This is still giving me trouble. I don’t know what to do at this point. My plan is exactly as outlined as @indotoonster: first do a quiet pass and then do a thorough pass of the albums which were skipped.
First pass:
$ beet import V:\ -q -i -l R:\Vulture.txt
Subsequent passes:
$ beet import V:\ -i -l R:\Vulture.txt
I’ve tried this on smaller batches of my whole library with success using incremental_skip_later: yes. After running overnight on my entire library however, beets will read through every file (not just the ones it has skipped).
Here’s an example output of the second pass after running first in incremental mode:
$ beet import V:\ -i -l R:\Vulture.txt
V:\ (1 items)
Tagging:
Floating Points - King Bromeliad / Montparnasse
URL:
https://www.discogs.com/Floating-Points-King-Bromeliad-Montparnasse/release/8610087
(Similarity: 92.4%) (missing tracks) (Discogs, File, 2014, UK, Eglo Records)
Missing tracks (1/2 - 50.0%):
! Montparnasse (# 2) (11:10)
[A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort? s
^This had already matched on the first pass, but beets is trying to process it again as though it were a new item.
V:\(1978) Wilfred Luckie - My Thing {2018 Numero - NUM5428DIG1} [WEB FLAC] (1 items)
Tagging:
Wilfred Luckie - My Thing
URL:
https://www.discogs.com/Wilfred-Luckie-My-Thing/release/5361638
(Similarity: 92.4%) (missing tracks) (Discogs, Vinyl, 1978, Trinidad & Tobago, Luckie, H-09)
Missing tracks (1/2 - 50.0%):
! Wait For Me (# 2)
[A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort? s
^ This was an item which was already skipped (appearing in the log), and the behavior I would expect using incremental and incremental_skip_later
V:\(1980) with Paul Horn - Reflections (4 items)
Correcting tags from:
Laura Allan - Reflections
To:
Laura Allan with Paul Horn - Reflections
URL:
https://www.discogs.com/Laura-Allan-with-Paul-Horn-Reflections/release/2383037
(Similarity: 90.9%) (artist) (Discogs, Vinyl, 1980, US, Unity Records (10), UR 707)
This album is already in the library!
Old: 4 items, FLAC, 665kbps, 39:22, 190.4 MiB
New: 4 items, FLAC, 665kbps, 39:22, 190.6 MiB
[S]kip new, Keep both, Remove old, Merge all? s
^This was already matched, but beets detected a size difference between the two versions, even though nothing was modified.
V:\(1999) Symbiotics (8 items)
Correcting tags from:
Porter Ricks - Symbiotics
To:
Porter Ricks : Techno Animal - Symbiotics
URL:
https://www.discogs.com/Porter-Ricks-Techno-Animal-Symbiotics/release/94333
(Similarity: 93.7%) (artist) (Discogs, CD, 1999, Germany, Force Inc. Music Works, FIM-1-035)
This album is already in the library!
Old: 8 items, MP3, 233kbps, 58:42, 97.7 MiB
New: 8 items, MP3, 233kbps, 58:42, 97.7 MiB
[S]kip new, Keep both, Remove old, Merge all? s
^A similar example, however, there appears to be no difference in size.
My config is as follows:
# Beets configuration --------------------------------------------------------
directory: R:/Vulture
library: R:/Vulture.db
import:
# write metadata to music files
write: yes
# move imported files from source to the music directory
move: no
copy: yes
delete: no
# use auto-tagging where possible
# do not require confirmation on strong matches
autotag: yes
timid: no
resume: no
incremental_skip_later: yes
none_rec_action: ask
log:
quiet: no # enable with command line option
quiet_fallback: skip
default_action: apply
singletons: no
languages: en
detail: no
flat: no
# use the release-date of the original (first) release of an album?
original_date: yes
# on multi-disk releases, assign track numbers for the whole album.
# If "per disk", make sure tracknames do not collide ("paths" setting).
per_disc_numbering: no
# files matching these patterns are deleted from source after import
clutter: ["Thumbs.DB", ".DS_Store", "*.m3u", ".pls", "*.jpg", "*.png"]
# files/directories matching one of these patterns are ignored during import
ignore: [".*", "*~", "System Volume Information"]
# Paths ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Paths and filenames for music files
# relative to music directory
paths:
default: %asciify{$albumartist} - %asciify{$album} [%asciify{$original_year}] [%asciify{$label} - %asciify{$catalognum}] ($format) %aunique{} /$track %asciify{$title}
singleton: %asciify{$artist} - %asciify{$album} [%asciify{$original_year}] [%asciify{$label} - %asciify{$catalognum}] ($format) %aunique{} /$track %asciify{$title}
comp: Various Artists - %asciify{$album} [%asciify{$original_year}] [%asciify{$label} - %asciify{$catalognum}] ($format) %aunique{} /$track %asciify{$title}
# replace special characters in generated filenames
replace:
'[\\/]': _
'^\.': _
'[\x00-\x1f]': _
'[<>:"\?\*\|]': _
'\.$': _
'\s+$': ''
path_sep_replace: _
# filename for the album art
art_filename: cover # results in "cover.jpg"
max_filename_length: 0 # unlimited
# General --------------------------------------------------------------------
# use mutliple threads during import
threaded: yes
timeout: 5.0
verbose: no
# User Interface -------------------------------------------------------------
color: yes
list_format_item: %upper{$artist} - $album - $track. $title
list_format_album: %upper{$albumartist} - $album
time_format: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
terminal_encoding: utf8
ui:
terminal_width: 80
length_diff_thresh: 10.0
# Auto Tagger ----------------------------------------------------------------
match:
strong_rec_thresh: 0.3 # match 70% or better for auto import
medium_rec_thresh: 0.25
rec_gap_thresh: 0.25
max_rec:
missing_tracks: medium
unmatched_tracks: medium
distance_weights:
source: 2.0
artist: 3.0
album: 3.0
media: 1.0
mediums: 1.0
year: 1.0
country: 0.5
label: 0.5
catalognum: 0.5
albumdisambig: 0.5
album_id: 5.0
tracks: 2.0
missing_tracks: 0.9
unmatched_tracks: 0.6
track_title: 3.0
track_artist: 2.0
track_index: 1.0
track_length: 2.0
track_id: 5.0
preferred:
countries: []
media: []
original_year: yes
ignored: []
track_length_grace: 10
track_length_max: 30
# Plugins --------------------------------------------------------------------
plugins: [
discogs,
fetchart,
lastgenre,
scrub,
mbsync,
mpdupdate,
missing,
duplicates
]
# Plugins Config -------------------------------------------------------------
discogs:
source_weight: 0.0
lastgenre:
whitelist: \python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\beetsplug\lastgenre\genres.txt
canoncical: \python\python37-32\lib\site-packages\beetsplug\lastgenre\genres-tree.yaml
fallback: ''
source: artist
fetchart:
auto: yes
maxwidth: 1200
cautious: yes
cover_names: cover folder front album
sources:
- filesystem
- coverart
- itunes
- amazon
- albumart
- google
- '*'
replaygain:
auto: yes
overwrite: yes
albumgain: no
scrub:
auto: yes
missing:
format: $albumartist - $album - $track - $title
count: no
total: no
duplicates:
checksum: no # expensive
importadded:
preserve_mtimes: yes
preserve_write_mtimes: yes
inline:
album_fields:
wcdbitrate: |
total = 0
for item in items:
total += item.bitrate
abr = total / len(items) / 1000
if abr > 480:
return 'FLAC'
elif abr < 480 and abr >= 320:
return '320'
elif abr < 320 and abr >= 220:
return 'V0'
elif abr < 215 and abr >= 170 and abr != 192:
return 'V2'
elif abr == 192:
return '192'
elif abr < 170:
return abr
Am I missing something obvious? I’m so close to having the setup perfect! Thanks in advance 
