Picard settings migrator

[fooness]

Anyone knows an automatic and easy way for migrating MusicBrainz Picard settings (especially file naming, tagging and scripting) to Beets?

The settings I talk about above are named: _file_naming_format, tagger_script, ignore_tags, windows_compatible_filenames, ascii_filenames, clear_existing_tags, id3v2encoding.

I think(!) most other settings aren’t that important.

Here’s an example configuration of Picard: http://lpaste.net/124392

[sampsyo]

There's no current automatic migrator. If you describe exactly how these could be mapped, though, maybe someone could be enticed to work on one!

[fooness]

At first, it seems Beets needs to have the ability to replace text and symbols in tags (also when using the autotagger). Like in the style of the 'replace' config option. Here's a great post about how this could be possible. https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/488#issuecomment-73104535

I’m not sure if that’s already clear, but it’s important that you can use those replace-patterns just for one (or some) tag fields.

In my picard config e.g. I’m replacing 'remix' with 'Remix' in ONLY album- and title-tags:

$set(album,$rreplace(%album%,\\bremix,Remix))
$set(title,$rreplace(%title%,\\bremix,Remix))

But not just titlecasing it, also:

$set(album,$rreplace(%album%,\\bRe-mix,Remix))
$set(title,$rreplace(%title%,\\bRe-mix,Remix))

$set(album,$rreplace(%album%,\\bRMX,Remix))
$set(title,$rreplace(%title%,\\bRMX,Remix))

[…]

Also, I’m able to set how much characters the date should have (I want four characters to be displayed):

$set(date,$left(%date%,4))

Furthermore, Beets needs to support unsetting/ignoring/deleting of tags, as I don't want all those MusicBrainz tags in my audio files:

$set(artistsort,$unset(%artistsort%))
$set(albumartistsort,$unset(%albumartistsort%))
$set(arranger,$unset(%arranger%))
$set(asin,$unset(%asin%))
$set(barcode,$unset(%barcode%))
$set(catalognumber,$unset(%catalognumber%))
$set(composer,$unset(%composer%))
$set(conductor,$unset(%conductor%))
$set(discsubtitle,$unset(%discsubtitle%))
$set(djmixer,$unset(%djmixer%))
$set(engineer,$unset(%engineer%))
$set(isrc,$unset(%isrc%))
$set(label,$unset(%label%))
$set(language,$unset(%language%))
$set(license,$unset(%license%))
$set(lyricist,$unset(%lyricist%))
$set(media,$unset(%media%))
$set(mixer,$unset(%mixer%))
$set(originaldate,$unset(%originaldate%))
$set(performer,$unset(%performer%))
$set(producer,$unset(%producer%))
$set(releasecountry,$unset(%releasecountry%))
$set(releasestatus,$unset(%releasestatus%))
$set(remixer,$unset(%remixer%))
$set(script,$unset(%script%))
$set(_recordingcomment,$unset(%_recordingcomment%))
$set(_releasecomment,$unset(%_releasecomment%))

PS: Sorry but I don't know any Python and I also don't know what you mean with mapped …

[sampsyo]

Thanks for the extra background. I'll mark this a feature request in case anyone would like to implement a Picard-compatible parser.