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beet — Manage the beets media library. More information: <https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/

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Problem

How to use the beet command: Manage the beets media library. More information: <https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/cli.html>.

Solution

beet — Manage the beets media library. More information: <https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/cli.html>.

Add music from a specific directory to the library, attempting to get correct tags for it from MusicBrainz:

beet import {{path/to/directory}}

Add a single song to the library, attempting to get correct tags for it from MusicBrainz:

beet import {{[-s|--singletons]}} {{path/to/file}}

Query library:

beet list {{query}}

Show entire library statistics:

beet stats

Show statistics for a specific query:

beet stats {{query}}

Code Snippets

Add music from a specific directory to the library, attempting to get correct tags for it from MusicBrainz

beet import {{path/to/directory}}

Add a single song to the library, attempting to get correct tags for it from MusicBrainz

beet import {{[-s|--singletons]}} {{path/to/file}}

Query library

beet list {{query}}

Show entire library statistics

beet stats

Show statistics for a specific query

beet stats {{query}}

Context

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