Convert plugin - convert if source file changed?

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Hi

I just found the convert plugin - looks great. Just one question: I want to maintain a converted version of my tracks, and when I run beet convert again, it will skip the ones already converted.

My question: does it convert if the metadata has changed? Or does it only check for the existence of the destination file?

Thanks,

Rainer

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It just checks whether the destination file exists. It doesn’t have a way to know whether the metadata has changed.

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That is unfortunate. One way of checking, would be to check the time of the file. But I guess, this sounds easier than it would be to implement - but it would be a very useful feature, to only overwrite files older than the original one.