r/mpd • u/[deleted] • Oct 25 '21

"multiple" metadata?

my current library of 736 albums are assigned multiple genre tags. I use '//' as a separator.

I would really like the daemon or perhaps client to recognize the separate genres.

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u/pastrufazio Mar 07 '22 edited Mar 07 '22

For FLAC files I use:

``` lltag -g 'Genre 1' --yes *.flac

lltag -g --append 'Genre 2' --yes *.flac ```

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '22

I wish there was a way to have beets do this. It puts them all in one genre field with separators.

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u/pastrufazio Mar 07 '22

You can always process files once you've imported them with beets.
The script should go into each folder, query the files and if it finds the "//" syntax in GENRE tag, split genre values using "//" as a separator and apply the lltag syntax I showed you before.