Fixing a mucked up library

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I was too eager pressing “Ok” using Picard, and now I have a library where sometimes the tags are right, and sometimes they are very wrong.

Is there a way to tell beets “go through the library. get a fingerprint for each file. It is ok if this takes a long time. Now compare the metadata to the file - if it is mostly matching, great! However, do something with those that match poorly.”

beet fingerprint is good about making sure all my files have a fingerprint.

I’d also like to include acoustic fingerprint checking during beet import /mymess/

Any suggestions?

I’m new to beets, but it looks great! (and install on osx was very straightforward, thank you!)

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That’s basically what normal importing does with the chroma plugin enabled! That is, it calculates the fingerprint on the fly and uses that as a searching & matching criterion.

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Yay! I shall re-import. I do wish it would batch-ok the >95% matches, for the parts it didn’t mangle, Picard did ok.

Any way to emphasize the “are you SURE these tags are right? Because it is a perfect acoustic match for this other song over here…”

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I’m trying more and enjoying more. Here is my latest question:
When I get a crap match on an album, I get something like

/Users/ME/Music/Air Supply/Billboard Hits 1981 (1 items)
Finding tags for album "Air Supply - Billboard Hits 1981".
Candidates:
1. Air Supply - Greatest Hits (44.6%) (missing tracks, album, year) (CD, 1991, MX, Arista, CDL 1065)
2. (etc)

Heck, I dunno! :man_shrugging:
But then if I press “T” - it does the per-track acoustic fingerprinting, gets a 100% match on each track, and does it all with 100% confidence.

/Users/ME/Music/Air Supply/Billboard Hits 1981/03 The One That You Love.mp3
Tagging track: Air Supply - The One That You Love
URL:
    https://musicbrainz.org/recording/c2b83d0d-4557-421c-899a-b9a2b463d937
(Similarity: 100.0%)

Is this… good? Is this something I can tell it to go ahead and try without me typing T, with the hope for 100% matches?

Anything that results in a 100% confidence match, I’m all for doing it automatically.

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No, there’s no automatic way to switch from album-level tagging to track-level (singleton) tagging. You can import with -s, but that imports everything as singletons.

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Great suggestion - I made huge progress with

  1. Using a fancy find command to find all album folders with >6 files, and move those to a new place and import them first normally.
  2. Bulk import the smaller/non-albums using fingerprints via import -sq
  3. last pass cleanup and resolving questions