- Update to 1.4.6:
* The highlight of this release is "album merging," an often requested
option in the importer to add new tracks to an existing album you already
have in your library. This way, you no longer need to resort to removing
the partial album from your library, combining the files manually, and
importing again.
* Here are the larger new features in this release:
* When the importer finds duplicate albums, you can now merge all the
tracks—old and new—together and try importing them as a single,
combined album.
* lyrics: The plugin can now produce reStructuredText files for beautiful,
readable books of lyrics.
* A new from_scratch configuration option makes the importer remove old
metadata before applying new metadata. This new feature complements the
zero and scrub plugins but is slightly different: beets clears out all
the old tags it knows about and only keeps the new data it gets from
the remote metadata source.
* There are also somewhat littler, but still great, new features:
* convert: A new no_convert option lets you skip transcoding items matching
a query. Instead, the files are just copied as-is.
* fetchart: A new quiet switch that only prints out messages when album art
is missing.
* mbcollection: You can configure a custom MusicBrainz collection via the
new collection configuration option.
* mbcollection: The collection update command can now remove albums from
collections that are longer in the beets library.
* fetchart: The clearart command now asks for confirmation before touching
your files.
* mpdstats: The plugin now correctly updates song statistics when MPD
switches from a song to a stream and when it plays the same song