Every time I run beet update, I get the same list of changes. I’ve copied and diffed the output to verify–it’s the same every time. I have over 2200 lines of changes like the following: Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits - Glory Days albumartist: Al Green -> Bruce Springsteen genre: R&B/Soul ->…

I think the most likely explanation here is that one track on the album has different metadata from the remaining tracks. By default, beets thinks these album-level attributes should not vary across tracks, so after the update these non-uniformities get overridden. Maybe a beet write on this one al…

@adrian thanks for the suggestion. Apologies for the noob question, but how do I determine what files to beet write? If I run beet info "glory days", I don’t see anything tagged as Al Green, R&B/Soul, etc: $ beet info "glory days" /mnt/Beethoven/Music/Library/Bruce Springsteen/Greatest Hits [1975…

If I were you, I’d try beet write -a on the whole album? Maybe making a backup first just in case things go wrong…

Update repeatedly outputs the same changes

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zwiebelspaetzle January 21, 2021, 9:49pm 5

Thanks. I backed up my files, and ran beet write on the entire library. Now I’m not getting any repeating messages when I beet update.

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Update repeatedly outputs the same changes

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