Any way to disable album artist <-> track artist fallbacks?

RollingStar · October 24, 2019, 2:59am

beetbox/beets/blob/master/beets/library.py#L412


    """
    if self.for_path and key in self.album_keys:
        return self._get_formatted(self.album, key)
    elif key in self.model_keys:
        return self._get_formatted(self.model, key)
    elif key in self.album_keys:
        return self._get_formatted(self.album, key)
    else:
        raise KeyError(key)


def __getitem__(self, key):
    """Get the value for a key. Certain unset values are remapped.
    """
    value = self._get(key)


    # `artist` and `albumartist` fields fall back to one another.
    # This is helpful in path formats when the album artist is unset
    # on as-is imports.
    if key == 'artist' and not value:
        return self._get('albumartist')
    elif key == 'albumartist' and not value:

I have a compliation which is annoyingly tagged without an album artist but with individual track artists across 30+ tracks. So I get 30+ folders in my music folder. Is there a way to avoid this fallback?

My realistic answer is probably to manually fix such albums - I don’t think I have too many of them.

This may be a good thing to note in -v or -vv, regardless.

adrian · October 24, 2019, 3:28am

I think the normal way to do this is to mark the album as a compilation and to use a corresponding comp path in your configuration to sort the album accordingly. Maybe give that a shot, or just use beet modify -a albumartist=“Various Artist” some album or similar?

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Any way to disable album artist <-> track artist fallbacks?

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