- Instead of checking for empty `artist` query, use `va_likely`
parameter to determine whether we should query for Various Artists or
not.
- `album` / `title` is always a truthy string - no need to handle empty
criteria case
- `tracks` list always has at least one track - no need to check for
`len(items)`
Background
The `_legalize_stage` function was causing issues with Mypy due to
inconsistent type usage between the `path` and `extension` parameters.
This inconsistency stemmed from the `fragment` parameter influencing the
types of these variables.
Key issues
1. `path` was defined as `str`, while `extension` was `bytes`.
2. Depending on `fragment`, `extension` could be either `str` or `bytes`.
3. `path` was sometimes converted to `bytes` within `_legalize_stage`.
Item.destination` method
- The `fragment` parameter determined the output format:
- `False`: Returned absolute path as bytes (default)
- `True`: Returned path relative to library directory as str
Thus
- Rename `fragment` parameter to `relative_to_libdir` for clarity
- Ensure `Item.destination` returns `bytes` in all cases
- Code expecting strings now converts the output to `str`
- Use only `str` type in `_legalize_stage` and `_legalize_path`
functions
- These functions are no longer dependent on `relative_to_libdir`
FtInTitle performs a library store operation for every item it
processes, whether or not the item has changed. By limiting the
`item.store()` call to only those cases when the item has changed, the
plugin’s performance when processing an entire library improves by two
to three orders of magnitude.
Using the correct function signature for g_file_new_for_path fixes the
tests on s390x.
I do not have the full story on why this failed consistently only on
s390x, but I guess the big endian might have something to play with
this.
Here is how the tests were failing:
```
169s ___________________________ ThumbnailsTest.test_uri ____________________________
169s
169s self = <test.plugins.test_thumbnails.ThumbnailsTest testMethod=test_uri>
169s
169s def test_uri(self):
169s gio = GioURI()
169s if not gio.available:
169s self.skipTest("GIO library not found")
169s
169s > assert gio.uri("/foo") == "file:///" # silent fail
169s E AssertionError: assert '' == 'file:///'
169s E
169s E - file:///
169s
169s test/plugins/test_thumbnails.py:268: AssertionError
```
You can see a full log here [1] and a history of consistent failure
here [2]. Both links are bound to expire at some point, sorry future
archeologist 🤷.
[1]: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-plucky/plucky/s390x/b/beets/20250403_162414_5d1da@/log.gz#S5
[2]: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/beets/plucky/s390x
This was not thought through clearly before. It now behaves as follows
which I suppose is least surprising to a user:
- force is on, keep_existing is on, but the whitelist is DISABLED
- no stage found anything on last.fm
- fall back to the original genre
If in this example the whitelist would be ENABLED, the behaviour
changes: Only if the existing genre passes the whitelist test the
original is kept.
- Revert/fix last.fm fetcher methods to validate genres.
- In past versions (<=2.2) _resolve_genres which included whitelist
checks ran instantly after fetching last.fm tags which made sure the
next stage is hit when nothing worthwhile was found (e.g fallback
album -> artist).
- Bring back this behavior but don't run a full _resolve_genres but a
quick valid (whitelist) check only!
- Introduce an extended config/CLI option that allows to really log what
each stage fetches (prior to validation/whitelist filtering).
- Since this potentially is verbose especially with VA albums (a lot
of artist tag fetches) for performance and debug log clutter reasons
this is disabled by default.
- Clarify final last.fm tags debug log message to "valid last.fm genres"
which was the usual behaviour in lastgenre ever since and it should be
kept that way. Also refactor "if track" to use a similar notation for
overall code readability.
