# Fine tuning import settings

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/fine-tuning-import-settings/1153>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/fine-tuning-import-settings/1153 "2020-03-11T20:12:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![doronbehar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@doronbehar](https://discourse.beets.io/u/doronbehar)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/fine-tuning-import-settings/1153/1 "2020-03-11T20:12:53Z")

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I’d like to fine tune some settings in my import procedure. I think I’ve found the relevant sections in the docs regarding each setting but I don’t get the result I wish:

### Disable spotify search

Although I’ve enabled the `spotify` plugin, I don’t want any song in my library to be linked to it. I want only musicbrainz as a source. I’ve read [here](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/spotify.html#configuration) that these can be done with:

```auto
spotify:
    source_weight: 0

```

Is this written OK? Should it be `0.0`? There’s a certain directory I can test with and I always get suggested the spotify source of import:

```auto
Tagging:
    Buddy Tate - Tate A Tete
URL:
    https://open.spotify.com/album/1HbkzT3Pi5SGkhoDtazMYu
(Similarity: 95.7%) (year) (Spotify, 1994, Storyville)
[A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort, Print tracks, eDit, edit Candidates?

```

### Automatically apply best candidate if above 90% match

If I try to import a directory with a match of 90% or more, I’d like it this match to be automatically applied. I read [here](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/config.html#autotagger-matching-options) I need to set this:

```auto
match:
    strong_rec_thresh: 0.10

```

But I still get this:

```auto
[A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort, Print tracks, eDit, edit Candidates?

```

When encountering a 90+% match. Am I reading the documentation correct?

Here’s an example output:

```auto
/var/lib/transmission/downloads/2007. Harry 'Sweets' Edison Quintet - Patented By Edison (24 items)
Correcting tags from:
    The Harry 'Sweets' Edison Quintet - Harry 'Sweets' Edison Quintet - Patented By Edison
To:
    Harry “Sweets” Edison - Patented by Edison
URL:
    https://musicbrainz.org/release/b6937e3a-aa1a-4b0c-940c-a6e1c2fd8272
(Similarity: 95.0%) (album, artist, tracks) (CD, 2007, XE, Jazz Collectors, JC 424)
 * I'm Confessin' That I Love You -> I'm Confessin' that I Love You
 * Canded Sweets -> Candied Sweets (title)
 * They Can't Take That Away From Me -> They Can't Take That Away from Me
 * Tea For Two -> Tea for Two
 * There Is No Greater Love -> There is No Greater Love
 * Twenty-Forty -> Twenty-forty
 * It's Easy To Remember -> It's Easy to Remember
 * Jive At Five -> Jive at Five
 * It Happened In Monterey -> It Happened in Monterey
[A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort, Print tracks, eDit, edit Candidates?

```

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/fine-tuning-import-settings/1153/2 "2020-03-12T02:08:13Z")

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- Try `1.0` or larger. It’s a penalty, so `0.0` will remove the penalty (not what you want).
- Hmm; that looks right to me? I don’t exactly see why that wouldn’t work… maybe seeing the rest of your config would help?

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**Author:** ![doronbehar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@doronbehar](https://discourse.beets.io/u/doronbehar)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 8:58am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/fine-tuning-import-settings/1153/3 "2020-03-12T08:58:11Z")

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> [@adrian](#):
>
> Try `1.0` or larger. It’s a penalty, so `0.0` will remove the penalty (not what you want).

I think that works. When the docs said: “set to 0.0 to disable”, I thought it meant to the other way around :).

> [@adrian](#):
>
> Hmm; that looks right to me? I don’t exactly see why that wouldn’t work… maybe seeing the rest of your config would help?

Sure, here it is:

> **beet config**
>
> ```
> lyrics:
> bing_lang_from: []
> sources: google musixmatch
> auto: yes
> bing_client_secret: REDACTED
> bing_lang_to:
> google_API_key: REDACTED
> google_engine_ID: REDACTED
> genius_api_key: REDACTED
> fallback:
> force: no
> local: no
> directory: /var/lib/mpd/music-new
> library: /var/lib/mpd/music-new/beets.db
> 
> musicbrainz:
> pass: REDACTED
> host: musicbrainz.org
> ratelimit: 1
> ratelimit_interval: 1.0
> searchlimit: 10
> user: doronbehar
> 
> import:
> write: yes
> copy: yes
> move: no
> link: no
> delete: no
> resume: ask
> incremental: no
> quiet_fallback: skip
> none_rec_action: ask
> timid: no
> autotag: yes
> quiet: no
> singletons: no
> default_action: apply
> languages: []
> detail: no
> flat: no
> group_albums: no
> pretend: no
> search_ids: []
> duplicate_action: ask
> 
> clutter: [Thumbs.DB, .DS_Store]
> ignore:
> - .*
> - '*~'
> - System Volume Information
> - lost+found
> ignore_hidden: yes
> 
> replace:
> '[\\/]': '-'
> ^\.: _
> '[\x00-\x1f]': _
> '[<>"\?\*\|]': _
> ':': ' -'
> \s+$: ''
> ^\s+: ''
> path_sep_replace: _
> asciify_paths: no
> art_filename: cover
> max_filename_length: 0
> 
> plugins:
> - absubmit
> - mbsubmit
> - acousticbrainz
> - inline
> - mbcollection
> - chroma
> - fromfilename
> - info
> - duplicates
> - edit
> - fetchart
> - ipfs
> - lastgenre
> - missing
> - mbsync
> - mpdstats
> - mpdupdate
> - lyrics
> - playlist
> - smartplaylist
> - replaygain
> - spotify
> - import_history
> pluginpath: [/var/src/beets-import_history/beetsplug]
> threaded: yes
> timeout: 5.0
> per_disc_numbering: yes
> verbose: 0
> terminal_encoding:
> original_date: no
> id3v23: no
> va_name: Various Artists
> 
> ui:
> terminal_width: 80
> length_diff_thresh: 10.0
> color: yes
> colors:
> text_success: green
> text_warning: yellow
> text_error: red
> text_highlight: red
> text_highlight_minor: lightgray
> action_default: turquoise
> action: blue
> 
> match:
> strong_rec_thresh: 0.04
> medium_rec_thresh: 0.25
> rec_gap_thresh: 0.25
> max_rec:
> missing_tracks: medium
> unmatched_tracks: medium
> distance_weights:
> source: 2.0
> artist: 3.0
> album: 3.0
> media: 1.0
> mediums: 1.0
> year: 1.0
> country: 0.5
> label: 0.5
> catalognum: 0.5
> albumdisambig: 0.5
> album_id: 5.0
> tracks: 2.0
> missing_tracks: 0.9
> unmatched_tracks: 0.6
> track_title: 3.0
> track_artist: 2.0
> track_index: 1.0
> track_length: 2.0
> track_id: 5.0
> preferred:
> countries: []
> media: []
> original_year: no
> ignored: []
> required: []
> track_length_grace: 10
> track_length_max: 30
> 
> format_item: ${format} % ${albumartist} - ${album} | CD-${disc} | ${track} ${title}
> format_album: $album
> time_format: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
> format_raw_length: no
> 
> sort_album: albumartist+ album+
> sort_item: artist+ album+ disc+ track+
> sort_case_insensitive: yes
> item_fields:
> isMultiDisc: "u'yes' if\n (int(disctotal) > 1) and (disctotal != '')\nelse\n u''\n"
> 
> paths:
> default: $album%aunique{album, albumartist}/%if{$isMultiDisc,CD-$disc/}$track $title
> singleton: $artist - Singles/$title
> comp: $album%aunique{album, albumartist}/%if{$isMultiDisc,CD-$disc/}$track $title
> chrome:
> auto: no
> ipfs:
> auto: no
> nocopy: no
> lastgenre:
> force: no
> source: track
> count: 10
> whitelist: yes
> min_weight: 10
> fallback:
> canonical: no
> auto: yes
> separator: ', '
> prefer_specific: no
> absubmit:
> auto: no
> extractor: ''
> replaygain:
> backend: gstreamer
> overwrite: no
> auto: yes
> targetlevel: 89
> r128: [Opus]
> spotify:
> source_weight: 1.0
> mode: list
> tiebreak: popularity
> show_failures: no
> artist_field: albumartist
> album_field: album
> track_field: title
> region_filter:
> regex: []
> client_id: 4e414367a1d14c75a5c5129a627fcab8
> client_secret: REDACTED
> tokenfile: spotify_token.json
> include: [private.yaml]
> import_history:
> auto: yes
> pathfields: {}
> album_fields: {}
> mbcollection:
> auto: no
> collection: ''
> remove: no
> playlist:
> auto: no
> playlist_dir: .
> relative_to: library
> smartplaylist:
> relative_to:
> playlist_dir: .
> auto: yes
> playlists: []
> mpd:
> host: a9kVkaZtWC8SievthFNTv7XqP@localhost
> port: 6600
> password: REDACTED
> music_directory: /var/lib/mpd/music-new
> rating: yes
> rating_mix: 0.75
> fetchart:
> auto: yes
> minwidth: 0
> maxwidth: 0
> enforce_ratio: no
> cautious: no
> cover_names:
> - cover
> - front
> - art
> - album
> - folder
> sources:
> - filesystem
> - coverart
> - itunes
> - amazon
> - albumart
> google_key: REDACTED
> google_engine: 001442825323518660753:hrh5ch1gjzm
> fanarttv_key: REDACTED
> store_source: no
> chroma:
> auto: yes
> duplicates:
> album: no
> checksum: ''
> copy: ''
> count: no
> delete: no
> format: ''
> full: no
> keys: []
> merge: no
> move: ''
> path: no
> tiebreak: {}
> strict: no
> tag: ''
> edit:
> albumfields: album albumartist
> itemfields: track title artist album
> ignore_fields: id path
> missing:
> count: no
> total: no
> album: no
> mbsubmit:
> format: $track. $title - $artist ($length)
> threshold: medium
> acousticbrainz:
> auto: yes
> force: no
> tags: []
> ```

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**Author:** ![adrian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/adrian/32/4_2.png) [@adrian](https://discourse.beets.io/u/adrian)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/fine-tuning-import-settings/1153/4 "2020-03-12T18:30:19Z")

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Hmm; but your config says this:

```auto
match:
    strong_rec_thresh: 0.04

```

…which is the default.

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**Author:** ![doronbehar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@doronbehar](https://discourse.beets.io/u/doronbehar)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/fine-tuning-import-settings/1153/5 "2020-03-13T13:22:47Z")

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Wow thanks for catching that! I’ve had that part of the config down at the bottom and I forgot about it. I’ve tested this with a 90-95 % match import and it seems to be acting fine now.