singleton imports can take single-file arguments (#184)

NEWS

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
   respected in BPD's browsing hierarchy. This may come at a performance
   cost, however. The virtual filesystem used by BPD is available for
   reuse by plugins (e.g., the FUSE plugin).
+* Singleton imports ("beet import -s") can now take individual files as
+  arguments as well as directories.
 * Fix crash when autotagging files with no metadata.
 * Fix a rare deadlock when finishing the import pipeline.
 

beets/importer.py

@@ -312,7 +312,8 @@ class ImportTask(object):
 
 def read_tasks(config):
     """A generator yielding all the albums (as ImportTask objects) found
-    in the user-specified list of paths.
+    in the user-specified list of paths. In the case of a singleton
+    import, yields single-item tasks instead.
     """
     # Look for saved progress.
     progress = config.resume is not False
@@ -336,7 +337,13 @@ def read_tasks(config):
                     progress_set(path, None)
     
     for toppath in config.paths:
-        # Produce each path.
+        # Check whether the path is to a file.
+        if config.singletons and not os.path.isdir(syspath(toppath)):
+            item = library.Item.from_path(toppath)
+            yield ImportTask.item_task(item)
+            continue
+        
+        # Produce paths under this directory.
         if progress:
             resume_dir = resume_dirs.get(toppath)
         for path, items in autotag.albums_in_dir(toppath):

beets/ui/commands.py

@@ -417,8 +417,10 @@ def import_files(lib, paths, copy, write, autot, logpath, art, threaded,
     """
     # Check the user-specified directories.
     for path in paths:
-        if not os.path.isdir(syspath(path)):
+        if not singletons and not os.path.isdir(syspath(path)):
             raise ui.UserError('not a directory: ' + path)
+        elif singletons and not os.path.exists(syspath(path)):
+            raise ui.UserError('no such file: ' + path)
 
     # Check parameter consistency.
     if quiet and timid: