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1.0b5
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* A new plugin, "lastid", adds Last.fm acoustic fingerprinting support
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to the autotagger. Similar to the PUIDs used by MusicBrainz Picard,
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this system allows beets to recognize files that don't have any
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metadata at all. You'll need to install some dependencies for this
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plugin to work; a guide is available on the project wiki here:
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http://code.google.com/p/beets/wiki/LastID
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* To support the above, there's also a new system for extending the
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autotagger via plugins. Plugins can currently add components to the
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track and album distance functions as well as augment the MusicBrainz
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search.
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* String comparisons in the autotagger have been augmented to act more
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intuitively. Previously, if your album had the title "Something (EP)"
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and it was officially called "Something", then beets would think this
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was a fairly significant change. It now checks for and appropriately
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reweights certain parts of each string. As another example, the title
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"The Great Album" is considered equal to "Great Album, The".
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* New event system for plugins (thanks, Jeff!). Plugins can now get
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callbacks from beets when certain events occur in the core.
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* The BPD plugin is now disabled by default. This greatly simplifies
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installation of the beets core, which is now 100% pure Python. To use
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BPD, though, you'll need to set "plugins: bpd" in your .beetsconfig.
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* The "import" command can now remove original files when it copies
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items into your library. (This might be useful if you're low on disk
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space.) Set the "import_delete" option in your .beetsconfig to "yes".
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* Importing without autotagging ("beet import -A") now prints out album
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names as it imports them to indicate progress.
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* There's a new "mpdupdate" plugin that will automatically update your
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MPD index whenever your beets library changes. Read the plugin's
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documentation on the wiki:
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http://code.google.com/p/beets/wiki/MPDUpdate
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* Efficiency tweak should reduce the number of MusicBrainz queries per
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autotagged album.
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* A new "-v" command line switch enables debugging output.
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* Fixed bug that completely broke non-autotagged imports ("import -A").
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* Fixed bug that logged the wrong paths when using "import -l".
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* Fixed autotagging for the creatively-named band !!!.
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* Fixed normalization of relative paths.
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* Fixed escaping of / characters in paths on Windows.
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1.0b4
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* Parallel tagger. The autotagger has been reimplemented to use
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multiple threads. This means that it can concurrently read files
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from disk, talk to the user, communicate with MusicBrainz, and
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write data back to disk. Not only does this make the tagger much
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faster because independent work may be performed in parallel, but it
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makes the tagging process much more pleasant for large imports. The
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user can let albums queue up in the background while making a
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decision rather than waiting for beets between each question it asks.
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The parallel tagger is on by default but a sequential (single-
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threaded) version is still available by setting the "threaded"
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config value to "no" (because the parallel version is still quite
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experimental).
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* Colorized tagger output. The autotagger interface now makes it a
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little easier to see what's going on at a glance by highlighting
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changes with terminal colors. This feature is on by default, but you
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can turn it off by setting "color" to "no" in your .beetsconfig (if,
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for example, your terminal doesn't understand colors and garbles the
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output).
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* Pause and resume imports. The "import" command now keeps track of its
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progress, so if you're interrupted (beets crashes, you abort the
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process, an alien devours your motherboard, etc.), beets will try to
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resume from the point where you left off. The next time you run
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"import" on the same directory, it will ask if you want to resume. It
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accomplishes this by "fast-forwarding" through the albums in the
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directory until it encounters the last one it saw. (This means it
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might fail if that album can't be found.) Also, you can now abort the
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tagging process by entering "B" (for aBort) at any of the prompts.
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* Overhauled methods for handling fileystem paths to allow filenames
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that have badly encoded special characters. These changes are pretty
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fragile, so please report any bugs involving UnicodeErrors or SQLite
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ProgrammingErrors with this version.
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* The destination paths (the library directory structure) now respect
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album-level metadata. This means that if you have an album in which
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two tracks have different album-level attributes (like year, for
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instance), they will still wind up in the same directory together.
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(There's currently not a very smart method for picking the "correct"
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album-level metadata, but we'll fix that later.)
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* Fixed a bug where the CLI would fail completely if the LANG
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environment variable was not set.
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* Fixed removal of albums (beet remove -a): previously, the album
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record would stay around although the items were deleted.
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* The setup script now makes a beet.exe startup stub on Windows;
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Windows users can now just type "beet" at the prompt to run beets.
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* Fixed an occasional bug where Mutagen would complain that a tag was
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already present.
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* Fixed a bug with reading invalid integers from ID3 tags.
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* The tagger should now be a little more reluctant to reorder tracks
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that already have indices.
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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). You can also set the
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"pluginpath" config option to a colon-separated list of directories
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to search for plugins. Plugins are just Python modules under the
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"beetsplug" namespace package containing subclasses of
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beets.plugins.BeetsPlugin. See the "beetsplug" directory 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. This means that commands like "beet ls -a"
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and "beet rm -a" won't match anything. To "upgrade" your database,
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you can use the included "albumify" plugin. Running "beets albumify"
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with the plugin activated will group all your items into albums,
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making beets behave more or less as it did before.
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* Fixed some bugs with encoding paths on Windows. Also, : is now
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replaced with - in path names (instead of _) for readability.
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* MediaFiles now have a "format" attribute, so you can use $format in
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your library path format strings like "$artist - $album ($format)"
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to get directories with names like "Paul Simon - Graceland (FLAC)".
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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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