beets

Beets is the media library management system for obsessive music geeks.

The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes. It then provides a suite of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

Here's an example of beets' brainy tag corrector doing its thing:

$ beet import ~/music/ladytron
Tagging:
    Ladytron - Witching Hour
(Similarity: 98.4%)
 * Last One Standing      -> The Last One Standing
 * Beauty                 -> Beauty*2
 * White Light Generation -> Whitelightgenerator
 * All the Way            -> All the Way...

Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can imagine for your music collection. Via plugins_, beets becomes a panacea:

Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: album art, lyrics, genres_, tempos_, ReplayGain_ levels, or acoustic fingerprints_.
Get metadata from MusicBrainz_, Discogs_, and Beatport_. Or guess metadata using songs' filenames or their acoustic fingerprints.
Transcode audio_ to any format you like.
Check your library for duplicate tracks and albums_ or for albums that are missing tracks_.
Clean up crufty tags left behind by other, less-awesome tools.
Embed and extract album art from files' metadata.
Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any browser that supports HTML5 Audio_.
Analyze music files' metadata from the command line.
Listen to your library with a music player that speaks the MPD_ protocol and works with a staggering variety of interfaces.

If beets doesn't do what you want yet, writing your own plugin_ is shockingly simple if you know a little Python.

.. _acoustic fingerprints: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/chroma.html

.. _album art: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/fetchart.html

.. _albums that are missing tracks: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/missing.html

.. _beatport: https://www.beatport.com

.. _discogs: https://www.discogs.com/

.. _duplicate tracks and albums: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/duplicates.html

.. _genres: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lastgenre.html

.. _html5 audio: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#the-audio-element

.. _lyrics: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lyrics.html

.. _mpd: https://www.musicpd.org/

.. _musicbrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/

.. _musicbrainz music collection: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Collections/

.. _plugins: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/

.. _replaygain: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/replaygain.html

.. _tempos: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/acousticbrainz.html

.. _transcode audio: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/convert.html

.. _writing your own plugin: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/dev/plugins/index.html

Install

You can install beets by typing pip install beets or directly from Github (see details here_). Beets has also been packaged in the software repositories_ of several distributions. Check out the Getting Started_ guide for more information.

.. _getting started: https://beets.readthedocs.org/page/guides/main.html

.. _here: https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#run-the-latest-source-version-of-beets

.. _software repositories: https://repology.org/project/beets/versions

Contribute

Thank you for considering contributing to beets! Whether you're a programmer or not, you should be able to find all the info you need at CONTRIBUTING.rst_.

.. _contributing.rst: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst

Learn more about beets at its Web site. Follow @b33ts on Mastodon for news and updates.

.. _@b33ts: https://fosstodon.org/@beets

.. _its web site: https://beets.io/

Contact

Encountered a bug you'd like to report? Check out our issue tracker_!
- If your issue hasn't already been reported, please open a new ticket_ and we'll be in touch with you shortly.
- If you'd like to vote on a feature/bug, simply give a :+1: on issues you'd like to see prioritized over others.
- Need help/support, would like to start a discussion, have an idea for a new feature, or would just like to introduce yourself to the team? Check out GitHub Discussions_!

.. _github discussions: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/discussions

.. _issue tracker: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues

.. _open a new ticket: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/issues/new/choose