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NAME

       beet - music tagger and library organizer

SYNOPSIS

       beet [args...] command [args...]
       beet help command

COMMANDS

   import
          beet import [-CWAPRqst] [-l LOGPATH] DIR...
          beet import [options] -L QUERY

       Add music to your library, attempting to get correct tags for it from MusicBrainz.

       Point  the  command at a directory full of music. The directory can be a single album or a
       directory whose leaf subdirectories are  albums  (the  latter  case  is  true  of  typical
       Artist/Album  organizations  and  many  people's  "downloads"  folders). The music will be
       copied to a configurable directory structure (see below) and added to a  library  database
       (see below). The command is interactive and will try to get you to verify MusicBrainz tags
       that it thinks are suspect.  (This means  that  importing  a  large  amount  of  music  is
       therefore  very  tedious  right  now;  this  is  something  we  need  to work on. Read the
       autotagging guide if you need help.)

       • By default, the command copies files your the library directory and updates the ID3 tags
         on  your  music.  If  you'd  like to leave your music files untouched, try the -C (don't
         copy) and -W (don't write tags) options. You can also disable this behavior  by  default
         in the configuration file (below).

       • Also,  you can disable the autotagging behavior entirely using -A (don't autotag)---then
         your music will be imported with its existing metadata.

       • During a long tagging import, it can be useful to keep  track  of  albums  that  weren't
         tagged  successfully---either because they're not in the MusicBrainz database or because
         something's wrong with the files. Use the -l option to specify a filename to  log  every
         time you skip an album or import it "as-is" or an album gets skipped as a duplicate.

       • Relatedly, the -q (quiet) option can help with large imports by autotagging without ever
         bothering to ask for user input. Whenever the  normal  autotagger  mode  would  ask  for
         confirmation,  the  quiet  mode  pessimistically  skips  the  album. The quiet mode also
         disables the tagger's ability to resume interrupted imports.

       • Speaking of resuming interrupted imports, the tagger will prompt you if  it  seems  like
         the  last import of the directory was interrupted (by you or by a crash). If you want to
         skip this prompt, you can say "yes" automatically by providing -p or "no" using -P.  The
         resuming feature can be disabled by default using a configuration option (see below).

       • If  you  want to import only the new stuff from a directory, use the -i option to run an
         incremental import. With this flag, beets will keep track of  every  directory  it  ever
         imports  and  avoid  importing  them  again.   This  is useful if you have an "incoming"
         directory that you periodically add things to.  To get this to  work  correctly,  you'll
         need  to  use  an  incremental  import  every time you run an import on the directory in
         question---including the first time, when no subdirectories will be skipped. So consider
         enabling the incremental configuration option.

       • By  default,  beets will proceed without asking if it finds a very close metadata match.
         To disable this and have the importer ask you every time, use the -t (for timid) option.

       • The importer typically works in a whole-album-at-a-time mode. If  you  instead  want  to
         import individual, non-album tracks, use the singleton mode by supplying the -s option.

       • If  you  have  an  album  that's  split  across  several  directories under a common top
         directory, use the --flat option. This takes all the music  files  under  the  directory
         (recursively)  and  treats  them  as  a  single  large album instead of as one album per
         directory. This can help with your more stubborn multi-disc albums.

   list
          beet list [-apf] QUERY

       Queries the database for music.

       Want to search for "Gronlandic Edit" by of Montreal? Try beet list gronlandic.  Maybe  you
       want  to  see  everything  released  in 2009 with "vegetables" in the title? Try beet list
       year:2009 title:vegetables. (Read more in query.)

       You can use the -a switch to search for albums instead of individual items.  In this case,
       the  queries you use are restricted to album-level fields: for example, you can search for
       year:1969 but query parts for item-level fields like title:foo will be  ignored.  Remember
       that artist is an item-level field; albumartist is the corresponding album field.

       The  -p option makes beets print out filenames of matched items, which might be useful for
       piping into other Unix commands (such as xargs). Similarly, the -f option lets you specify
       a  specific  format  with which to print every album or track. This uses the same template
       syntax as beets' path formats. For example, the command beet ls -af '$album:  $tracktotal'
       beatles prints out the number of tracks on each Beatles album. In Unix shells, remember to
       enclose the template argument in single quotes to avoid environment variable expansion.

   remove
          beet remove [-ad] QUERY

       Remove music from your library.

       This command uses the same query syntax as the list command.  You'll be shown  a  list  of
       the  files  that  will  be  removed  and  asked to confirm.  By default, this just removes
       entries from the library database; it doesn't touch the files on disk. To actually  delete
       the files, use beet remove -d.

   modify
          beet modify [-MWay] QUERY FIELD=VALUE...

       Change the metadata for items or albums in the database.

       Supply  a  query matching the things you want to change and a series of field=value pairs.
       For example, beet modify genius of love artist="Tom Tom Club" will change the  artist  for
       the  track  "Genius  of  Love."   The  -a  switch operates on albums instead of individual
       tracks. Items will automatically be moved around when necessary if they're in your library
       directory,  but  you can disable that with -M. Tags will be written to the files according
       to the settings you have for imports, but these can be overridden with -w (write tags, the
       default)  and  -W  (don't  write  tags).   Finally,  this  command  politely asks for your
       permission before making any changes, but you can skip that prompt with the -y switch.

   move
          beet move [-ca] [-d DIR] QUERY

       Move or copy items in your library.

       This command, by default, acts as a library consolidator: items  matching  the  query  are
       renamed  into your library directory structure. By specifying a destination directory with
       -d manually, you can move items matching a query  anywhere  in  your  filesystem.  The  -c
       option  copies files instead of moving them. As with other commands, the -a option matches
       albums instead of items.

   update
          beet update [-aM] QUERY

       Update the library (and, optionally, move files) to reflect out-of-band  metadata  changes
       and file deletions.

       This will scan all the matched files and read their tags, populating the database with the
       new values. By default, files will be renamed according to  their  new  metadata;  disable
       this with -M.

       To perform a "dry run" of an update, just use the -p (for "pretend") flag.  This will show
       you all the proposed changes but won't actually change anything on disk.

       When an updated track is part of an album, the album-level fields of all tracks  from  the
       album  are also updated. (Specifically, the command copies album-level data from the first
       track on the album and applies it to  the  rest  of  the  tracks.)  This  means  that,  if
       album-level  fields  aren't  identical  within  an album, some changes shown by the update
       command may be overridden by data from other tracks on the same  album.  This  means  that
       running the update command multiple times may show the same changes being applied.

   stats
          beet stats [-e] [QUERY]

       Show  some statistics on your entire library (if you don't provide a query) or the matched
       items (if you do).

       The -e (--exact) option makes the calculation of total file size more accurate but slower.

   fields
          beet fields

       Show the item and album metadata  fields  available  for  use  in  query  and  pathformat.
       Includes any template fields provided by plugins.

GLOBAL FLAGS

       Beets  has  a  few  "global" flags that affect all commands. These must appear between the
       executable name (beet) and the command: for example, beet -v import ....

       • -l LIBPATH: specify the library database file to use.

       • -d DIRECTORY: specify the library root directory.

       • -v: verbose mode; prints out a deluge of debugging information.  Please  use  this  flag
         when reporting bugs.

SEE ALSO

       http://beets.readthedocs.org/

       beetsconfig(5)

AUTHOR

       Adrian Sampson

COPYRIGHT

       2012, Adrian Sampson