# Auto-tagger penalty

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/auto-tagger-penalty/913>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/auto-tagger-penalty/913 "2019-09-11T10:34:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![aalbaer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/aalbaer/32/294_2.png) [@aalbaer](https://discourse.beets.io/u/aalbaer)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/auto-tagger-penalty/913/1 "2019-09-11T10:34:52Z")

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Hello together,

several albums in my library have a mixed naming. That is, wrong track\_name and track\_id. But since the album is known and the track\_length, beets should be able to tagg properly.  
What is the way to go?  
Acutally I run beets without chroma plugin (WSL2 crashes with chroma) and I wanted to go with the penalty in the config.yaml  
match:  
max\_rec:  
track\_length: low

Turns out that this does not work. See attached figure.

 ![wrongFilenames](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/b371cde3393019bf331b5beff34706439633cd07.jpeg)

Can anybody give me a short hint?

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 11:46am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/auto-tagger-penalty/913/2 "2019-09-11T11:46:43Z")

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Sorry for the disappointing answer, but the situation you’re looking at really wants fingerprinting. I would figure out how to run chroma if I were you.

You could also adjust the undocumented matching weight settings to make track length matter more than titles, but that will likely cause other problems for other albums.

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**Author:** ![aalbaer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/aalbaer/32/294_2.png) [@aalbaer](https://discourse.beets.io/u/aalbaer)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/auto-tagger-penalty/913/3 "2019-09-11T13:20:03Z")

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Thanks for the quick response. I will run the tagging on a native linux machine.

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**Author:** ![aalbaer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/aalbaer/32/294_2.png) [@aalbaer](https://discourse.beets.io/u/aalbaer)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/auto-tagger-penalty/913/4 "2019-09-12T09:16:24Z")

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Quick note: Fingerprinting via chroma plugin does the job, IF fingerprint exists in the acoustid database.