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This may be beyond the scope of beets. I’m trying to use a separate python script to pull album art from VGMDB and everything works, but I need to provide a # or link. When automating this through beats, I can’t seem to find any other way to get this to work. Here is the code I’m looking at:

config.yaml

  hooks:
   #not working yet, need to figure out how to input the catalogue number.  want to get this to go soon!
    - event: album_imported
      command: /bin/sh -c 'cd "{album.path}" && python3 /config/scandownloader/vgmdbrip.py $catalognum'
      #command: 'cd "{album.path}" && python3 /config/scandownloader/vgmdbrip.py LZC-2269'

This command works if I put in a number manually, but I’d love to pull it from $catalognum if possible

The $catalognum reference is used when called upon by paths

    default: "[$genre]/%tcp{$album} ($year)(%substitute{$albumtype}) [$catalognum]/$disc_and_track $title"

Resulting in: VISIONS (Feat. Takuma Terashima) ∕ Akane Kumada (2022)(Vocal) [LZC-2269]

I assume it’s because the command is being run somewhat externally it has no reference to any of the actual values in beets. Is there anyway to feed it that somehow?

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hook interpolates the whole command, so you should just be able to do:

hook:
  hooks:
    - event: album_imported
      command: /bin/sh -c 'cd "{album.path}" && python3 /config/scandownloader/vgmdbrip.py "{album.catalognum}"'
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Wonderful! That worked so elegantly! Thank you :slight_smile: I still have a lot to learn it seems

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[EDIT FIXED]: apparently musicbrainz_albumid is actually mb_albumid in beets, but I would never have solved this without your lead in the right direction. Thank you!

Since that seemed so easy; honestly speaking I should have asked about using this tag instead. It will work 100% of the time whereas that one only works if it has a catalog number. As I tag, my files get populated with this tag:

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I’d love to use it in the same command, but throwing in album.musicbrainz_albumid didn’t seem to take

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Yeah beets doesn’t really make it obvious how it maps fields to tags (at least from a user side). You can take a look here to find all of the tag names across all supported formats: mediafile/mediafile.py at 6accdc4c4a7fe4d808b674a97fb5474e12621504 · beetbox/mediafile · GitHub