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Quick beets import tip

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Starting with beets to manage and organise your music library? Read the ‘getting started‘ guide? An additional quick tip:

Import your first few albums individually using

beet import -t $album_directory

The -t flag is for timid(ly).

Why? If you’re like me, you might not be in 100% agreement with how MusicBrainz represents the match metadata; and -t will ask for confirmation which you can either accept ([Enter] or A) or reject (U for ‘Use as-is’).

If the first few matches are fine, you can drop the flag; if not, you can figure out how to finesse it to import files to your liking via beets‘s excellent plugins.

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