File paths not always working?

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Hi, I have catagorized my music as follows

/Artists-Bands
/Compilations
/Soundtracks

my config is like so

paths:
default: Artists-Bands/$albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track - $artist - $title
singleton: Non-Album/$artist - $title
comp: Compilations/$album%aunique{}/$track - $artist - $title
albumtype_soundtrack: Soundtracks/$album/$track - $artist -$title

only some of the albums are going into /Artists-Bands and the rest are going into /

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Any ideas?
Also, is it ok to just move these folders that have gone into / manually? or does that mess with the beets database?

Thank you!

2

I am presuming it is the singleton variable causing this but the albums not being treated as default contain more than 1 track?

for example I have ABBA albums in both / & /Artists-Bands

Maybe I should just remove the singleton variable?

3

Weird; I don’t see anything specifically wrong with your setup. Just to try something random, can you try putting tour default path at the end of the list?

Does your paths: config look right if you type beet config?

No, I would not do that—then the beets database won’t know where your files are.

4

Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

here is what you asked for, what do you mean putting default path at the end?

root@50ab4c94e6ec:/# beet config

plugins: fetchart embedart convert scrub replaygain lastgenre chroma web discogs
directory: /music
library: /config/musiclibrary.blb
art_filename: folder
threaded: yes
original_date: no
per_disc_numbering: no

clutter:

  • Thumbs.DB

  • .DS_Store

  • ‘*.m3u’

  • ‘*.cue’

  • .pls

  • ‘*.jpg’

  • ‘*.nfo’
    convert:
    auto: yes
    never_convert_lossy_files: yes
    ffmpeg: /usr/bin/ffmpeg
    opts: -ab 320k -ac 2 -ar 48000 -joint_stereo 0
    max_bitrate: 320
    threads: 12
    dest:
    pretend: no
    format: mp3
    id3v23: inherit
    formats:
    aac:
    command: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec aac -aq 1 $dest
    extension: m4a
    alac:
    command: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec alac $dest
    extension: m4a
    flac: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec flac $dest
    mp3: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -aq 2 $dest
    opus: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec libopus -ab 96k $dest
    ogg: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec libvorbis -aq 3 $dest
    wma: ffmpeg -i $source -y -vn -acodec wmav2 -vn $dest
    tmpdir:
    quiet: no
    embed: yes

    paths: {}
    no_convert: ‘’
    copy_album_art: no
    album_art_maxwidth: 0

paths:
default: Artists-Bands/$albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track - $artist - $title
singleton: Non-Album/$artist - $title
comp: Compilations/$album%aunique{}/$track - $artist - $title
albumtype_soundtrack: Soundtracks/$album/$track - $artist -$title

import:
write: yes
copy: no
move: yes
resume: ask
default_action: skip
incremental: yes
quiet_fallback: skip
timid: no
log: /config/beet.log
lastgenre:
auto: yes
source: album
whitelist: yes
min_weight: 10
count: 1
fallback:
canonical: no
force: yes
separator: ', ’
prefer_specific: no
embedart:
auto: yes
maxwidth: 0
compare_threshold: 0
ifempty: no
remove_art_file: no
fetchart:
auto: yes
maxwidth: 1000
cover_names: cover front art album folder Frontal frontal
google_key: REDACTED
sources: filesystem coverart itunes amazon albumart google *
minwidth: 500
enforce_ratio: yes
cautious: no
google_engine: 001442825323518660753:hrh5ch1gjzm
fanarttv_key: REDACTED
store_source: no
replaygain:
auto: no
overwrite: no
backend: command
targetlevel: 89
r128: [Opus]
command: ‘’
noclip: yes
scrub:
auto: yes

replace:
^.: _
‘[\x00-\x1f]’: _
‘[<>:"?*|]’: _
‘[\xE8-\xEB]’: e
‘[\xEC-\xEF]’: i
‘[\xE2-\xE6]’: a
‘[\xF2-\xF6]’: o
‘[\xF8]’: o
.: _ \s+: ‘’
web:
host: 0.0.0.0
port: 8337
cors: ‘’
cors_supports_credentials: no
reverse_proxy: no
include_paths: no
chroma:
auto: yes
discogs:
apikey: REDACTED
apisecret: REDACTED
tokenfile: discogs_token.json
source_weight: 0.5
user_token: REDACTED

5

In the future, please put pastes in Markdown code blocks so they’re readable.

In your list under paths:, put the default: line last.

6

Hi adrian,

just to update you that seems to have worked! thanks! :slight_smile: