verrus/beets-plugin-featintitle

A plugin for beets by sampsyo : which cleans the artist field in ID3 tags to contain only the main artist.

beets-plugin-featintitle's Issues

incompatible with latest beets version beets version 1.1.0-beta.3

Artist fields containing an '&' character not yet implemented

A couple of artists have chosen to list their featuring artists with an & character.
e.g.:
Brad Paisley & Alison Krauss
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
Other artists have a 'band-name' with the same format.
e.g. :
Chase & Status
Mumford & Sons

The script now searches the artist field for "featuring ft with feat" and in the future i would like to add & . The straightforward approuch to just add the & to the regex will not work for how do you check if this is the actual recording artist

"With" should'nt be cut if present in the beginning of the artist field

When parsing the artist "Within Temptation", the plugin remove the entire artist field and append "feat.in Temptation" to all the track titles. This should be really easy to fix.

Thanks :)

If the track does not exist causes errors

Added the following line at 46

                pathInTitle  = track.__getattr__("path")

and then update the if and elif lines:
New Line 47
if featInTitle==None and regxRes[0].strip()==track.getattr("albumartist").strip() and pathInTitle:
New Line 52
elif featInTitle!=None and regxRes[0].strip()==track.getattr("albumartist").strip() and pathInTitle:

Thanks Andrew.

Should be integrated in the import process

Currently, the ftintitle step must be run after the importation. If one imports his music folder again, every change made by the plugin will be lost, and it can take a huge time to retag all the songs.

It would be awesome to have this plugin integrated in the import step. I don't know if it's currently possible with Beets plugin architecture, it's more an idea than a real feature request. I'll dig into it if I have some time!

Issue when changing artist names

When running beet ftintitle, I have many errors like this one:

/Adele/19/22 - Many Shades of Black.mp3
artist: Adele & The Raconteurs -> Adele
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/beet", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('beets==1.3.1', 'console_scripts', 'beet')()
  File "/usr/share/beets/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 773, in main
    _raw_main(args)
  File "/usr/share/beets/beets/ui/__init__.py", line 765, in _raw_main
    subcommand.func(lib, suboptions, subargs)
  File "/usr/share/beets/beetsplug/ftintitle.py", line 119, in func
    ft_in_title(item)
  File "/usr/share/beets/beetsplug/ftintitle.py", line 105, in ft_in_title
    update_metadata(item, feat_part)
  File "/usr/share/beets/beetsplug/ftintitle.py", line 58, in update_metadata
    item.artist_sort, _ = split_on_feat(item.artist_sort)  # Strip featured.
  File "/usr/share/beets/beetsplug/ftintitle.py", line 33, in split_on_feat
    1,  # Only split on the first "feat".
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 167, in split
    return _compile(pattern, flags).split(string, maxsplit)
TypeError: expected string or buffer

Is it possible to find out what happens?

Thanks.