Automatically clear artwork on import

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Is there a way to clear embedded artwork on import? Scrub seems to be hardcoded to preserve it, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to run clearart on import.

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No, I don’t think there is.

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A combination of a plugin to set a flexattr for the last import and an import hook to clear just those will do the job, I was using that for a bit.

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Thanks. I’ll look into that.

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I’ve wanted to do this in the past and I would’ve thought Scrub does this.

The scrub plugin lets you remove extraneous metadata from files’ tags…the plugin can automatically remove all non-beets-tracked tags…

Does this mean that Scrub only removes tags outside of ID3? That’s assuming beets tracks ID3 type metadata.

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No, it doesn’t remove entire tag types like ID3. It removes only those tags that aren’t in the MediaFile tag mapping list.