# Importing "better" quality music

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/importing-better-quality-music/1316>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/importing-better-quality-music/1316 "2020-05-29T10:38:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kennyboy1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kennyboy1978](https://discourse.beets.io/u/kennyboy1978)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/importing-better-quality-music/1316/1 "2020-05-29T10:38:35Z")

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I have been using Beets for a while and it is truly an amazing tool. I have it setup perfectly for what I want it to do, primarily have clean tags and file/folder names.

I have just discovered a snag that I cannot get around. I don’t know whether it’s something I am not doing correctly or Beets simply cannot do it.

I am trying to import music from a hard drive (already ran through Beets and properly tagged on another computer) to my main machine. I know it contains some duplicates at a higher bitrate to what I already have. I thought I could just run $ beet imp -A /path/to/folder and that would flag up any duplicates being added. Instead it just populated the album with Tracktitle.1.mp3

I started again and then ran $ beet imp /path/to/folder but that invokes the autotagger, which I don’t need.

Is there anyway to skip the autotagger (from Musicbrainz/Discogs) and jump straight to compare what is already in the database?

I apologies if this has been asked before and will delete if this is a duplicate too.

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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:** [May 29, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/importing-better-quality-music/1316/2 "2020-05-29T11:14:11Z")

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Indeed; the non-autotagged version does not do duplicate warnings. (It’s meant to be non-interactive.) You can use the `duplicates` plugin to find them after the fact, though!

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**Author:** ![kennyboy1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3be4f8/32.png) [@kennyboy1978](https://discourse.beets.io/u/kennyboy1978)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/importing-better-quality-music/1316/3 "2020-05-29T12:25:25Z")

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Thank you, I thought I was missing something in my config file or a flag in the command. Scared to see what duplicates brings up now!