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Improve regex detection for the drive_sep_replace default (#6417)
I imported an album where a track had the name `1:00 AM - Clear` and
another track named `12:00 AM - Clear` (just two examples).

See: [Animal Crossing: New Horizons
OST](https://musicbrainz.org/release/263f7ed3-60c2-4251-ac7d-6da3f8691256)

After import, the former was renamed `1_00 AM - Clear`, and the latter
`12;00 AM - Clear`. Notice the inconsistency of how the `:` was
replaced.

I did not make use of the (hidden) `drive_sep_replace` setting. These
were my `replace` settings:
```
replace:                        # prevent file name incompatibiliy
  '[\s]'                        : ' '   # standardize whitespace
  '["`‘’“”]'                    : "'"   # standardize quotes
  '[\u002D\u2010-\u2015\u2E3A]' : '-'   # standardize dashes
  '[\u2E3B\uFE58\uFE63\uFF0D]'  : '-'   # standardize dashes
  '[\xAD]'                      : '-'   # standardize dashes
  '[\\\|\/]'                    : ' '   # slashes, pipe > space
  '[:]'                         : ';'   # colon > semicolon
  '[<>]'                        : '-'   # chevrons > dashes
  '[\?\*]'                      : ''    # remove restricted characters
  '[\x00-\x1F\x7F]'             : ''    # remove basic control characters
  '[\x80-\x9F]'                 : ''    # remove extra control characters
  '^\.'                         : ''    # remove leading period
  '\.$'                         : ''    # remove trailing period
  '^\s+'                        : ''    # remove leading space
  '\s+$'                        : ''    # remove trailing space
```

I found the issue to be too generic regex for drive separator detection.
I'm on macOS, so this is irrelevant to me anyway (and I got around it by
adding `drive_sep_replace: ';'` to my settings), but regardless, I think
this could be improved.

This PR improves the regex to detect drive separators. Instead of merely
looking for any first character followed by a colon (`^\w:`), we look
for a letter, followed by a colon, followed by a backslash instead
(`^[a-zA-Z]:\\`).

The regex logic is solid, but I am not able to test this on a real
Windows environment.

~Still have to add an entry to the changelog, will do so soon.~

# Update

Initially this commit failed the
`MoveTest.test_move_file_with_colon_alt_separator` test because it
checks the logic using a `C:DOS` path. So I had to make the logic less
restrictive again, not checking for a backslash (`^[a-zA-Z]:`). I would
argue the test itself should be amended (test with `C:\DOS` instead),
but that's not up to me.

As a result, my case of "1:00 AM" being replaced incorrectly is still
resolved, but other hypothetical cases like "a:b" would still not be
covered due to an arguably incorrect test limiting a more precise regex.
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beets
=====

Beets is the media library management system for obsessive music geeks.

The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It
catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes. It
then provides a suite of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

Here's an example of beets' brainy tag corrector doing its thing:

::

    $ beet import ~/music/ladytron
    Tagging:
        Ladytron - Witching Hour
    (Similarity: 98.4%)
     * Last One Standing      -> The Last One Standing
     * Beauty                 -> Beauty*2
     * White Light Generation -> Whitelightgenerator
     * All the Way            -> All the Way...

Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can
imagine for your music collection. Via plugins_, beets becomes a panacea:

- Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: `album art`_,
  lyrics_, genres_, tempos_, ReplayGain_ levels, or `acoustic fingerprints`_.
- Get metadata from MusicBrainz_, Discogs_, and Beatport_. Or guess metadata
  using songs' filenames or their acoustic fingerprints.
- `Transcode audio`_ to any format you like.
- Check your library for `duplicate tracks and albums`_ or for `albums that are
  missing tracks`_.
- Clean up crufty tags left behind by other, less-awesome tools.
- Embed and extract album art from files' metadata.
- Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any
  browser that supports `HTML5 Audio`_.
- Analyze music files' metadata from the command line.
- Listen to your library with a music player that speaks the MPD_ protocol and
  works with a staggering variety of interfaces.

If beets doesn't do what you want yet, `writing your own plugin`_ is shockingly
simple if you know a little Python.

.. _acoustic fingerprints: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/chroma.html

.. _album art: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/fetchart.html

.. _albums that are missing tracks: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/missing.html

.. _beatport: https://www.beatport.com

.. _discogs: https://www.discogs.com/

.. _duplicate tracks and albums: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/duplicates.html

.. _genres: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lastgenre.html

.. _html5 audio: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#the-audio-element

.. _lyrics: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lyrics.html

.. _mpd: https://www.musicpd.org/

.. _musicbrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/

.. _musicbrainz music collection: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Collections/

.. _plugins: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/

.. _replaygain: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/replaygain.html

.. _tempos: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/acousticbrainz.html

.. _transcode audio: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/convert.html

.. _writing your own plugin: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/dev/plugins/index.html

Install
-------

You can install beets by typing ``pip install beets`` or directly from Github
(see details here_). Beets has also been packaged in the `software
repositories`_ of several distributions. Check out the `Getting Started`_ guide
for more information.

.. _getting started: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/guides/main.html

.. _here: https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#run-the-latest-source-version-of-beets

.. _software repositories: https://repology.org/project/beets/versions

Contribute
----------

Thank you for considering contributing to ``beets``! Whether you're a programmer
or not, you should be able to find all the info you need at CONTRIBUTING.rst_.

.. _contributing.rst: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst

Read More
---------

Learn more about beets at `its Web site`_. Follow `@b33ts`_ on Mastodon for news
and updates.

.. _@b33ts: https://fosstodon.org/@beets

.. _its web site: https://beets.io/

Contact
-------

- Encountered a bug you'd like to report? Check out our `issue tracker`_!

  - If your issue hasn't already been reported, please `open a new ticket`_ and
    we'll be in touch with you shortly.
  - If you'd like to vote on a feature/bug, simply give a :+1: on issues you'd
    like to see prioritized over others.
  - Need help/support, would like to start a discussion, have an idea for a new
    feature, or would just like to introduce yourself to the team? Check out
    `GitHub Discussions`_!

.. _github discussions: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/discussions

.. _issue tracker: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues

.. _open a new ticket: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/new/choose

Authors
-------

Beets is by `Adrian Sampson`_ with a supporting cast of thousands.

.. _adrian sampson: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/