Query album flexible attribute and get a list of tracks?

[pandatroubles]

Hello!

For flexible attributes set on albums, can I still query them to get a list of tracks?

For instance, I have started adding my personal rating of albums to a flexible attribute called albumrating. It made sense to me to use this field. So I can now get a list of albums with certain ratings using beet ls -a albumrating:2 for instance. I would like to use the same flexible attribute to get a list of tracks to output to a playlist.

Though upon reading this reply it does seem like what I’m wanting to do would require the flexattr albumrating to be set for each track, on reading this note:

@adrian

albums have their own metadata that partially overlaps with items; and sometimes it gets confusing because you don’t always know what’s associated with an item and what is associated with its album.

What would be the best way to be able to generate playlists based on my albumrating flexattr? To just rate the items instead?

[adrian]

I believe this PR does what you want?

Add fallback for item access to album's attributes

It’s a great PR and I am (or rather the community is) delinquent on reviewing and merging it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[pandatroubles]

@adrian

It’s a great PR and I am (or rather the community is) delinquent on reviewing and merging it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

It looks like this is what I’m after, yes! Thanks for pointing it out, I was negligent in searching the issues before posting. I wish I could help, I am however entirely code-illiterate. For now I have a few (manual) work-arounds.