blank and it will set up a default path.  Does that still hold true today?  Now i guess ill proceed to set up customized configurations the way that I would personally like so ill get started on that today... And lastly as far as adding a context menu item,  for some reason I cant seem to download the reg file, so will it be ok to copy and paste the code to a text file and rename it "beets.reg"?  Thank you much.  I know when i get this up and running its going to be incredible. 

[Adrian Sampson]

On Oct 14, 2018, at 2:07 PM, R P <nevad...@gmail.com> wrote:

ok sounds good.  Next, as far as the library line, i read in a much earlier post "Help a noob config on windows" that it is ok to leave this line blank and it will set up a default path.  Does that still hold true today?  Now i guess ill proceed to set up customized configurations the way that I would personally like so ill get started on that today... And lastly as far as adding a context menu item,  for some reason I cant seem to download the reg file, so will it be ok to copy and paste the code to a text file and rename it "beets.reg"?  Thank you much.  I know when i get this up and running its going to be incredible.  

Probably! All these things are worth trying. :) Please get back in touch if you try something a few times and can’t make it work.

[R P]

Hello, everything has worked out fine so far.  Adding "import" to context menu worked out well.  I also have my configs set up which I would like you to take a look at and get your feedback as far as other things I should add, remove, etc. I know this is all personalization, but I would like to make sure I have the basics down.  Please see below.

1) any additional configurations you would add(remove), for a beginner ?

2) Could you please give me a bit of info regarding the plugin path? what are you putting in that plug in folder? I thought plugins were installed from the command prompt?

3) should i use brackets or curly braces, for ex in "languages" and "set_fields"?

4) I thought album art was gathered without having the plugin "fetch_art"? if it is collected without having the plugin, then what is the purpose for the plugin?

5) in my my editor(notepad++) most of the entries are in blue, and others arent? For ex, quiet_fallback: is in a blue font, but "skip" is in a black font. Is the config written correctly? Do the colors signal errors in the code?

Thanks much brother.

directory: ~/C:\Users\Rashad Powell\Music
library: ~/data/musiclibrary.db

import:
  move: no
  write: yes
  copy: yes
  link: no
  hardlink: no
  resume: yes
  incremental: no
  incremental_skip_later: no
  from_scratch: no
  quiet_fallback: skip
  none_rec_action: ask
  timid: no
  log: no
  default_action: apply
  languages: []
  detail: no
  group_albums: no
  autotag: yes
  duplicate_action: ask
  bell: no
  set_fields: {}

ignore_hidden: yes
 
replace:
  '[\\/]': _
  '^\.': _
  '[\x00-\x1f]': _
  '[<>:"\?\*\|]': _
  '\.$': _
  '\s+$': ''
  '^\s+': ''
  '^-': _
 
asciify_paths: no
 
art_filename: albumart

threaded: yes

format_item: $artist - $album - $title

format_item: $albumartist - $album

sort_item: artist+ disc+ track+

sort_album: albumartist+ album+

sort_case_insensitive: yes

original_date: no

artist_credit: yes

per_disc_numbering: yes

clutter: ["Thumbs.DB", ".DS_Store"]

id3v23: yes


plugins: []
pluginpath: ~/beets/myplugins

ui:
  color: yes
  colors:
    text_success: green
    text_warning: yellow
    text_error: red
    text_highlight: red
    text_highlight_minor: lightgray
    action_default: turquoise
    action: blue
   
paths:
  default: $albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$disc-$track $title
  singleton: Non-Album/$artist/$title
  comp: Compilations/$album%aunique{}/$track $title
  albumtype:soundtrack: Soundtracks/$album/$track $title
 
 

[Adrian Sampson]

> On Oct 19, 2018, at 3:32 PM, R P <nevad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1) any additional configurations you would add(remove), for a beginner ?

I always recommend starting with nothing and adding configuration options only as you need them.

> 2) Could you please give me a bit of info regarding the plugin path? what are you putting in that plug in folder? I thought plugins were installed from the command prompt?

There’s no need to use it unless you’re installing plugins in a weird, nonstandard way.

> 3) should i use brackets or curly braces, for ex in "languages" and "set_fields”?

Use YAML syntax. It depends on the type.

> 4) I thought album art was gathered without having the plugin "fetch_art"? if it is collected without having the plugin, then what is the purpose for the plugin?

You need the fetchart plugin.

> 5) in my my editor(notepad++) most of the entries are in blue, and others arent? For ex, quiet_fallback: is in a blue font, but "skip" is in a black font. Is the config written correctly? Do the colors signal errors in the code?

Sorry; I don’t know how to use Notepad++. But keys and values being colored differently sounds like a normal thing for a syntax-highlighting editor to do.

[Enrico]

Hi Adrian, your fast, helpful replies never cease to amaze me. I run beets almost 24/7 churning though a massive backlog of old music so am getting to know the app reasonably well now.

One point in your last reply:

> 2) Could you please give me a bit of info regarding the plugin path? what are you putting in that plug in folder? I thought plugins were installed from the command prompt? 

> There’s no need to use it unless you’re installing plugins in a weird, nonstandard way.

I'm running the linuxserver|beets container which has a number of pre-installed plugins. If I want to add another plugin not included in the container, is this where the plugin path may come in handy? Do you have some examples of how to add a plugin using the plugin path?

[Adrian Sampson]

It depends on the plugin, but if you install it with pip, you shouldn’t need to change the plugin path. You only need that to use non-installed plugins.

A

Adrian

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[R P]

Ok so i started from the most basic setup and I just did a test run.  Again I am running windows 10.  I opened command prompt and typed

"beet import C:\Users\Rashad Parker\Music\Jadakiss"

I get an error message "error: no such file or directory: Parker\Music\Jadakiss".  I know why because there is the space between my first and last name and Im nnot sure how to fix this because I cant change the name i registered when setting up windows.

 

[Adrian Sampson]

Sorry if this sounds flippant, but this is a general question about the Windows command prompt. :)

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+command+prompt+escape+spaces

[R P]

lol, no your fine.  Your more than extremely helpful.  I just figured it out :-)

[R P]

OK I just also want you to know that everything is working really well so far.  I did a test run and it works great.  I want you to know, and others who made read this post that the information within this thread was extremely helpful.  Thank you much brother.