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Quick beets import tip

Posted on Thursday, January 4th, 2018Thursday, January 4th, 2018 by Rob Hallam

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; […]

Scrollback / Terminal History in screen or byobu

Posted on Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 by Rob Hallam

This is another case of “should have read the manual”, but there are ways to see previous output in both screen and byobu. In screen: ctrl + a + [ In byobu: F7 These key combinations cause screen/byobu to enter copy mode, where you can navigate using vi keys, can set marks for copying using […]