# Time to rethink path formats?

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/time-to-rethink-path-formats/1402>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/time-to-rethink-path-formats/1402 "2020-07-15T21:13:41Z")\
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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:** [July 16, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/time-to-rethink-path-formats/1402/3 "2020-07-16T11:19:47Z")

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Ah, I had forgotten we had recently discussed this possibility and found a tricky way to do it:

> [@Using template functions with the inline plugin](https://discourse.beets.io/t/using-template-functions-with-the-inline-plugin/1267/3):
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> Changed my code to initial: | import beets.plugins the\_func = beets.plugins.template\_funcs()['the'] the\_artist = the\_func(albumartist\_sort or artist\_sort or albumartist or artist or '\_') return the\_artist[0].upper() And this works like a charm. Thanks!

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