Activate chromaprint from command line

[das-s]

Hi, is there a way to activate the chroma plugin in the command line explicitly?

Idea is having the plugin loaded, but not enabled:

chroma:
  auto: no

And then (e.g. in certain directories with bad tags) enable the fingerprinting during the call to beet import via a command flag. Is that currently possible?

A search in the documentation, Discourse and Github has not shown any results for me.

[arsaboo]

beet fingerprint should generate fingerprints for items in your library (docs).

[das-s]

Thanks, but that only works after the import, right? I'd like to activate chromaprint only for certain imports with bad metadata /during the import process/, before they get into my library.

[arsaboo]

Don't think that is possible. Either you run it for all the tracks at the time of import or run it selectively post-import.

[sampsyo]

One option is to use an overlay configuration. That is, you could put into add_chromaprint.yaml:

chroma:
    auto: true

or similar, and then do beet -c add_chromaprint.yaml import ... to enable fingerprinting.

[das-s]

Thanks, that works. I did not realize that -c overlays the existing config (instead of replacing it).