diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE similarity index 100% rename from LICENSE.txt rename to LICENSE diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f342dbe7c --- /dev/null +++ b/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +1.0b1 +----- +First public release. + diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c941ab8e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +beets +===== + +Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music +geeks. + +The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. +It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes. +It then provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music. + +Here's an example of beets' brainy tag corrector doing its thing: + + $ beet import ~/music/ladytron + Tagging: Ladytron - Witching Hour + (Distance: 0.016165) + * Last One Standing -> The Last One Standing + * Beauty -> Beauty*2 + * White Light Generation -> Whitelightgenerator + * All the Way -> All the Way... + +Because beets is designed as a library, you can easily write Python programs +that manipulate your music for you. Report tracks encoded at less than +192kbps? Done. Find albums you're missing from bands you like? Convert +everything to Title Case once and for all? Done and done. + +Beets also includes a music player that speaks the MPD protocol, so you can +play music in your beets library using a staggering variety of interfaces. + + +Read More +========= + +Learn more about beets at its Web site: http://beets.radbox.org/ + +Check out the Getting Started guide to learn about installing and using beets: +http://code.google.com/p/beets/wiki/GettingStarted + + +Authors +======= + +Beets is by Adrian Sampson . +