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Beets

Setup configuration file:

# ~/.config/beets/config.yaml
directory: ~/music
library: ~/music/library.db
import:
  copy: no   # Do not copy files into directory
  move: no   # Do not delete original files
  write: yes # Write tags to file
plugins: duplicates fetchart embedart

Import music

Using --incremental to avoid scanning the already imported albums.

beet import ~/music --incremental

To re-scan the music library:

beet update

Download art files into a cover.jpg file

Requires plugin: fetchart.

beet fetchart

Embed art into files

Requires plugin: embedart & fetchart.

beet embedart

Scan for duplicates

Requires plugin duplicates.

Use -p to show the path to the duplicates instead of the name.

beet duplicates -p