# Displayed text is hard to read in cmd

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/displayed-text-is-hard-to-read-in-cmd/1906>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 19, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/displayed-text-is-hard-to-read-in-cmd/1906 "2021-10-19T00:36:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yoinkospoinkspoinksp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/74df32/32.png) [@yoinkospoinkspoinksp](https://discourse.beets.io/u/yoinkospoinkspoinksp)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/displayed-text-is-hard-to-read-in-cmd/1906/1 "2021-10-19T00:36:06Z")

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I don’t know how to describe this, but I don’t think it’s supposed to look like that and it’s making it difficult to read.

 ![2021-10-19-00-59-cmd-117](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/2294e15ab96050ccc80a4b95d0f202fc017c9c9b.png)

I have almost no experience with python, I don’t know what’s causing it. I thought maybe I should be using something other than cmd? but I don’t know what.

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**Author:** ![jackwilsdon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jackwilsdon/32/10_2.png) [@jackwilsdon](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jackwilsdon)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/displayed-text-is-hard-to-read-in-cmd/1906/2 "2021-10-19T01:40:43Z")

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Those are ANSI color codes - the fact you’re seeing them means your terminal doesn’t support them.

See [#2607](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/2607).

There are a couple of related threads on here too:

- [Beets echoing weird characters, confusing formatting](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beets-echoing-weird-characters-confusing-formatting/315)
- [Can someone please tell me how i can launch this in python?](https://discourse.beets.io/t/can-someone-please-tell-me-how-i-can-launch-this-in-python/1875)

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**Author:** ![yoinkospoinkspoinksp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/74df32/32.png) [@yoinkospoinkspoinksp](https://discourse.beets.io/u/yoinkospoinkspoinksp)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/displayed-text-is-hard-to-read-in-cmd/1906/3 "2021-10-19T16:44:01Z")

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solved by putting this in config

```auto
ui:
    color: no

```