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I've backed out the FAQ entry, since the main docs seem like the right place
for this.
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@ -225,61 +225,6 @@ If you've already moved your music *outside* of beets, you have a few options:
- Resort to manually modifying the SQLite database (not recommended).
.. _modify-selected:
…modify a couple of songs without difficult query?
--------------------------------------------------
If you want to modify some items in your library but do not want to spend much time
on a query matching all but not more than those songs, you can create a simple query
and select the items afterwards.
Let's say you want to tag all your songs of the album "Conspiracy of One" with some
self-defined field but you do not like the intro. With
``beet modify -w mysongs=true Conspiracy of one`` will print::
Modifying 14 items.
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Intro
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Come Out Swinging
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Original Prankster
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Want You Bad
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Million Miles Away
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Dammit, I Changed Again
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Living \in Chaos
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Special Delivery
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - One Fine Day
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - All Along
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Denial, Revisited
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Vultures
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Conspiracy of One
mysongs: true
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - Huck It
mysongs: true
Really modify, move and write tags? (Yes/no/select)
If you hit ``s`` beet will ask you for each item in the list whether
you want to apply changes::
The Offspring - Conspiracy of One - All Along
mysongs: true
Really modify, move and write tags? (yes/no)
If you now say ``y`` to all items but for Intro you will modify all
songs in the list but Intro.
Why does beets…
===============

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@ -242,11 +242,16 @@ 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). Finally, this command politely prints a list of all
(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
changes. You can then select if you want to abort the change with n, confirm
with y or you can select items to apply the changes with s (see
:ref:`modify-selected`). But you can skip that prompt with the ``-y`` switch.
changes. You can then choose to abort the change (type `n`), confirm
(`y`), or interactively choose some of the items (`s`). In the latter case,
the command will prompt you for every matching item or album and invite you to
type `y` or `n`. This option lets you choose precisely which data to change
without spending too much time to carefully craft a query. To skip the prompts
entirely, use the ``-y`` option.
.. _move-cmd: