Do Templates Such as "%title" Also Change Metadata / Tags, or Just file and Directory Names?

[Zemi]

Assuming everything’s organized in the only structure beet understands; that is Artist(s) - Album - Track# Artist - Title, would introducing %title{$artist} - %title{$title} at the end of a path effectively Title Case artist and title metadata / tags?

From what I understand, %title template affects only file and directory names.

[adrian]

Yep, just the paths.

[Zemi]

Any way to make it work on metadata / tags? Can tags be ASCII-fied too, or just file and folder names?

What’s the backend of %title? How does it determine what gets uppercased?

This information is missing from the docs. Users should be aware of beet's weakneses, so as to not develop interest in the wrong solution.

[adrian]

That’s not currently possible, but this feature request seems relevant:

Formatted modify

We are always looking for help improving the docs! Please pitch in if you can. Here’s how %title is implemented:

beetbox/beets/blob/4dee523ba23dca211b44682a9287fdf6ffa41563/beets/library.py#L1491-L1494

Here’s a recent PR to improve it:

Capitalize letters after punctuations

[Zemi]

@adrian

We are always looking for help improving the docs! Please pitch in if you can. Here’s how %title is implemented:

github.com

beetbox/beets/blob/4dee523ba23dca211b44682a9287fdf6ffa41563/beets/library.py#L1491-L1494

@staticmethod
def tmpl_title(s):
    """Convert a string to title case."""
    return string.capwords(s)

This I can help with! Where do I register? Any guidelines / rules?

@adrian

That’s not currently possible, but this feature request seems relevant:

github.com/beetbox/beets

Formatted modify

opened Jan 7, 2014

sampsyo

There are a number of cool things we could do if the modify command supported templates in the value part. For…

Is asciify (not the template) affected by this limitation?

Please correct me otherwise, but would formatted modify enable beet’s paths (and templates) to change metadata / tags, as it currently does file and folder names?

@adrian

Here’s a recent PR to improve it:

github.com/beetbox/beets

Capitalize letters after punctuations

beetbox:master ← austinmm:capitalize_letters_after_punctuations

opened Oct 21, 2019

ColeBennett

+50 -8

Solid list of exceptions, capitalization after punctuations makes sense too!

[adrian]

Great! The place to do it is on GitHub:

GitHub - beetbox/beets: music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

You can start by reading our “Hacking” page, most of which is irrelevant because it’s about code instead of documentation, but some of which would be helpful:

Create new page · beetbox/beets Wiki

@Zemi

Is asciify (not the template) affected by this limitation?

Yes. I’m not sure what you mean by “not the template”… it’s a template function.

@Zemi

Please correct me otherwise, but would formatted modify enable beet 's paths (and templates) to change metadata / tags, as it currently does file and folder names?

It would led beets’s templates (which are also used for path formatting) affect metadata.

[beets_vanuatu]

In my WIP plugin I want to do modifications to the comments field in the metadata. But along the way I realized I have a pattern that would allow for any metadata field to be arbitrarily modified to fit a defined template string. There are probably some gotchas to be found along the way but I’m just looking at the comments field for now.

Feel free to dig through the dev branch and see if you can adapt anything to your needs. I would expand my plugin in the future for this use case if it can be done. There may be no point in having a general metadata modifying plugin and one just for comments maybe?

It def a work in progress though, no time to work on it lately.

michaeltoohig/BeetsPluginStructuredComments