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Previously, importing without autotagging just imported a bunch of Items. Now, like the autotagging version, "import -A" creates albums based on the directory hierarchy. The effect is exactly as if the user chose "use as-is" every time in the interactive procedure. One side effect is that "import -A" can now only take directories, where previously it could take single items on the command line. We need a new solution for this kind of import in the future.
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1.0b3
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* Album art. The tagger now, by default, downloads album art from
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Amazon that is referenced in the MusicBrainz database. It places the
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album art alongside the audio files in a file called (for example)
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"cover.jpg". The "import_art" config option controls this behavior,
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as do the -r and -R options to the import command. You can set the
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name (minus extension) of the album art file with the
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"art_filename" config option.
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* Plugin architecture. Add-on modules can now add new commands to the
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beets command-line interface. The "bpd" and "dadd" commands were
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removed from the beets core and turned into plugins; BPD is loaded
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by default. To load the non-default plugins, use the "plugins" config
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value (a space-separated list of plugin names). Plugins are just
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Python modules under the "beetsplug" namespace package containing
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subclasses of beets.plugins.BeetsPlugin. See the "beetsplug" directory
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for examples.
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* Support for MusicBrainz ID tags. The autotagger now keeps track of the
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MusicBrainz track, album, and artist IDs it matched for each file. It
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also looks for album IDs in new files it's importing and uses those to
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look up data in MusicBrainz. Furthermore, track IDs are used as a
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component of the tagger's distance metric now. Tangentially, change
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required the database code to support a lightweight form of migrations
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so that new columns could be added to old databases--this is a
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delicate feature, so it would be very wise to make a backup of your
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database before upgrading to this version.
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* As a consequence of adding album art, the database was significantly
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refactored to keep track of some information at an album (rather than
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item) granularity. Databases created with earlier versions of beets
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should work fine, but they won't have any "albums" in them--they'll
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just be a bag of items. One way to "upgrade" your database so it
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contains albums is to remove your old database file and use
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"beet import -A" to import without autotagging. This will use the
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existing tags on the files but use their location in the directory
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tree to cluster items into albums.
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* Fixed some bugs with encoding paths on Windows. Also, :s are now
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replaced with -s in path names (instead of _s) for readability.
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1.0b2
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* Support for Ogg Vorbis and Monkey's Audio files and their tags.
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(This support should be considered preliminary: I haven't tested it
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heavily because I don't use either of these formats regularly.)
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* An option to the "beet import" command for logging albums that
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are untaggable (i.e., are skipped or taken "as-is"). Use
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"beet import -l LOGFILE PATHS". The log format is very simple: it's
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just a status (either "skip" or "asis") followed by the path to the
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album in question. The idea is that you can tag a large collection
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and automatically keep track of the albums that weren't found in
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MusicBrainz so you can come back and look at them later.
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* Fixed UnicodeEncodeError on terminals that don't (or don't claim to)
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support UTF-8.
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* Importing without autotagging ("beet import -A") is now faster and
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doesn't print out a bunch of whitespace. It also lets you specify
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single files on the command line (rather than just directories).
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* Fixed importer crash when attempting to read a corrupt file.
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* Reorganized code for CLI in preparation for adding pluggable
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subcommands. Also removed dependency on the aging "cmdln" module.
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1.0b1
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First public release.
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