Add link to community plugin
[`beets-filetote`](https://github.com/gtronset/beets-filetote).
This plugin is the spiritual successor to
[beets-copyartifacts](https://github.com/adammillerio/beets-copyartifacts)
(`beets-copyartifacts3` was last updated 3 years ago) and
[beets-extrafiles](https://github.com/Holzhaus/beets-extrafiles) (last
updated 5 years ago).
Given the updates and changes in beets and how outdated those plugins
are, does it make sense to keep `beets-copyartifacts` in the community
plugins list?
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Co-authored-by: Sebastian Mohr <39738318+semohr@users.noreply.github.com>
TIL that `with_suffix` does not simply append the suffix to the filename
- it instead replaces the old/current suffix. Or whatever seems to
look like a suffix, in our case, unfortunately...
## Description
This might be a quick one, depending on how you feel about it... It
allows you to pickle DB model objects. I don't think this is used
directly in Beets, but it might be useful in general. For instance, we
encountered an issue where we wanted to quickly pickle an Item or Album.
This sometimes worked and other times failed, which seemed quite
inconsistent.
Some DB model methods and properties have the side effect of attaching
an SQLite connection to self (._db), which prevents serialization. The
fix is quite straightforward, so I thought we might want to integrate
this into beets directly.
## To Do
- [x] Changelog
- [x] Tests
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
Fix ocurrence of `UnboundLocalError` in plugins/listenbrainz >
`get_tracks_from_listens()` when `mbid` is not available.
Removed a print statment.
Fix link to config.yaml.
Fix link to Listenbrainz "get the token" documentation.
Co-authored-by: Šarūnas Nejus <snejus@protonmail.com>
## Description
My library is managed using Beets for organization and
[git-annex](https://git-annex.branchable.com/) as storage backend.
Therefore when using this system, while my library files always exists
on my filesystem, some files may be empty (without content). In this
case, when I'm running the `convert` plugin, I don't wants it to process
files which are empty (same apply for any Beets plugin). Hence, I added
a check that the file is readable as a `MediaFile` before doing any
process.
Before this fix, trying to encode an empty file would have lead to an
error while leaving `convert` doing its side-effects **and** `convert`
would also copy empty files to destination for files that doesn't need
to be re-encoded.
In my case, this is empty files, but the problem can be anything else
(depending on the storage backend) and/or corrupted files. Conclusion, I
think **checking that the file is readable is always recommended before
proceeding to heavy operation** like this.
Without explicitly closing this file descriptor, the temp file would be kept open until the program exited and could not be deleted by the fetchart plugin.
URL-encode additional item `fields` within generated EXTM3U playlists instead of JSON-encoding them.
This is because JSON-encoding additional fields/attributes made it difficult to parse the `EXTINF` line but using URL-encoding for these values makes parsing easy (because URL-encoded values cannot contain commas, quotation marks and spaces).
I introduced the generation of additional EXTM3U item fields earlier this year and I want to correct that now.
**Design/definition background:**
Unfortunately, I didn't find a clear definition of how additional playlist item attributes should be encoded - apparently there is none.
Given that item URIs within an M3U playlist can be URL-encoded already, defining the values of additional attributes to be URL-encoded is consistent design.
I didn't find examples of additional EXTM3U item attributes in the web where the attribute value contains a comma, space or quotation mark but examples that specified numeric IDs and URLs as attribute values.
Because the URL attribute examples I found didn't contain URL-encoded characters and because it is more readable and unproblematic for parsing, I've let the attribute URL encoding treat `:` and `/` as safe characters.
**Breaking change:**
While this is a breaking change in theory, in practice it is not since afaik all integrations of the smartplaylist plugin's additional EXTM3U item attribute generation feature (beets-webm3u) work with simple attribute values such as the item ID (numeric) whose formatting/encoding is not affected when changing from JSON to URL-encoding.
In other words the change is backward-compatible with the beets-webm3u plugin (which I'll adjust correspondingly after this beets PR was merged).
See https://realpython.com/python-namespace-package.
This setup is backwards-compatible, so plugins using the old
pkgutil-based setup will continue working fine.
This setup has an advantage where external plugins will now be able to
import modules from 'beetsplug' package for typing purposes. Previously,
mypy could not resolve these modules due to presence of `__init__.py`.
This commit introduces a distance threshold mechanism for the Genius and
Google backends.
- Create a new `SearchBackend` base class with a method `check_match`
that performs checking.
- Start using undocumented `dist_thresh` configuration option for good,
and mention it in the docs. This controls the maximum allowable
distance for matching artist and title names.
These changes aim to improve the accuracy of lyrics matching, especially
when there are slight variations in artist or title names, see #4791.
