Update music paths

[Benjamin Schlageter]

Hi there

Next question, didn't discovered the problem yet, I'm playing around with beets and the modify/update possibilies. What I did here:

1) Imported the Album "Electro Glide in Blue" from "Apollo 440"
Savepath at the moment: /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/[...]

2) Modified the Artist to "Apollo 550"
cli I used: beet mod 'apollo 440' artist='Apollo 550'
---
Modifying 12 items.
Apollo 440 - Electro Glide in Blue - Stealth Overture
  artist: Apollo 440 -> Apollo 550
Apollo 440 - Electro Glide in Blue - Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub
  artist: Apollo 440 -> Apollo 550
[...]
---

Worked:
beet ls 'Apollo 550'
Apollo 550 - Electro Glide in Blue - Stealth Overture
Apollo 550 - Electro Glide in Blue - Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub

But at the moment, the save path is the old one:
beet ls -p 'Apollo 550'
/var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/01 - Stealth Overture.mp3
/var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/02 - Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub.mp3

What I understand, with 'update' beets can also reorganize the files on the filesystem - right? So I tried: beet update -p 'artist:apollo' and nothing happend, here also the verbose output:

beet -v update -p 'artist:apollo'
data directory: /root/.config/beets
library database: /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/beetslibrary.blb
library directory: /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik
Getting items with SQL: SELECT * FROM items WHERE ((artist like ? escape '\')) ORDER BY (CASE artist_sort WHEN NULL THEN artist WHEN "" THEN artist ELSE artist_sort END), album, disc, track
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/01 - Stealth Overture.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/02 - Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/03 - Altamont Super-Highway Revisited.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/04 - Electro Glide in Blue.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/05 - Vanishing Point.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/06 - Tears of the Gods.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/07 - Carrera Rapida.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/08 - Krupa.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/09 - White Man's Throat.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/10 - Pain in Any Language.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/11 - Stealth Mass in F#m.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
skipping /var/autofs/nas-qnap02-musik/Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue/12 - Raw Power.mp3 because mtime is up to date (1362588622)
Sending event: cli_exit

Maybe I understand something wrong?

Thanks for helping,
Benj

[Adrian Sampson]

You want "beet move", not "beet update". The former changes paths; the latter reads metadata tags.

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[Benjamin Schlageter]

Also when I already imported it? I tried with 'beet move 'artist:apollo' - should this move all matches along my config file?
Beauce the savepath wasn't changed at all... maybe I forgot something?

[Adrian Sampson]

The move command renames all matching files according to the database and the path format settings.

There's also another problem: you've changed the artist field, but not the albumartist field. That would explain why you see the old artist in your paths after the modify.

Adrian

[Benjamin Schlageter]

Ew... true, this is my fault. So only the musicfiles are renamed, not the paths?
I updated also the albumartist, checked with 'beet ls 'albumartist:apollo 550'.