Unattended import with –search-id

[a0g83agbc84]

Hi everyone,

I want to be able to run completely unattended import tasks. For that, I have individual tracks with the Spotify album ID in their filename, that I can use with import command with --search-id.

That works really well as it very quickly matches the track I’m importing with the correct Spotify album. The issue is that even though I am 100% sure that the match is good (as I pass the correct album ID), sometimes beets reports a low enough match so that it still asks for confirmation.

I tried to pass -q but then it skips the import. I tried quiet_fallback with only options are skip (default one) and asis, which completely ignores the album ID match. I, of course, tried apply as quiet_fallback option but that does not exist.

How can I default to apply so that I can have a fully automated import by using the --search-id option?

Thanks in advance!

[arsaboo]

You can adjust your matching threshold. You will want to increase strong_rec_thresh to a number that you feel comfortable with.

[a0g83agbc84]

Thanks for your answer. I just tried but it does not seem to work. I tried with very low values but it keeps skipping when running import with -q. Match is over 70% when running without -q.

match:
  strong_rec_thresh: 0.20  # auto-apply for matches of 10% or higher
  medium_rec_thresh: 0.20
  rec_gap_thresh: 0.20

Note that I tried with only strong_rec_thresh but didn't work, so I added the other ones for some extra tests. I can also see in the docs that it says: You can configure some aspects of the logic beets uses when automatically matching MusicBrainz results under the match: section., so it seems to only work with MusicBrainz, but unfortunately I can't get that ID automatically, whereas I can get the Spotify ID automatically.

Any other ideas?

[arsaboo]

You want to use large values in your case. What is the matching % that beets shows in the output?

[a0g83agbc84]

It does not matter, whether I use 0.01 or 0.99, when using import with -q it always skips.

Complete query:
beet import /data/music/downloads/This\ Is\ It.ogg --search-id 5OIWRUGXVlnY5gYP8KCRHV

Output:

/data/music/downloads/This Is It.ogg (1 items)
Tagging:
   Oh The Larceny - Blood Is Rebel
URL:
   https://open.spotify.com/album/5OIWRUGXVlnY5gYP8KCRHV
(Similarity: 74.3%) (missing tracks, source, tracks) (Spotify, 2019, Position Music)
* This Is It -> This Is It (source)
Missing tracks (5/6 - 83.3%):
! Another Level     (# 1) (3:10)
! Real Good Feeling (# 2) (3:14)
! Making Moves      (# 3) (3:03)
! Turn It Up        (# 4) (3:17)
! Stand Up          (# 6) (3:09)
[A]pply, More candidates, Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort, eDit, edit Candidates?

Output with -q:

/data/music/downloads/This Is It.ogg (1 items)
Skipping.

[a0g83agbc84]

@arsaboo I managed to get the behaviour I was looking for with the following configuration:

match:
  strong_rec_thresh: 1
  max_rec:
    missing_tracks: strong
    unmatched_tracks: strong

With this config, import with both -q and without it, automatically apply the --search-id album.

Thanks for pointing me at the right direction!