It is worth a go, just don't go in blind, as it were. Worth doing a manual sweep, as it will only replace what you want.May try this program when I get home, though after reading some the previous issues, think I will copy a small portion of my library to a portable drive and see how it goes.
Not letting it mess up all 250Gb+ of my music. Took years to rip all them and digging all the vinyl and CDs out is not something I want to do again.
if your plan is to export to a external drive, I would recommend it manual and use it to import to your ext drive from your main collection.
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beet -d /mnt/media/ext/mp3s/ import /home/user/mp3-collection/An_album
Not totally sure of the search algorithm it uses, best results were got by asking it, like this:
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musichole@gondolin:~$ beet -d /home/musichole/mp3s/ import /home/musichole/mp3s/Jamie\ Lidell/Jamie\ Lidell\ -\ Jim\ \(MP3\)/
/home/musichole/mp3s/Jamie Lidell/Jamie Lidell - Jim (MP3)
No matching release found for 10 tracks.
For help, see: https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/wiki/FAQ#wiki-nomatch
[U]se as-is, as Tracks, Skip, Enter search, enter Id, aBort? E
Artist: jamie lidell
Album: jim
Finding tags for album " - ".
Candidates:
1. Jamie Lidell - Jim [Warp, 2008] (25.0%)
2. Jamie Lidell - Jim [Warp, 2008] (25.0%)
3. Jamie Lidell - Multiply [Warp, 2005] (18.0%)
4. Jamie Lidell - Multiply Additions [Warp, 2006] (12.6%)
# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Enter search,
enter Id, aBort? 1
Correcting tags from:
(unknown album)
To:
Jamie Lidell - Jim
(Similarity: 25.0%)
* 01 - Another Day.mp3 (0) -> Another Day (1)
* 02 - Wait For Me.mp3 (0) -> Wait for Me (2)
As you can see I was importing back to the main collection, which in this case wiped the original.
I'm still going through and tidying up, I see that as exactly what I asked the prog to do.
And, more importantly - where is this fucking mixtape!? :)