Emancipator released Soon It Will Be Cold Enough in 2006 and then again in 2008, albeit with two fewer tracks, and a new order for them. How do I import both albums and keep them separate in Beets without overwriting?
When you import the second one and beets tells you it’s a duplicate, just choose “keep both” and you should be all good.
It merges their contents into a single directory. Could it be because they’re filed under the same release group in MusicBrainz? I would like to keep them in separate directories, so obviously they would need to have differing names.
The aunique{} path format function should prevent that. It’s present in the default paths configuration—have you configured paths that don’t use that, by chance?
That function is a godsend! Too bad it doesn’t work with artist names.