How to have beets segregate files based on albums.

[EchoShauf]

Hello, I have music that are categorized as best top hits of August, September, etc, Basically its a compilation of hits on a specific month or time.

These music files are in no way related to each other and is basically just done as a repack because of the monthly compilation.

When I import this using Beets import "C:\Users\Jericho\Downloads\Music\Best Hits of August". It gives me an option saying it could not detect album and suggest me to keep as a group , as is, as tracks. This only happens when I import folders like these.

How do I have beets, read everything as tracks, and automatically make a folder with the correct album the track is in and not have everything just under one folder.

picture included below.

[arogl]

You could use as-is, but you may want to add some meta data to the files for album and year so that beets can then put all the files into the folder.

You may just want to define a path like:

paths:
  default: ($year) $album/$artist - $title

It all depends on how you want your music stored.

[EchoShauf]

Sorry, I tried the as is but it put everything in one folder saying non album. what I want is something like this picture below. Where some of these songs also came from a collection of sort but it individually put them in their own folder like Artist>Album>Track while writing the metadata and albumart.

just cant figure out why some folders like the monthly ones are all in one album called non album or i guess singletons? if that is the right term.

plugins: fetchart embedart info scrub edit fromfilename chroma web missing lastgenre duplicates
directory: D:\Beets\Music
library: C:\Users\Jericho\AppData\Roaming\beets\library.db
art_filename: albumart
threaded: yes
original_date: no
per_disc_numbering: no
verbose: 0
asciify_paths: no
max_filename_length: 0

ignore_hidden: yes

paths:
    default: $albumartist/$album%aunique{}/$track $title
    singleton: Non-Album/$artist - $title
    comp: Compilations/$album%aunique{}/$track - $title
    albumtype_soundtrack: Soundtracks/$album/$track $title
 

import:
    write: yes
    copy: yes
    move: no
    link: no
    delete: no
    resume: ask
    incremental: no
    quiet_fallback: skip
    timid: no
    autotag: yes
    duplicate_action: ask
    
      

lastgenre:
    auto: yes
    source: album

embedart:
    auto: yes

fetchart:
    auto: yes
    cautious: yes
    cover_names: cover front art album folder back
    minwidth: 0
    enforce_ratio: 5%
    sources: filesystem coverart amazon albumart
    google_key: None.
    store_source: no

replaygain:
backend: gstreamer
auto: no

scrub:
    auto: yes

missing:
    count: no
    total: no
    album: no

duplicates:
    album: no
    checksum: ''
    copy: ''
    count: no
    delete: no
    format: ''
    full: no
    keys: []
    merge: no
    move: ''
    path: no
    tiebreak: {}
    strict: no
    tag: ''

pathfields: {}
album_fields: {}

edit:
    albumfields: album albumartist
    itemfields: track title artist album
    ignore_fields: id path

replace:
    '[\\/]': _
    '^\.': _
    '[\x00-\x1f]': _
    '[<>:"\?\*\|]': _
    '\.$': _
    '\s+$': ''
    '^\s+': ''

web:
    host: 0.0.0.0
    port: 8337
    
    ```

[EchoShauf]

Do i delete the singleton part? would that force beets to use default? and treat every music the need to use their own folder on the destination?

[EchoShauf]

for example, this is one of the folders i am trying to import.

is there a way to have beet not treat this as a whole album and instead focus on each track and separate them by the default path of artist, album, track?

or am i just SOL?

[arsaboo]

Import them as singletons and match each track. Spotify tag source should work well here.

[arogl]

Comment out the singleton path and using Track on import should work.

I thought you wanted the top 50 as an album 😃

[EchoShauf]

Hi, sorry, how would i import them just as a singleton ? do I delete the default? then just artist > album > track?

[arogl]

Delete the singleton in path or comment out with a # in your config file.

Try beet import -s <folder> or beet import <folder> and then select Tracks

[EchoShauf]

Man you are a genius.. I wish i have the brains to actually comprehend this stuff. Thank you so much for helping me.
one last question, what does the -s do? do I just do this for the type of folders I was talking about? or can I do this for everything else even complete correct albums?

and how do i do the spotify tag source?

[arogl]

The -s means import all as singletons, so you really only want that for the "Top 50" folders you want to sort through.

To enable the spotify plugin in your config.yaml file:

it might be just as easy as

plugins: spoitfy

or

plugins:
  - spotify

Depending on what other plugins are enabled

[EchoShauf]

oh okay. thanks :)