1.. image:: http://img.shields.io/pypi/v/beets.svg 2 :target: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/beets 3 4.. image:: http://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/beetbox/beets.svg 5 :target: https://codecov.io/github/beetbox/beets 6 7.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/beetbox/beets.svg?branch=master 8 :target: https://travis-ci.org/beetbox/beets 9 10 11beets 12===== 13 14Beets is the media library management system for obsessive-compulsive music 15geeks. 16 17The purpose of beets is to get your music collection right once and for all. 18It catalogs your collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes. 19It then provides a bouquet of tools for manipulating and accessing your music. 20 21Here's an example of beets' brainy tag corrector doing its thing:: 22 23 $ beet import ~/music/ladytron 24 Tagging: 25 Ladytron - Witching Hour 26 (Similarity: 98.4%) 27 * Last One Standing -> The Last One Standing 28 * Beauty -> Beauty*2 29 * White Light Generation -> Whitelightgenerator 30 * All the Way -> All the Way... 31 32Because beets is designed as a library, it can do almost anything you can 33imagine for your music collection. Via `plugins`_, beets becomes a panacea: 34 35- Fetch or calculate all the metadata you could possibly need: `album art`_, 36 `lyrics`_, `genres`_, `tempos`_, `ReplayGain`_ levels, or `acoustic 37 fingerprints`_. 38- Get metadata from `MusicBrainz`_, `Discogs`_, and `Beatport`_. Or guess 39 metadata using songs' filenames or their acoustic fingerprints. 40- `Transcode audio`_ to any format you like. 41- Check your library for `duplicate tracks and albums`_ or for `albums that 42 are missing tracks`_. 43- Clean up crufty tags left behind by other, less-awesome tools. 44- Embed and extract album art from files' metadata. 45- Browse your music library graphically through a Web browser and play it in any 46 browser that supports `HTML5 Audio`_. 47- Analyze music files' metadata from the command line. 48- Listen to your library with a music player that speaks the `MPD`_ protocol 49 and works with a staggering variety of interfaces. 50 51If beets doesn't do what you want yet, `writing your own plugin`_ is 52shockingly simple if you know a little Python. 53 54.. _plugins: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/ 55.. _MPD: http://www.musicpd.org/ 56.. _MusicBrainz music collection: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Collections/ 57.. _writing your own plugin: 58 http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/dev/plugins.html 59.. _HTML5 Audio: 60 http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/audio.html 61.. _albums that are missing tracks: 62 http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/missing.html 63.. _duplicate tracks and albums: 64 http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/duplicates.html 65.. _Transcode audio: 66 http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/convert.html 67.. _Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/ 68.. _acoustic fingerprints: 69 http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/chroma.html 70.. _ReplayGain: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/replaygain.html 71.. _tempos: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/acousticbrainz.html 72.. _genres: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lastgenre.html 73.. _album art: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/fetchart.html 74.. _lyrics: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/plugins/lyrics.html 75.. _MusicBrainz: http://musicbrainz.org/ 76.. _Beatport: https://www.beatport.com 77 78Install 79------- 80 81You can install beets by typing ``pip install beets``. Then check out the 82`Getting Started`_ guide. 83 84.. _Getting Started: http://beets.readthedocs.org/page/guides/main.html 85 86Contribute 87---------- 88 89Check out the `Hacking`_ page on the wiki for tips on how to help out. 90You might also be interested in the `For Developers`_ section in the docs. 91 92.. _Hacking: https://github.com/beetbox/beets/wiki/Hacking 93.. _For Developers: http://docs.beets.io/page/dev/ 94 95Read More 96--------- 97 98Learn more about beets at `its Web site`_. Follow `@b33ts`_ on Twitter for 99news and updates. 100 101.. _its Web site: http://beets.io/ 102.. _@b33ts: http://twitter.com/b33ts/ 103 104Authors 105------- 106 107Beets is by `Adrian Sampson`_ with a supporting cast of thousands. For help, 108please visit our `forum`_. 109 110.. _forum: https://discourse.beets.io 111.. _Adrian Sampson: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/ 112