From bbd0b220058c623e6ad10e4cdc1e44d6a8f69ad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: abigaildelarosa Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:38:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] change modify paragraph --- docs/reference/cli.rst | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/cli.rst b/docs/reference/cli.rst index 59e2eeb68..7f70b99a3 100644 --- a/docs/reference/cli.rst +++ b/docs/reference/cli.rst @@ -238,12 +238,7 @@ artist="Tom Tom Club"`` will change the artist for the track "Genius of Love." To remove fields (which is only possible for flexible attributes), follow a field name with an exclamation point: ``field!``. -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). +The ``-a`` switch operates on albums instead of individual tracks. This is relevant if you are working with any kind of album field in your paths format :doc:`configuration ` in case that you need to change any album field such as year, album, albumartist etc, do not forget to add the command ``-a`` in the query. Otherwise you will be changing the track fields. Keep in mind that the new value will be used to update the path in the library and on the filesystem. 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). When you run the ``modify`` command, it prints a list of all affected items in the library and asks for your permission before making any