I’m trying to locally change some metadata that was originally extracted from MusicBrainz. I have some songs that are part of the album “Tim Maia Racional, Volume 1” from albumartist “Tim Maia Racional”. I would like to change it to “Racional, Volume 1” from albumartist “Tim Maia”, but even after pe…

Can you please include your configuration? Have you tried beet move?

Yes, I’ve tryed beet move. It says $ beet move Moving 0 items (97 already in place). As for my configurations, directory: ~/Música/ library: ~/Música/.library plugins: fromfilename edit cmus pluginpath: ~/.config/beets/plugins edit: itemfields: title artist album url track singleton album…

Got it. Can you please try using beet modify -a when modifying album-level fields like albumartist? See further discussion here: [image] Issue: modify: don't require -a for album-level fields opened by sampsyo on 2014-03-01 The update command (along with the mbsync) plugin…

That worked! I read it in the documentation but somehow thought it didn’t apply… Thanks.

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adrian July 11, 2019, 9:41pm 4

Got it. Can you please try using beet modify -a when modifying album-level fields like albumartist? See further discussion here:

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Beets doesn’t change directories after modifying metadata

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