Regex query across all fields

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Trying to weed out tracks with acousticbrainz values stored as strings as per this issue:

I’m having trouble getting the query right to search all fields:

beet list -f ‘$path’ “:[1].[0-9]+e-[0-9]{2}$”

produces no results, but:

beet list -f ‘$path’ “mood_aggressive::[2].[0-9]+e-[0-9]{2}$”

will show tracks with these string values for mood_aggressive (or any single specified field). Am I doing something wrong?

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Using a single leading : will search across all the default fields (i.e., the same set of fields as a plain, non-prefixed query). For example:

$ beet ls ':99[\d\s]'
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles - 1991
DJ Danger Mouse - The Grey Album - 99 Problems

We don’t currently have a way to express a query that searches across all fields, including those flexible attributes defined by a plugin. That could be an interesting addition, though!

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I knew there was something I musn’t have been understanding. It’d be great if that could be incorporated in a future release.