First of all, thanks a lot for all that tremendous work (๑′ᴗ‵๑)
I have a huge library (as all of us I guess ^^), common albums, not very popular albums, soundtrack albums or compilation albums (various artists) I wan’t to reorganize thanks to beets, some of the albums are going in my genre folder as I wanted, but some of them are going in a _ (underscore) folder, I can’t understand why.
As I’m actually testing (and messing a lot) with a test folder library before using beets with its perfect configuration, is there any way to « reset » or clear library.db ?
Sometimes there are artists duplicates, I mean real ones with same band name, how do you guys manage that so you get the good one with its right genre ?
Sometimes, there is no genre in musicbrainz artist page, is there any way to put these album forlders in a special folder that tells me to manually manage it ?
beet --version
beets version 1.4.9
Python version 3.9.2
plugins: bpd, fetchart, lastgenre, lyrics
some of them are going in a _ (underscore) folder, I can’t understand why.
Check the FAQ and maybe your replace config. My guess is the genre is not ASCII-compliant (ASCII = anything on a keyboard, basically), and so it gets renamed to _.
Just delete the file, if I understand correctly. Move it somewhere safe if you aren’t sure.
Sometimes there are artists duplicates, I mean real ones with same band name, how do you guys manage that so you get the good one with its right genre ?
As in, two unrelated artists of the same name? You want to distinguish Michael Jackson the pop singer from Michael Jackson the didgeridoo player?
This is a last.fm problem. AFAIK they do not have any dedupe on their end for artists. See the page for Love for example: https://www.last.fm/music/Love/+wiki
Sometimes, there is no genre in musicbrainz artist page, is there any way to put these album forlders in a special folder that tells me to manually manage it ?