# Ignore file and folder names when tagging- only use acoustic id

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/ignore-file-and-folder-names-when-tagging-only-use-acoustic-id/2480>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [February 12, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/ignore-file-and-folder-names-when-tagging-only-use-acoustic-id/2480 "2024-02-12T11:10:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![lordjaba](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/lordjaba/32/809_2.png) [@lordjaba](https://discourse.beets.io/u/lordjaba)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/ignore-file-and-folder-names-when-tagging-only-use-acoustic-id/2480/1 "2024-02-12T11:10:16Z")

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Some time ago autottagging messed up my library. Folders, filenames and tags are completely wrong. Can I force beets to completely ignore them and use only acoustic id ? Any suggestion that takes existing things to account will be wrong.  
I was thinking about just making all the names of files and folders a random strings but there must be a better way

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**Author:** ![ctrueden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/ctrueden/32/475_2.png) [@ctrueden](https://discourse.beets.io/u/ctrueden)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/ignore-file-and-folder-names-when-tagging-only-use-acoustic-id/2480/2 "2024-02-16T23:20:26Z")

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@lordjaba Not sure if this helps, but what I do is run my newly acquired music through MusicBrainz Picard, often using its “Scan” function which goes by acoustic fingerprint. Then I save each file so that the metadata and filename matches the hit. After doing that, running the beets import is very smooth because all the files have 90+% (often 100%) metadata matches already.

I have not had the experience of beets messing up any of my metadata, though… in my experience I have found the autotagger very smart. But you can always remove stuff from your library and clean it up using Picard if you find beets has mangled anything.