Paths: Sort by somes specific genres, place the rest in a single folder

[Gwnn]

Hello.

First : sorry for my English - I’m not fluent; my native language is French.
Second: I use an online translator. I hope I get a good translation.
One more and final warning: I'm not a computer scientist... it's just a hobby.

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I’m trying out Beets on a Debian 13 Linux PC. Beets is installed in a Python3 environment.
I'm more or less getting what I want. The basics of this software are fine. But ...

I’d like to sort my music by “Genre,” e.g., Techno, Classical, and Jazz. All other genres would be redirected to an Other/ folder.

So, based on my library imported with Beets to a destination, I’d like to have this structure for each genre (here, Jazz) + the “Other” folder:

• Jazz/
• Jazz/Compilations/
• Jazz/Singletones/
• (...)
• Other/
• Other/Compilations/
• Other/Singletones/
• Audiobooks/
• Soundtracks/

(...) : Same as Jazz for Techno and Classical Music.
Audiobooks/ and Soundtracks/ don’t pose any configuration issues for me. They’re just included as examples.

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In my Beets configuration (~/.config/beets/config.yaml), I have the following defined for our purposes:

library: PathToMyMusicFolder/Audiofileslibrary.db
directory: PathToMyMusicFolder/Musiclibrary
import:
    write: yes
    copy: yes
    from_scratch: no
    log: /media/crp/Crucial_X10/Musiclibrary/Databeets/Audiofiles.log
    autotag: yes
    # (...)
plugins: lastgenre ...
va_name: ‘Various_Artists’
singleton: true
comp: true
lastgenre:
    auto: yes
    canonical: yes
    whitelist: yes
    prefer_specific: yes
    force: yes
    keep_existing: no
    count: 1
    source: album
    title_case: yes
Paths: 
    default: (???)
    singleton: (???)
    comp: (???)
    albumtype:soundtrack: Soundtracks/[$year] %capitalize{$album}%aunique{} $atypes/%capitalize{$album}%aunique{} - $track - $artist - %capitalize {$title}
    albumtype:audiobook: Audiobooks/.../... - ... - ...
# (...)

I tried various options using:

• the Inline plugin (and too with a Python script “genre_path.py” - new plugin with the configuration mappings written)
• album_field
• bucket (this plugin isn't meant for that)
• %first{$genres}
• %ifdef{field,truetext,falsetext} with/or %if{condition,truetext,falsetext}
• ...

But I didn't succeed.

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Perhaps a solution is possible using the command “beet modify genre_folder:Techno” to add a specific, custom field when the album has the “genre: Techno” via the ‘lastgenre’ plugin. And this Beet command would be applied via the “hook” plugin before being moved to the music directory.

?

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Do you have any recommendations for my sorting issue regarding certain genres (not all of them)?

Thank you ::
Best regards ::
Have a great day ::

[arsaboo]

Use something like this along with inline plugin:

paths:
    default: /data/music/$folder/$initial_char/$album%aunique{album year,,[]} ($year)/$album ($year) - $title
    singleton: /data/music/$folder/$initial_char/$album%aunique{album year,,[]} ($year)/$album ($year) - $title
    comp: /data/music/$folder/$initial_char/$album%aunique{album year,,[]} ($year)/$album ($year) - $title
    albumtype_soundtrack: /data/music/$folder/$initial_char/$album%aunique{album year,,[]} ($year)/$album ($year) - $title

item_fields:
   folder: |
      folder = 'Hindi Music'
      for g in genres:
          gl = g.lower()
          if gl == 'rajasthani':
              folder = 'Rajasthani'
              break
          elif gl == 'indian classical':
              folder = 'Classical Sorted'
              break
      return folder