Managing My Music Library with Beets

The documentation of the Tangara reminded me to check out a tool that has been collecting dust in my bookmarks for months: the powerful Beets!

What a mighty tool! You can have a look at my configuration that takes care of all my music library management needs:

• Clean up tags with data from MusicBrainz (that is Beets’ main proposition, no configuration needed for that)
• Properly name and organize files
• Replace special characters in files
• Fetch and embed cover art
• Delete certain ID3 fields
• Automatically convert lossless music files to 320 kbps MP3s on import

And that does not even cover the superb command line interface, Beets’ query language, and the vast plugin ecosystem.