Album fields in path

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I’m pretty sure the answer to this is “no” but I figured I’ll ask anyway…

Can you use album-level fields in a path format?

I have an album-level “rating” field that it would be nice to use to organize on the disk, but I don’t think I can do that. Paths can only use item-level fields, right?

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Hello! That should actually work—templates (in paths but not elsewhere) try the album first and fall back to item-level data if that’s empty. Here is where it happens in the code:

However, queries are a different story: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/2988

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Hm. Well I have this on my config but it doesn’t work:

paths:
    rating:-1: blah/path/here/etc

Maybe you can only use album fields in the actual path itself, and not in the query part?

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Yes indeed, that’s exactly it. The PR above is a (very tricky!) attempt to solve that problem with queries.

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I “solved” the problem by moving my album ratings into the item metadata. They’re duplicated across every track, but I set them using a script that can batch set them all at once, so it’s not a huge problem in the end.