# Latest

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## [Unattended import with --search-id](https://discourse.beets.io/t/unattended-import-with-search-id/2440)

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**Author:** [@4t6r8fgyuv](https://discourse.beets.io/u/4t6r8fgyuv)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 15, 2024, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/unattended-import-with-search-id/2440 "2024-08-15T08:35:50Z")

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Hi everyone, I want to be able to run completely unattended import tasks. For that, I have individual tracks and I add the Spotify album ID to pass to the import command with --search-id. That works really well as it v…

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## [Beet list genre exact match](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-list-genre-exact-match/2610)

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**Author:** [@fliz](https://discourse.beets.io/u/fliz)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 9, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-list-genre-exact-match/2610 "2024-08-09T18:52:55Z")

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Running into an odd issue. I’ve got plenty of music with genre: Classical, but I’ve also got music with genre: Neoclassical. the query “beet list genre:classical” will list both classical and neoclassical the query “…

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## [Multiple Artists in Beets vs Picard](https://discourse.beets.io/t/multiple-artists-in-beets-vs-picard/2609)

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**Author:** [@gioser23](https://discourse.beets.io/u/gioser23)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 7, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/multiple-artists-in-beets-vs-picard/2609 "2024-08-07T14:50:19Z")

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I have started using beets and also Picard to test the possibility to automatize the tagging of new music of my library and maybe retag the entire library according to musicbrainz database. I have noted that the managem…

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## [Importing record label info to plex](https://discourse.beets.io/t/importing-record-label-info-to-plex/2606)

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**Author:** [@chooban](https://discourse.beets.io/u/chooban)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [August 6, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/importing-record-label-info-to-plex/2606 "2024-08-06T16:15:24Z")

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I’ve been spending some time importing the some jrock compilations into musicbrainz. After updating my beets library to see the new MB records and rescanning in plex, I noticed that the Record Label entry is blank in ple…

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## [How to import an album that was released as a single track without missing track errors?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-to-import-an-album-that-was-released-as-a-single-track-without-missing-track-errors/2603)

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**Author:** [@fliz](https://discourse.beets.io/u/fliz)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [August 3, 2024, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/how-to-import-an-album-that-was-released-as-a-single-track-without-missing-track-errors/2603 "2024-08-03T16:38:06Z")

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The specific release of Prince’s Lovesexy I’m trying to import was released as a single track, but both musicbrainz and discogs show the individual songs as individual tracks, causing beets to believe I have missing trac…

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## [Using Beets to Manage Huge Music Libraries: Best Practices and Suggestions](https://discourse.beets.io/t/using-beets-to-manage-huge-music-libraries-best-practices-and-suggestions/2598)

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**Author:** [@Juglee](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Juglee)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 30, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/using-beets-to-manage-huge-music-libraries-best-practices-and-suggestions/2598 "2024-07-30T15:56:21Z")

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Hello Everyone :hugs:, I recently started organising my huge music collection, and I have to say that Beets has changed the game in terms of usefulness and efficiency. But keeping a sizable collection brings its own set…

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## [Acousticbrainz: This plugin is deprecated](https://discourse.beets.io/t/acousticbrainz-this-plugin-is-deprecated/2594)

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**Author:** [@simistef](https://discourse.beets.io/u/simistef)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 20, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/acousticbrainz-this-plugin-is-deprecated/2594 "2024-07-20T22:53:51Z")

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I did an update to beets to version 2.0 and now I get the error message that the AcousticBrainz plugin is deprecated. Did not have this error yesterday when running beets on 1.6 version. Question is: can someone help me…

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## [Why Am I Unable To See My Post?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/why-am-i-unable-to-see-my-post/2600)

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**Author:** [@Juglee](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Juglee)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 19, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/why-am-i-unable-to-see-my-post/2600 "2024-07-19T07:39:39Z")

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Hello there, Recently, I posted a thread: https://discourse.beets.io/t/using-beets-to-manage-huge-music-libraries-best-practices-and-suggestions/2598/1 After few minutes, I got a notification that left me disappoint…

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## [Not Indexing propertly](https://discourse.beets.io/t/not-indexing-propertly/2593)

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**Author:** [@Caddik](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Caddik)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 17, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/not-indexing-propertly/2593 "2024-07-17T20:45:49Z")

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Beets works fine when I manually run the script to index from by download file to my music file docker exec -u abc -it beets /bin/bash -c ‘beet import /storage/Music-upload’ However when running in the background beets…

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## [Is this possible: Appending disambiguation to Album tag?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-this-possible-appending-disambiguation-to-album-tag/2391)

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**Author:** [@cirdanlunae](https://discourse.beets.io/u/cirdanlunae)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2024, 4:18am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-this-possible-appending-disambiguation-to-album-tag/2391 "2024-07-15T04:18:23Z")

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I’ve been a Picard user for nearly 12 years now. I dabbled in Beets for a little a few years ago and just couldn’t get things how I wanted it. I’m wanting to come back to try Beets again, but there’s one thing that’s a m…

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## [Import SACD with "missing" tracks?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-sacd-with-missing-tracks/2392)

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**Author:** [@IncredibleRay](https://discourse.beets.io/u/IncredibleRay)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 4, 2024, 12:08pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-sacd-with-missing-tracks/2392 "2024-07-04T12:08:11Z")

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I ripped a hybrid SACD and would like to import the tracks. There are 10 tracks on the disc, but of course that means 10 red book tracks, 10 stereo SACD tracks, and 10 multichannel SACD tracks. I can’t play multichannel …

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## [Is it possible to use the modify command to copy data between fields?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-it-possible-to-use-the-modify-command-to-copy-data-between-fields/2399)

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**Author:** [@frankoconnor](https://discourse.beets.io/u/frankoconnor)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 2, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/is-it-possible-to-use-the-modify-command-to-copy-data-between-fields/2399 "2024-07-02T12:21:08Z")

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Hi, just started using Beets and it’s amazing! I want to reorganize my music collection and was hoping to use beets to copy information in one field to another.

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## [Resuming import starts over : not using state.pickle?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/resuming-import-starts-over-not-using-state-pickle/2580)

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**Author:** [@glitchy](https://discourse.beets.io/u/glitchy)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 25, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/resuming-import-starts-over-not-using-state-pickle/2580 "2024-06-25T16:46:47Z")

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Hello I have a quite large library (around 80000 tracks). Right now it’s stored on a NAS and the share is mounted (NFS) on linux. I installed beets (2.0 with pipx install) on linux and I try to autotag and maybe nette…

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## [Store both original and romanized (if available) names for artists, albums and tracks](https://discourse.beets.io/t/store-both-original-and-romanized-if-available-names-for-artists-albums-and-tracks/2583)

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**Author:** [@Andy](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Andy)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 24, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/store-both-original-and-romanized-if-available-names-for-artists-albums-and-tracks/2583 "2024-06-24T21:09:54Z")

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I am aware of the “language” option in config - my understanding and experience is that it substitutes localized names for original names, if they are available. Is there a way to have the original names in the relevant …

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## [Tekstowo lyrics](https://discourse.beets.io/t/tekstowo-lyrics/2578)

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**Author:** [@Chabula](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Chabula)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 21, 2024, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/tekstowo-lyrics/2578 "2024-06-21T11:21:25Z")

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Is there a way to disable this lyric finder . I Noticed that a lot of music files have the lyrics from this site , but the are not correct

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## [Error creating directory](https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-creating-directory/2576)

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**Author:** [@phlomsx](https://discourse.beets.io/u/phlomsx)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 19, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/error-creating-directory/2576 "2024-06-19T09:29:40Z")

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beets is crashing with this error: Error: No such file or directory while creating /storage/music/new\_library/Пётр Ильич Чайковский, Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, Николай Мясковский, Дмитр M…

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## [Song Length, time?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/song-length-time/2575)

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**Author:** [@phlomsx](https://discourse.beets.io/u/phlomsx)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [June 18, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/song-length-time/2575 "2024-06-18T00:26:06Z")

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Have figured out the very basics of beets, yay! I don’t really understand the song length bit. For a lot of tunes it wants to change the song length, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. How do I manage this? If I imp…

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## [Pluginpath help](https://discourse.beets.io/t/pluginpath-help/2571)

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**Author:** [@seandelms](https://discourse.beets.io/u/seandelms)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 13, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/pluginpath-help/2571 "2024-06-13T12:42:25Z")

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Hi I’m a brand new user and not familiar with coding. I am trying to determine where to point the pluginpath to and how to input the text into the config file. thanks in advance for any help! PS if anyone has any detail…

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## [Transitioning from Picard?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/transitioning-from-picard/2567)

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**Author:** [@phlomsx](https://discourse.beets.io/u/phlomsx)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 4, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/transitioning-from-picard/2567 "2024-06-04T23:15:18Z")

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I decided a few months back to start sorting out my mess of a library. I opted for picard+musicbrainz and I’m learning slowly. I have a chunk of my tunes somewhat organized now, but also aware decisions I made last mont…

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## [Aliases for releases are not being used by beets](https://discourse.beets.io/t/aliases-for-releases-are-not-being-used-by-beets/2564)

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**Author:** [@sezaru](https://discourse.beets.io/u/sezaru)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 1, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/aliases-for-releases-are-not-being-used-by-beets/2564 "2024-06-01T18:38:26Z")

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I have the following configuration for beets: directory: musics library: musiclibrary.blb art\_filename: albumart threaded: yes original\_date: no per\_disc\_numbering: no import: write: yes copy: no move: yes …

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## [Import Is Not Working For Me. Please Help](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-is-not-working-for-me-please-help/2561)

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**Author:** [@bkrez](https://discourse.beets.io/u/bkrez)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-is-not-working-for-me-please-help/2561 "2024-05-31T20:21:14Z")

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Hello. After updating to the latest version. Now import does not add data to the library (or get discogs data for autotagging). Below is output from my testing with “Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?” RE: the discogs plugin, is i…

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## [Beets is EXTREMELY slow w/ sshfs mounted music directory](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-is-extremely-slow-w-sshfs-mounted-music-directory/2562)

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**Author:** [@fliz](https://discourse.beets.io/u/fliz)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-is-extremely-slow-w-sshfs-mounted-music-directory/2562 "2024-05-31T20:27:02Z")

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like… preposterously slow. It takes well over 10 minutes to import a single album. Any ideas for how to possibly speed this up?

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## [Beets randomly skipping albums](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-randomly-skipping-albums/2559)

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**Author:** [@burningchrome](https://discourse.beets.io/u/burningchrome)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 31, 2024, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-randomly-skipping-albums/2559 "2024-05-31T05:47:42Z")

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There was a previous post with a similar problem but it wasn’t solved. Seemingly random albums are being skipped by beets. The first time it happened I tried everything I could locate on the web and via a chatbot. I tur…

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## [Why would inline runs no matter whether condition is true or false?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/why-would-inline-runs-no-matter-whether-condition-is-true-or-false/2545)

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**Author:** [@swills](https://discourse.beets.io/u/swills)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 25, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/why-would-inline-runs-no-matter-whether-condition-is-true-or-false/2545 "2024-05-25T16:10:54Z")

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I have the followig and it should only add \[RE-year\] if year is greater than original\_year. However, it adds \[RE-year\] to the path even when the year and original\_year match. # inline inline: album\_fields: rerelea…

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## [I'm Leaving Discourse for Github](https://discourse.beets.io/t/im-leaving-discourse-for-github/2397)

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**Author:** [@RollingStar](https://discourse.beets.io/u/RollingStar)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 18, 2024, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/im-leaving-discourse-for-github/2397 "2024-05-18T21:01:29Z")

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I am no longer checking this forum as of now. The reasons are outlined below. For years now our project has maintained two nearly identical forums, one here and one on Github. This splits our userbase and makes our proj…

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## [Diary of Beets on ARM (Odroid-HC4, Armbian)](https://discourse.beets.io/t/diary-of-beets-on-arm-odroid-hc4-armbian/1993)

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**Author:** [@RollingStar](https://discourse.beets.io/u/RollingStar)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 18, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/diary-of-beets-on-arm-odroid-hc4-armbian/1993 "2024-05-18T20:56:28Z")

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I got a sorta NAS device which is arm based. I’m also getting ready for my third, and I hope against hope final, beets database. (Reason for that is for another thread.) I’m starting ‘from scratch’ on a new platform, wh…

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## [Beet import interrupted - files are gone](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-import-interrupted-files-are-gone/2551)

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**Author:** [@valpd](https://discourse.beets.io/u/valpd)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 17, 2024, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beet-import-interrupted-files-are-gone/2551 "2024-05-17T23:37:43Z")

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I ran beet import on my 40gb library. The laptop battery was dead so I had it plugged in. Cord got pulled out and laptop died. Now all the music folders are empty. How can I recover them? Do I need to resume impor…

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## [Forward Slashes in ID3 TXXX tags](https://discourse.beets.io/t/forward-slashes-in-id3-txxx-tags/2549)

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**Author:** [@imposterdroids](https://discourse.beets.io/u/imposterdroids)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 9, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/forward-slashes-in-id3-txxx-tags/2549 "2024-05-09T23:25:09Z")

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I have some existing Musicbrainz ID3 tags on mp3 files. For example, a TXXX frame for the musicbrainz album type, and it contains the text “album/compilation”. I’m finding that when imported beets rewrites these tags w…

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## [I can't get album sort to use originaldate (SOLVED)](https://discourse.beets.io/t/i-cant-get-album-sort-to-use-originaldate-solved/2547)

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**Author:** [@pancho-villa](https://discourse.beets.io/u/pancho-villa)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/i-cant-get-album-sort-to-use-originaldate-solved/2547 "2024-05-08T21:21:56Z")

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The album sort doesn’t seem to respect originaldate no matter what I do and I’m not sure how to fix it. I set originaldate: yes in the config and added sort\_album: albumartist+ year+ album+, but it keeps showing the albu…

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## [Fetch data from release id and then write without interaction](https://discourse.beets.io/t/fetch-data-from-release-id-and-then-write-without-interaction/2544)

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**Author:** [@rakma](https://discourse.beets.io/u/rakma)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 3, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/fetch-data-from-release-id-and-then-write-without-interaction/2544 "2024-05-03T21:49:40Z")

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I’m trying to set up a bash script to prompt when writing metadata to a file, even if the file already have metadata. However, after the script runs, it prompts another question. Does anyone have a better approach? Addit…

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