Modify comment field - remove a string

[arsaboo]

Some of my tracks have strings such as © 2023 Zee Music Company, encoded using Handbrake. I would like to remove the , encoded using Handbrake portion so that the resulting comments would be © 2023 Zee Music Company.

Any guidance on how to construct the appropriate beet modify command?

[sampsyo]

Unfortunately, there's no built-in way to do complex string manipulations like that. One creative (although complicated) solution might be to use the new "formatted modify" functionality (#488) together with the inline plugin. That is, you could define an inline field like $truncated_comments to be comments.split(',', 1)[0] or similar and then do beet modify comments=$truncated_comments. Could work!!

[arsaboo]

Thanks @sampsyo that works 🎉