Modifying tags with flexible attributes

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Hi!
I’m trying to populate a (custom) tag field with the value of a flexible attribute. I’m using beets on Win10.
In this specific case, I populated my library with playcounts from last.fm which are stored within the attribute “play_count”. But whenever I try to pass the “play_count” value to another field by e.g.:

beet modify artist=$play_count

it passes the string “$play_count” to the field, instead of its value. How can I pass the actual value of the flexible attribute to a different field?

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Hello! It’snot yet possible to do that, sadly. Please see:

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Ah thank you, that’s unfortunate to hear.
Is there any workaround to add the playcounts to the files?

4

You can always try writing your own plugin!

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Too bad, that goes beyond my abilities :confused:

Thank you anyway!

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i have written a plugin to do this exact thing for my iTunes catalog. iTunes does not show the label tag and i like to see that. so i copy the data from the label tag to the composer tag on import. i wrote a plugin to do this. it could be easily modified to do what you want. i would be glad to share it.

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I’d be really happy to try your plugin @mattbarnicle
Trying to write internal db fields such as ‘mood_acoustic’ to the media file tag.

Thanks!

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Great! The code is hosted on Github. I think the examples I provided should explain how to use the plugin. But let me know if you need any help.

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Thanks a lot for the reply!
I’ve tried to get it to work but keep on getting - KeyError: ‘mood_acoustic’
Trying these config lines:
tagcopy:
only_empty_tags: no
copy_tags: MD_ACOUSTIC=mood_acoustic