From 1e207395b34f5833492765b642938438f8e9c3c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Scholtes <thomas-scholtes@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:53:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Formatted mapping uses field type to determine default

---
 beets/dbcore/db.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/beets/dbcore/db.py b/beets/dbcore/db.py
index 756448720..050ddbd81 100644
--- a/beets/dbcore/db.py
+++ b/beets/dbcore/db.py
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ class FormattedMapping(collections.Mapping):
     def __len__(self):
         return len(self.model_keys)
 
-    def get(self, key, default=u''):
+    def get(self, key, default=None):
+        if default is None:
+            default = self.model._type(key).format(None)
         return super(FormattedMapping, self).get(key, default)
 
     def _get_formatted(self, model, key):