Auto selection of higher bitrate during duplicate detection

[Enrico]

Hey, while importing a large folder of format upgrades, is it possible to automate the selection of a higher bitrate? My R button is about to wear out...

eg: if new match is a higher bitrate, "remove old" if lower "skip"

I'm using the configuration below, although I'm not very well versed in the function of the duplicates plugin

duplicates:

    checksum: no

    tiebreak: { items: [bitrate] }

/downloads/John Zorn - Filmworks XVI Workingman's Death (2005) (12 items)

Tagging:

    John Zorn - Filmworks XVI: Workingman's Death

URL:

    https://musicbrainz.org/release/ed3fa7a5-ce03-4433-8c2d-e027f53b8d6a

(Similarity: 100.0%) (2005, US, Tzadik)

This album is already in the library!

Old: 12 items, MP3, 245kbps, 61:23, 109.0 MiB

New: 12 items, FLAC, 728kbps, 61:23, 330.9 MiB

[S]kip new, Keep both, Remove old, Merge all?

# Beets configuration --------------------------------------------------------

directory: /music

library: /config/musiclibrary.blb

import:

    write: yes

    move: yes

    copy: no

    delete: no

    autotag: yes

    timid: no

    resume: no

    incremental: no

    none_rec_action: ask

    log: /config/beet.log

    quiet: no  # enable with command line option

    quiet_fallback: skip

    #none_rec_action: asis

    default_action: apply

    singletons: no

    languages: [en]

    detail: no

    flat: no

    

# General --------------------------------------------------------------------

# use mutliple threads during import

threaded: yes

timeout: 5.0

verbose: no

# use the release-date of the original (first) release of an album?

original_date: no

# on multi-disk releases, assign track numbers for the whole album.

# If "per disk", make sure tracknames do not collide ("paths" setting).

per_disc_numbering: yes

# files matching these patterns are deleted from source after import

clutter: ["Thumbs.DB", ".DS_Store", "*.m3u", ".pls", "*.jpg", "*.m3u", "*.log", "*.cue"]

# files/directories matching one of these patterns are ignored during import

ignore: [".*", "*~", "System Volume Information"]

# Paths ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# Paths and filenames for music files

# relative to music directory

paths:

    default: $albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track - $title

    singleton: Non-Album/$artist - $title

    comp: Compilations/$album%aunique{}/$track - $title

    albumtype_soundtrack: Soundtracks/$album%aunique{}/$track $title

    

# replace special characters in generated filenames

replace:

    '[\\/]': _

    '^\.': _

    '[\x00-\x1f]': _

    '[<>:"\?\*\|]': _

    '\.$': _

    '\s+$': ''

path_sep_replace: _

# filename for the album art

art_filename: cover  # results in "cover.jpg"

max_filename_length: 0  # unlimited

# User Interface -------------------------------------------------------------

color: yes

list_format_item: %upper{$artist} - $album - $track. $title

list_format_album: %upper{$albumartist} - $album

time_format: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'

terminal_encoding: utf8

ui:

    terminal_width: 80

    length_diff_thresh: 10.0

# Auto Tagger ----------------------------------------------------------------

match:

    strong_rec_thresh: 0.17      # match 90% or better for auto import

    medium_rec_thresh: 0.25

    rec_gap_thresh: 0.25

    max_rec:

        missing_tracks: medium

        unmatched_tracks: medium

    distance_weights:

        source: 2.0

        artist: 3.0

        album: 3.0

        media: 1.0

        mediums: 1.0

        year: 1.0

        country: 0.5

        label: 0.5

        catalognum: 0.5

        albumdisambig: 0.5

        album_id: 5.0

        tracks: 2.0

        missing_tracks: 0.9

        unmatched_tracks: 0.6

        track_title: 3.0

        track_artist: 2.0

        track_index: 1.0

        track_length: 2.0

        track_id: 5.0

    preferred:

        countries: []

        media: []

        original_year: no

    ignored: []

    track_length_grace: 10

    track_length_max: 30

# Plugins --------------------------------------------------------------------

plugins: [

    fetchart,

    lastgenre,

    #chroma,

    scrub,

    discogs,

    duplicates,

    #web,

    #lyrics,

    #echonest_tempo,

    #acousticbrainz,

    embedart

    #mbsync,

    #mpdupdate,

    #mpdstats,

    #missing,

    #fromfilename

]

#pluginpath: []

# Plugins Config -------------------------------------------------------------

#lyrics:

    #auto: yes

    #fallback: ''

#echonest_tempo:

 #   auto: yes

#discogs:

    #source_weight: 0.0

    

lastgenre:

   # whitelist: ~/.config/beets/genres.txt

    #canoncical: ~/.config/beets/genres-tree.yaml

    #fallback: ''

    auto: yes

    source: album

fetchart:

    auto: yes

    #maxwidth: 600

    #cautious: no

    cover_names: cover folder back

embedart:

    auto: yes

    maxwidth: 800

replaygain:

    auto: yes

    overwrite: yes

    albumgain: yes

# required for mpdstats

#mpd:

    #host: localhost

    #port: 6600

    #password:  # none

    

#musicbrainz:

    #host: 192.168.1.200:5000

    #ratelimit: 100

#mpdstats:

  #  rating: False

    # two ratings are calculated:

    # "rolling" based on recent development

    # "stable" based on all-time development

    # rating mix 0.0 is all "rolling", 1.0 is all "stable"

 #   rating_mix: 0.75

#missing:

  #  format: $albumartist - $album - $track - $title

 #   count: no

#    total: no

duplicates:

    checksum: no  # expensive

    tiebreak: { items: [bitrate] }

[Adrian Sampson]

Hi! You might be interested in this old ticket thread:

https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/116

Adrian

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[Robbie Sands]

Thanks very much for the reply. After reading through trails of links for the last 20 mins I think I'm more confused than when I started. Would I be correct in concluding that it hasn't been done yet but people are interested?

[Adrian Sampson]

Yep! That’s the case with most tickets that are still open. :)