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A user contributed an awesome illustrated walkthrough for new beets users. beets.io/blog/walkthrough.ht…
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We’ve released beets v1.6.0: a first iteration in our attempt to make a release every 3 months. We have also (finally!!) left Python 2 behind. This version requires Python 3.6+. github.com/beetbox/beets/rel…

Release beets 1.6.0 · beetbox/beets

This release is our first experiment with time-based releases! We are aiming to publish a new release of beets every 3 months. We therefore have a healthy but not dizzyingly long list of new featur...

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We’re excited to (finally) announce the release of beets v1.5.0. github.com/beetbox/beets/rel…

Release beets 1.5.0 · beetbox/beets

This long overdue release of beets includes far too many exciting and useful features than could ever be satisfactorily enumerated. As a technical detail, it also introduces two new external librar...

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We’re picking a platform for chat among beets developers. Got an opinion? discourse.beets.io/t/choosin…

Choosing a developer chat platform

What is your preferred developer communication platform? poll Note I’m not a big fan of a non-maintainer hosted solution, but will add it if needed.

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There’s a discussion starting up on the forum about creating a roadmap for the future of the beets project. discourse.beets.io/t/project…

Project roadmap?

Is there a roadmap of planned features for Beets? There is some mention of new functionality like web UI and attachments in the wiki, but it looks fairly old. I’m not seeing evidence of how work...

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Ever wonder why you can query tracks and albums in beets, but not artists? Here’s a long backstory. discourse.beets.io/t/query-f…

Query for other things than tracks and albums? (E.g., artists?)

It’s a very reasonable question and an equally reasonable thing to want to do, but it’s not something that beets supports. And not because of any philosophical reason—just because the implementation...

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If you’ve ever wanted to contribute back to the beets project, here’s a way: help review some cool pull requests! discourse.beets.io/t/request…

Request for help: pull request review backlog!

Following up on my efforts to avoid being a single point of failure for the beets project, here’s a call for help from the community! We have something of a backlog of really awesome pull requests...

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It’s another release! (We’re working on doing these more often.) Get v1.4.9 at a package manager near you: github.com/beetbox/beets/rel…

Release beets 1.4.9 · beetbox/beets

This small update is part of our attempt to release new versions more often! There are a few important fixes, and we're clearing the deck for a change to beets' dependencies in the next ver...

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This took too long, but thanks for bearing with us! 1.4.8 is out, with too many new things to even begin to tweet. github.com/beetbox/beets/rel…

Release beets 1.4.8 · beetbox/beets

This release is far too long in coming, but it's a good one. There is the usual torrent of new features and a ridiculously long line of fixes, but there are also some crucial maintenance change...

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We’re considering forming a “core team” of project maintainers. Want to join up? discourse.beets.io/t/forming…

Forming a beets "core team"

Hi, everybody, To my utter shock, I’ve been working on beets for more than 10 years now. I’ve learned a ridiculous amount through developing beets and have deeply enjoyed meeting all of the people in...

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Check out version 1.4.7! There are lots of subtle improvements to the importer. github.com/beetbox/beets/rel…

Release beets 1.4.7 · beetbox/beets

This new release includes lots of new features in the importer and the metadata source backends that it uses. We've changed how the beets importer handles non-audio tracks listed in metadata so...

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Hacker News is discussing our nerdy blog post about filename encoding troubles. news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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The latest episode of @Podcast__init__ is an interview about beets and its future. podcastinit.com/beets-with-a…

Keeping The Beets with Adrian Sampson

Summary Maintaining a consistent taxonomy for your music library is a challenging and time consuming endeavor. Eventually you end up with a…

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Happy beets release day! Version 1.4.6 is out, featuring album merging/completion in the importer. github.com/beetbox/beets/rel…

Release beets 1.4.6 · beetbox/beets

The highlight of this release is "album merging," an oft-requested option in the importer to add new tracks to an existing album you already have in your library. This way, you no longer ...

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An oft-requested feature is now ready to test: you can merge partial albums into one while importing. github.com/beetbox/beets/pul…

Implement album merging for duplicates by udiboy1209 · Pull Request #2725 · beetbox/beets

Fixes #112 Would removing the album before running the merge task make sense? This code seems to work now but I think it gives problems when reimporting library with existing duplicate albums. The ...

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Thanks to @b33ts, I get to lovingly sit with my music (in the Derek Walcott sense) once every couple of months, the way "vinyl people" do.
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A beets contributor has started a Python module for CoW clones on filesystems like Btrfs and APFS. rubdos.be/2017/07/30/about-r…
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Feeling experimental? Maybe you can help us test a deep, technical change that should have no visible effect. github.com/beetbox/beets/pul…

Always use specific null values for fixed fields by sampsyo · Pull Request #2605 · beetbox/beets

This came out of an attempt to address the mysterious testing problems from #2563 and turned into a big old debacle. As it turns out, the problem came from calling Item.from_path and getting None f...

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We know it’s only been a few days, but we couldn’t wait. Version 1.4.5 is out now, with powerful date queries! 🎉🎧 github.com/beetbox/beets/rel…

Release beets 1.4.5 · beetbox/beets

Version 1.4.5 adds some oft-requested features. When you're importing files, you can now manually set fields on the new music. Date queries have gotten much more powerful: you can write precise...

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