# Unattended import with --search-id

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/unattended-import-with-search-id/2440>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [January 2, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/unattended-import-with-search-id/2440 "2024-01-02T17:23:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![4t6r8fgyuv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/e0b2c6/32.png) [@4t6r8fgyuv](https://discourse.beets.io/u/4t6r8fgyuv)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/unattended-import-with-search-id/2440/1 "2024-01-02T17:23:45Z")

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Hi everyone,

I want to be able to run completely unattended import tasks. For that, I have individual tracks and I add the Spotify album ID to pass to the import command with `--search-id`.

That works really well as it very quickly matches the track I’m importing with the correct Spotify album. The issue is that even though I am 100% sure that the match is good (as I pass the correct album ID), sometimes beets reports a low enough match so that it still asks for confirmation.

I tried to pass -q but then it skips the import.

How can I default to `Apply` so that I can have a fully automated import?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![4t6r8fgyuv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/e0b2c6/32.png) [@4t6r8fgyuv](https://discourse.beets.io/u/4t6r8fgyuv)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/unattended-import-with-search-id/2440/2 "2024-01-02T18:52:14Z")

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I overlooked the docs multiple times. There’s a `quiet_fallback` option that can be added to the configuration with value `asis`, but then ignores the `--search-id` and `apply` as quiet fallback value is not valid. Is there some other way to achieve what I’m trying to achieve?

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**Author:** ![dg99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dg99](https://discourse.beets.io/u/dg99)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/unattended-import-with-search-id/2440/3 "2024-08-15T08:35:50Z")

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I also had the same problem.  
I added this to the beet configuration file:  
matches:  
max\_rec:  
missing\_tracks: strong  
unmatched\_tracks: strong  
strong\_rec\_thresh: 0.9

it’s not exactly what we’re looking for but let’s force beet’s autotag.  
I tried it and it works well