Plugin to set track numbers

[pimpsky]

Use case

I'm trying to use Beets to autonumber tracks in a folder or in a query according to the sort order. I acquainted my self with the documentation for Beets and was unable to find a similar feature. Mp3tag (windows only), my tagger of choice, is able to do this:

Kid3 (GUI & CLI) is able to do this as well:

Solution

I'm sure Beets devs wouldn't have any problem thinking of how to implement this, but if they want a proposal from me, I'd say to provide a command like beet autonumber [FirstTrackNumber] QUERY [SortOrder].

So that if there are just three tracks in the path ~/youtube-dl/bunch-of-unreleased-poorly-tagged-soundcloud-music/, with artist tags Aphex Twin, Tame Impala, and Fleet Foxes respectively, running this line: beet autonumber 1 'path=~/youtube-dl/bunch-of-unreleased-poorly-tagged-soundcloud-music/' artist+ would set the tracknumber to 1 for the Aphex Twin track tracknumber 2 for the Fleet Foxes track tracknumber 3 for the Tame Impala track

Alternatives

I couldn't find a plugin that does this in the Beets docs.

[sampsyo]

Sounds interesting! Marking this as a feature request.

[pimpsky]

Thank you for considering it!