Open aereaux opened 3 years ago
Hi! Your report is rather sparse in details on your setup, could you provide versions for beets and beets-alternatives? The full configuration file might also be useful.
Is it correct that the steps to reproduce are:
1) Modify some data (e.g. beet mod <query> parentwork=foobar
)
2) beet alt update works
Maybe you could try whether such a small modification (using beet mod
) of the metadata (which shouldn't have any other side effects) is sufficient to trigger the issue?
In any case, you could well be right that symlink mode isn't in perfect shape: It is covered by our testsuite, but at least I personally have never used it, and I think most posts on this issue tracker are also about the "external files" mode.
Thanks for the quick response! Yeah, sorry, I wasn't entirely sure what all to include in the report.
Versions of packages: beets-git 1.4.9.r1031.gcbc045f1-1 beets-alternatives 0.10.1-1.1
I noticed that I wasn't using the latest version of this package, which looks like it includes a fix for symlink problems like the ones I've been having. I'll try to see if that fixes it.
This might also be related to https://github.com/geigerzaehler/beets-alternatives/issues/49 if you removed those items from the library and then added them again (doing a re-import would probably have the same effect).
Thanks, but I don't think it's that, I haven't removed items from my library in a long time.
I have the same problem, but I think it's because of my syncing setup. I think the easiest solution would be to add a --force
or --replace
option that replaces the file if it exists
Not sure how much the symlink mode is used, but I'm encountering a couple problems with it. The most reproducible is this one:
Error: File exists during link of paths /home/user/music/beets/classical/William Walton; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn/Symphony no. 1 _ Orb & Sceptre _ Crown Imperial/05 Crown Imperial.flac, /home/user/music/beets/classical-works/Walton, William/1937 - Crown Imperial/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, André Previn/05 Crown Imperial.flac
As far as I can tell I think this happens when the source file has changed.Here's my config section: