diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst index c0fd9ab8d..2921402b3 100644 --- a/docs/changelog.rst +++ b/docs/changelog.rst @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ Changelog fingerprinting service. This replaces the old ``lastid`` plugin, which used Last.fm fingerprinting and is now deprecated. Fingerprinting with this library should be faster and more reliable. +* The importer can now perform **partial matches**. This means that, if you're + missing a few tracks from an album, beets can still tag the remaining tracks + as a single album. (Thanks to `Simon Chopin`_.) * The new :doc:`/plugins/lastgenre` automatically assigns genres to imported albums and items based on Last.fm tags and an internal whitelist. (Thanks to `KraYmer`_.) @@ -46,6 +49,7 @@ Changelog .. _python-musicbrainz-ngs: https://github.com/alastair/python-musicbrainz-ngs .. _acoustid: http://acoustid.org/ .. _Peter Brunner: https://github.com/Lugoues +.. _Simon Chopin: https://github.com/laarmen 1.0b10 (September 22, 2011) --------------------------- diff --git a/docs/guides/tagger.rst b/docs/guides/tagger.rst index 5d8f414e2..10a3a413a 100644 --- a/docs/guides/tagger.rst +++ b/docs/guides/tagger.rst @@ -218,15 +218,14 @@ If you're having trouble tagging a particular album with beets, you might want t site to make sure it's cataloged there. If not, anyone can edit MusicBrainz---so consider adding the data yourself. -* Beets won't show you possibilities from MusicBrainz with a mismatched number - of tracks. That is, if your album is missing tracks or has additional tracks - beyond what the MB database reflects, then you'll never see a match for that - album. (This is because beets wouldn't know how to apply metadata to your - files in this case.) `Issue #33`_ proposes adding a system that automatically - detects and reports this situation. +* Beets won't show you possibilities from MusicBrainz that have *fewer* tracks + than the current album. In other words, if you have extra tracks that aren't + included on the release, that candidate won't be displayed. (The tagger + should, on the other hand, show you candidates that have *more* tracks than + you do in the case that you're missing some of the album's songs. Beets will + warn you when any candidate is a partial match.) .. _the MusicBrainz database: http://musicbrainz.org/ -.. _Issue #33: http://code.google.com/p/beets/issues/detail?id=33 If neither of these situations apply and you're still having trouble tagging something, please `file a bug report`_. diff --git a/docs/plugins/lastgenre.rst b/docs/plugins/lastgenre.rst index 9699701cc..598ea630a 100644 --- a/docs/plugins/lastgenre.rst +++ b/docs/plugins/lastgenre.rst @@ -55,3 +55,6 @@ pyyaml``). Then set the ``canonical`` configuration value:: Leaving this value blank will use a built-in canonicalization tree. You can also set it to a path, just like the ``whitelist`` config value, to use your own tree. + +.. _YAML: http://www.yaml.org/ +.. _pyyaml: http://pyyaml.org/