# Basic usage

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 20, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268 "2018-01-20T05:55:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![firewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@firewater](https://discourse.beets.io/u/firewater)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 5:55am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/1 "2018-01-20T05:55:19Z")

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(actually nevermind to all I previously wrote)

When using the following command;

`beet import -c "M:/Media/Audio/Album"`

What mode would be at work here? Is it gonna ask me for every album? Or every album that has less than certain accuracy? (if so, what would that accuracy be?) I have a 1tb collection and I’m wondering if I should do whatever’s the default, or `-t`, or `-ql LOGFILE`. Would appreciate any advice from more experienced users.

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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:** [January 20, 2018, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/2 "2018-01-20T14:08:13Z")

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It will ask you for every album whose similarity exceeds what’s specified in the `strong_rec_thresh` config option. But I encourage you to try it out! How often this asks you questions depends very strongly on how close your tags happen to be to MusicBrainz already.

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**Author:** ![firewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@firewater](https://discourse.beets.io/u/firewater)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 6:37am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/3 "2018-01-21T06:37:54Z")

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Cool! That would suit me.

A problem I have, on Windows, is that I can’t quite comment on the matches it asks me to review because the text is half garbage numbers. How could I solve this?

![10](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/a13bc03c8af4e1467760e1af83bdf651ffdbfe95.png)

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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:** [January 21, 2018, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/4 "2018-01-21T15:48:18Z")

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Indeed—please see:

> <https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/2607>

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**Author:** ![firewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@firewater](https://discourse.beets.io/u/firewater)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/5 "2018-01-21T23:46:30Z")

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Ohh, thanks much. I’ll change to PowerShell then.

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**Author:** ![firewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@firewater](https://discourse.beets.io/u/firewater)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/6 "2018-01-22T02:46:32Z")

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Actually I tried PowerShell and I get the same stuff. Should I remove Python3 and Install Python2? I’d do it but I don’t want to go through the hassle for the error to persist…

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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:** [January 22, 2018, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/7 "2018-01-22T02:59:21Z")

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Sorry, since I don’t use Windows, I don’t know what you’ll find. Maybe someone else can help!

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**Author:** ![firewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@firewater](https://discourse.beets.io/u/firewater)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 3:01am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/8 "2018-01-22T03:01:19Z")

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Oh that’s okay! I wouldn’t use it either but I’m stuck here. Anyhow, thanks for the help.

Hope to report back if Python2 works.

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**Author:** ![arogl](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/arogl/32/455_2.png) [@arogl](https://discourse.beets.io/u/arogl)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/9 "2018-01-22T03:26:12Z")

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I use cmd.exe within conemu and it has no problems.

I am not at home now, but can test later to see if plain cmd.exe works with python3

I tested cmd.exe and powershell standalone and the ansi encoding did not work as suggested.

Testing in conemu worked.

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**Author:** ![firewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@firewater](https://discourse.beets.io/u/firewater)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/basic-usage/268/10 "2018-01-22T23:35:58Z")

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Thanks much! I too confirm that it works properly on ConEmu.