Setting the default preferred_media to null is more like previous versions.
This way, as digital becomes more popular, we aren't stuck with a default
configuration that prefers an outdated format.
Saves paranoid and interested users from having to either force all max
recommendations to none or constantly go back to candidate selection
from a recommendation to see if there is another slightly less similar
but more preferred (by the user) candidate.
The new Distance object knows how to perform various types of distance
calculations (expression, equality, number, priority, string).
It will keep track of each individual penalty that has been applied so
that we can utilise that information in the UI and when making decisions
about the recommendation level.
We now display the top 3 penalties (sorted by weight) on the release
list (and "..." if there are more than 3), and we display all penalties
on the album info line and track change line.
The implementation of the `max_rec` setting has been simplified by
removing duplicate validation and instead looking at the penalties that
have been applied to a distance. As a result, we can now configure a
maximum recommendation for any penalty that might be applied.
We have a few new checks when calculating album distance:
`match: preferred: countries` and `match: preferred: media` can each be
set to a list of countries and media in order of your preference. These
are empty by default. A value that matches the first item will have no
penalty, and a value that doesn't match any item will have an unweighted
penalty of 1.0.
If `match: preferred: original_year` is set to "yes", beets will apply
an unweighted penalty of 1.0 for each year of difference between the
release year and the original year.
We now configure individual weights for `mediums` (disctotal), `label`,
`catalognum`, `country` and `albumdisambig` instead of a single generic
`minor` weight. This gives more control, but more importantly separates
and names the applied penalties so that the UI can convey exactly which
fields have contributed to the overall distance penalty.
Likewise, `missing tracks` and `unmatched tracks` are penalised and
displayed in the UI separately, instead of a combined `partial` penalty.
Display non-MusicBrainz source in the disambiguation string, and
"source" in the list of penalties if a release is penalised for being
a non-MusicBrainz.
An earlier change (due to @pedros) added the ability for plugins to define
template fields that work with Albums as well as Items. This enables some
cool new use cases but required that every template field definition check the
type of its arguments. Instead, this iteration on the idea distinguishes
between fields meant for Items and those meant for Albums.
In addition to simplifying the implementation of these functions, this also
enables the creation of album fields with identical names to item fields.
(For example, a user contacted me recently about adding a $bitrate field for
albums, which would be the average bitrate of the items. They can do this now
using a plugin.)
I also changed the docs to stop using the decorator approach to registering
template fields. We're moving toward removing those.
That's 371cc72f2d09 in hg. This makes the patch slightly more general by
reusing our type conversion infrastructure. It also uses "bytes" as a synonym
for "str" that I find a little bit clearer.
I thought having "MusicBrainz" colored green was a little distracting since
it's the common case (and universal without the discogs plugin), so this just
makes it neutral-color in that case.
This is a refactor of the plugin developed by `imenem`.
- Pass `artist`, `album` and `va_likely` to `candidates()` so that
plugins don't have to work this out from `items` all over again.
- Pass `artist` and `title` to `item_candidates()`.
- Silence spurious `urllib3` info log lines.
- Use a proper "beets" user agent with `discogs_client`.
- Remove `abstract_search` plugin. It seems unnecessary. How many
music databases are there? How many will beets support? How much
common code might there be between them? We can add some abstraction
if or when more databases are supported.
- Derive more AlbumInfo and TrackInfo properties from discogs Release
objects, especially album ID so that beets doesn't just use the first
release and think all subsequent releases are duplicates.
- Add basic documentation, doc strings and code comments.
- Sanitise search query. Remove non-word characters and medium info that
might filter out good search results.
- Use artist `join` strings from discogs Release object when an album
or track has multiple artists.
- Don't rely on discogs track position, which is unreliable. But tracks
are in order, so we can recalculate medium and medium_index as long as
we can extract a consistent medium across tracks from the position.
- Add "various" as a known signal to indicate various artists.
- Prevent `chroma` plugin from returning a a huge track distance for any
track that is missing an ID (e.g. all discog tracks).
- `TrackInfo.index` should be the release index (calculated by beets),
not the medium index (derived from discogs track position).
- Add `AlbumInfo.data_source`. It's "Unknown" by default which is shown
in red when displaying a suggested or selected match. The built in
auto tagger sets it to "MusicBrainz" which is shown in green. Anything
else (e.g. "Discogs") is shown in yellow.
- Remove double spaces from album titles (bad data from Discogs).
I've removed the -p option. The command now always shows plugin-provided
template fields if any are available. We also avoid printing out blank lines
for plugins that don't provide fields.
- adds another traversal through all plugins' template_fields for each
'evaluate_template' call.
- requires the following idiom (or equivalent):
@Plugin.template_field(field')
def _tmpl_field(album):
"""Return stuff.
"""
if isinstance(album, Album):
return stuff
Reading the fetchart docs it was not clear to me that it would use _any_
image file found alongside your music files, even if the image file did
not have one of the five privileged names (cover, front, art, album,
folder). I humbly propose these edits to the docs in an attempt to make
it more clear that, by default, any local image file will be used.
I also corrected '"album," _for_ "folder"' to '"album," _or_ "folder"',
and from reading the code I'm pretty sure that remote_priority needs to
be true, not false, in order to prefer remote sources.
Add a 'fallback' option to facilitate working around the 100 queries/day google
limit by marking files as 'visited' so they are not considered for lyrics search
on the next beet run.
I've put my own google_engine_ID as default value in the code but could be
reconsidered, this engine contains databases known to be scrappable by the
plugin algorithm though.
The initial idea for this refactor was motivated by the need to make
PluginQuery.match() have the same method signature as the match() methods on
other queries. That is, it needed to take an *item*, not the pattern and
value. (The pattern is supplied when the query is constructed.) So it made
sense to move the value-to-pattern code to a class method.
But then I realized that all the other FieldQuery subclasses needed to do
essentially the same thing. So I eliminated PluginQuery altogether and
refactored FieldQuery to subsume its functionality. I then changed all the
other FieldQuery subclasses to conform to the same pattern.
This has the side effect of allowing different kinds of queries (even
non-field queries) down the road.
This turns on metadata-writing based on the import.write config option, so
those with this option turned off will be spared any surprises. (Affects #217
and #143.)
The major functional change here is how files move around when in keep_new
mode. Now, files are first moved to the destination directory and then
copied/transcoded back into the library.
This avoids problems where naming conflicts could occur when transcoding from
MP3 to MP3 (and thus not changing the filename).
This would trigger a warning in Unidecode when metadata was missing (which is
the only case when those empty-string literals are used). Closes#109, which
is a different fix for the same problem.
