Support #764
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 8 years ago
This is a guide on how I setup beets on FreeBSD to tidy up my music library. h2. Prepare the Environment * Make sure the system is up to date <pre> pkg update && pkg upgrade </pre> h2. Install Beets * Install Beets: <pre> pkg install beets </pre> #* *NOTE*: @audio/beets@ has many useful additions in its port package. I found *BEETPORT*, *CHROMA*, *DISCOGS*, *ECHONEST*, *FETCHART*, *FFMPEG*, *IMAGEMAGICK*, *LASTFM*, *LYRICS*, and *MPDSTATS* to be useful: <pre> pkg install py27-discogs-client py27-setuptools27 py27-oauth2 py27-httplib2 py27-requests py27-mpd py27-mutagen py27-pyacoustid chromaprint cmake libarchive lzo2 cmake-modules py27-sphinx py27-Jinja2 py27-babel py27-pytz py27-MarkupSafe py27-docutils py27-pygments py27-pylast py27-unidecode py27-sqlite3 py27-enum34 py27-pyechonest py27-yaml ImageMagick-nox11 gmake libltdl pkgconf jbigkit jpeg lcms2 tiff libfpx liblqr-1 pcre libwmf-nox11 png openjpeg webp fftw3 ghostscript9-base autoconf autoconf-wrapper m4 help2man gmake-lite p5-Locale-gettext jbig2dec svgalib cups-image cups-client mDNSResponder gsfonts libpaper py27-munkres glib flac mp3val py27-mpd2 python27 py27-pathlib py27-xdg python2 portmaster audio/beets </pre> * Create a directory for the beets library metadata database: <pre> mkdir ~/.beets </pre> h3. Using Beets * Edit the config: <pre> beet config -e </pre> #* And add the following to configure an existing music library: <pre> directory: ~/music library: ~/.beets/musiclibrary.blb import: copy: no </pre> * Import the library to correct the music file tags: <pre> beet import ~/music </pre> #* NOTE: For larger libraries, using the @-q@ (quiet) flag. This will allow beets to update the music file metadata without asking for user input: <pre> beet import -q ~/music </pre> * Adding more music later on can be done with the @-c@ flag which will copy and correct music from @~/some_great_album@ folder to the @~/music@ folder: <pre> beet import -c ~/some_great_album </pre> h2. Resources * http://beets.readthedocs.org/en/v1.3.17/guides/main.html