Hi, I’m sure I read somewhere (docs or forum) that this is possible, but I can’t seem to find the info back.
I would like to file an album by “Dunderhead/Tom Jenkinson” (who goes nowadays under the name Squarepusher) under the artist folder “Squarepusher” without altering the albumartist.
Thanks for a pointer.
best, Jan
A custom field is probably the simplest for this.
Not tried this myself, but you should be able to set your path format to something like this:
paths:
default: %ifdef{albumartistfolder,$albumartistfolder,$albumartist}/$album/$track $title
And then set albumartistfolder on any albums you’re interested in:
beet modify -a albumartistfolder="My Artist" <query>
After that, I think a beet move <query> should move the files to their new location.
@jackwilsdon thanks for your reply, that looks great but if I read this well this creates an additional folder under the artist like
Artist/Albumartistfolder/Album
is that right?
What I was looking for is that the album just goes under Squarepusher. I’m aware that that way I use a visual cue that this was made under an alias, but that info is still in the file meta data.
What I remember to have read is that I could put in my config a section that if a name matches “artistalias” it goes under “artist”. Does that ring a bell?
Ah, it’s possible that you’re thinking of the rewrite plugin?
https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/rewrite.html