Move MusicBrainzPlugin to SearchApiMetadataSourcePlugin hooks.
Keep entity mapping and criteria in provider-specific hooks.
Update typing and tests for the candidate search path.
Move search orchestration into SearchApiMetadataSourcePlugin.
Migrate Deezer, Spotify, and Discogs to provider hooks.
Keep query handling, logging, and limits centralized.
- Add `LyricsMetadataInFlexFieldsMigration` to extract legacy source
URLs and language metadata from lyrics text into flex attributes
- Add `Lyrics.from_legacy_text` to parse legacy lyrics format
- Move `with_row_factory` context manager up to base `Migration` class
- Rename `migrate_table` to `migrate_model` and pass model class
instead of table name string. This is so that the migration can access
both `_table` and `_flex_table` attributes.
- Make `langdetect` import optional in `Lyrics.__post_init__`: users may
not have have the dependency installed, and we do not want the
migration to fail because of that.
- Move `BACKEND_BY_NAME` to module level for use outside plugin class
* Introduce a `Lyrics` dataclass to carry text, source URL, and language
metadata through fetch, translation, and storage paths.
* Return `Lyrics` from backends and plugin lookup methods instead of raw
tuples/strings.
* Store backend name in `lyrics_source` derived from fetched URL root
domain.
* Simplify translator flow to operate on `Lyrics`, reuse line splitting,
append translations in-place, and record translation language
metadata.
When lyrics.synced is enabled, avoid replacing existing synced lyrics with
newly fetched unsynced lyrics, even with force enabled.
Allow replacement when the new lyrics are also synced, or when synced mode
is disabled.
Introduce a new lastgenre `cleanup_existing` flag.
It handles the case where canonicalization is desired on existing tags.
The new logic triggers if:
- `force`: False
- `cleanup_existing: True
Depending on whether `whitelist: True` or `canonical: True`, the genres
are then canonicalized and/or whitelisting is applied
Build playlist paths using the selected format (`--format`/config), and only
replace extensions when the destination file is actually transcoded.
Precompute playlist entries before conversion runs so `--keep-new` does not
pick up mutated item paths and produce mismatched extensions.
Add/expand convert CLI tests to cover:
- config format playlist extension
- `--format` override playlist extension
- no-transcode (`no_convert`) playlist extension
- `--keep-new` destination playlist path behavior
When `import.delete` or `import.move` is enabled, the `assign_art` method calls `task.prune(candidate.path)` unconditionally.
This incorrectly deletes the configured `fetchart.fallback` file.
Add explicit check to skip pruning when the candidate path matches the configured fallback.
- Add Library._make_table() override to automatically migrate genres when database schema is updated
- Migration splits comma/semicolon/slash-separated genre strings into genres list
- Writes changes to both database and media files with progress reporting
- Remove lazy migration from correct_list_fields() - now handled at database level
- Remove migration-specific tests (migration is now automatic, not lazy)
- Update changelog to reflect automatic migration behavior
Related PR review comment changes:
- Replace _is_valid with _filter_valid method in lastgenre plugin
- Use unique_list and remove genre field from Beatport plugin
- Simplify LastGenre tests - remove separator logic
- Document separator deprecation in lastgenre plugin
- Add deprecation warning for genre parameter in Info.__init__()
Simplify multi-genre implementation based on maintainer feedback (PR #6169).
Changes:
- Remove multi_value_genres and genre_separator config options
- Replace complex sync_genre_fields() with ensure_first_value('genre', 'genres')
- Update all plugins (Beatport, MusicBrainz, LastGenre) to always write genres as lists
- Add automatic migration for comma/semicolon/slash-separated genre strings
- Add 'beet migrate genres' command for explicit batch migration with --pretend flag
- Update all tests to reflect simplified approach (44 tests passing)
- Update documentation
Implementation aligns with maintainer vision of always using multi-value genres
internally with automatic backward-compatible sync to the genre field via
ensure_first_value(), eliminating configuration complexity.
Migration strategy avoids problems from #5540:
- Automatic lazy migration on item access (no reimport/mbsync needed)
- Optional batch migration command for user control
- No endless rewrite loops due to proper field synchronization
Fixes#6347
- Fixed MusicBrainz Lucene query formatting in
`MusicBrainzAPI.format_search_term()` (lowercase + trim + escape Lucene
special chars).
- Fixed `plugins.musicbrainz:extra_tags` support by mapping `alias` and
`tracks` into MusicBrainz search fields.
- Adjusted logging to make MusicBrainz API logs visible under the shared
`beets` logger (and removed an unused per-module logger in
`beetsplug.bpd`).
