Plugins

Plugins can extend beets’ core functionality. Plugins can add new commands to the command-line interface, respond to events in beets, augment the autotagger, or provide new path template functions.

Using Plugins

To use a plugin, you have two options:

  • Make sure it’s in the Python path (known as sys.path to developers). This just means the plugin has to be installed on your system (e.g., with a setup.py script or a command like pip or easy_install).
  • Set the pluginpath config variable to point to the directory containing the plugin. (See Command-Line Interface.)

Then, set the plugins option in your config.yaml file, like so:

plugins: mygreatplugin someotherplugin

The value for plugins can be a space-separated list of plugin names or a YAML list like [foo, bar].

You can see which plugins are currently enabled by typing beet version.

Plugins Included With Beets

There are a few plugins that are included with the beets distribution. They’re disabled by default, but you can turn them on as described above.

Autotagger Extensions

Metadata

Path Formats

  • Inline Plugin: Use Python snippets to customize path format strings.
  • Rewrite Plugin: Substitute values in path formats.
  • The Plugin: Move patterns in path formats (i.e., move “a” and “the” to the end).

Interoperability

Miscellaneous

Other Plugins

Here are a few of the plugins written by the beets community:

  • beetFs is a FUSE filesystem for browsing the music in your beets library. (Might be out of date.)
  • A cmus plugin integrates with the cmus console music player.
  • featInTitle moves featured artists from the artist tag to the title tag.

Writing Plugins

If you know a little Python, you can write your own plugin to do almost anything you can imagine with your music collection. See the guide to writing beets plugins.

Project Versions

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