# Import trouble

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-trouble/2013>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 31, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-trouble/2013 "2022-01-31T11:55:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Chabula](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/chabula/32/610_2.png) [@Chabula](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Chabula)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-trouble/2013/1 "2022-01-31T11:55:23Z")

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I have the music nice at the following way  
Artist  
Album  
Artist Album Track Titel  
or  
Artist  
Album  
CD 1  
CD 2  
Artist Album Track Titel  
Now I use Beet beet import -A …

and got the following  
Artist  
Album  
Artist Album Track Artist

But everything that is under CD1 CD2 is written as

```
     Artist 
           Album ( Complete Studio Albums & Curiosa Disc 1)
               Boudewijn de Groot Complete Studio Albums & Curiosa Disc 1 - 18 - Referein Voor.mp3

```

The different cd are missing after import  
How to avoid this with other words how to import it into beet without any chanching

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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:** [January 31, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-trouble/2013/2 "2022-01-31T13:14:42Z")

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Hi! I’m not sure I completely understand your question, but you might be interested in this FAQ about creating per-disc directories:  
[https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#create-disc-n-directories-for-multi-disc-albums](https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq.html#create-disc-n-directories-for-multi-disc-albums)

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**Author:** ![Chabula](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/chabula/32/610_2.png) [@Chabula](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Chabula)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-trouble/2013/3 "2022-01-31T15:24:18Z")

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Perhaps ,  
But I have tried to put something in te config file , bus wasn’t succesfull  
Still all in one instead of 12 different Cd

One album has 12 Cd’s and i want to have it als Artist/album/ with 12 dcd’s under it insttead of one

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**Author:** ![Chabula](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/chabula/32/610_2.png) [@Chabula](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Chabula)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-trouble/2013/4 "2022-02-06T12:35:55Z")

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Still no solution for the problem.  
On disk it is all written to  
Boudewijn de Groot - Complete Studio Albums & Curiosa Disc 1

while under beet ls written as  
Boudewijn de Groot - Complete Studio Albums & Curiosa Disc 1  
to  
Boudewijn de Groot - Complete Studio Albums & Curiosa Disc 12  
How can I make that it is written to dis as in ls

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**Author:** ![Chabula](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/chabula/32/610_2.png) [@Chabula](https://discourse.beets.io/u/Chabula)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/import-trouble/2013/5 "2022-02-08T13:36:55Z")

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I find it very strange that Beets write an 12 cd big album into on cd  
In exampel Lidarr it is writen as  
Artist  
Album  
Cd1  
Track Tittle  
Cd2  
Track Ttitle  
and so on

While afte import in Beet , the structure hasbeen changed to  
Artist  
Album  
Cd1  
Track Tittle  
Track Tittle

So all of the 11 Cd#s of this album are put in one single sibdir instead of the Dir’s 1 to 12  
How to avoid this .  
Read the manual , but I can 't figure it out