metermaid/beets-fetchartist

Artist Images for Beets

fetchartist

A plugin that fetches artist covers from last.fm and places them in the artist directories. They removed this functionality from their API a while ago so this library is parsing the HTML and manually grabbing the images off their site. Automatically fetching artist covers during import is not yet supported.

Installation

The plugin requires pylast and requests which can be installed using pip on the host machine.

sudo pip install pylast requests

Afterwards, beets has to be configured to use the plugin.

pluginpath:
  ~/fetchartist

plugins: fetchartist

Configuration

The configuration is located in the fetchartist section. Only the filename option exists at the moment, which will determine the filename of the images. It will default to empty and use the artist names.

fetchartist:
  filename: "poster"

Usage

This plugin should be the same as any other plugin for beets when using a recent version.

Usage: beet fetchartist [options]

Options:
-h, --help   show this help message and exit
-f, --force  force overwrite existing artist covers
-q, --quiet  quiet mode: do not log existing covers