The PluginΒΆ
The the
plugin allows you to move patterns in path formats. It’s suitable,
for example, for moving articles from string start to the end. This is useful
for quick search on filesystems and generally looks good. Plugin DOES NOT
change tags. By default plugin supports English “the, a, an”, but custom
regexp patterns can be added by user. How it works:
The Something -> Something, The
A Band -> Band, A
An Orchestra -> Orchestra, An
To use plugin, enable it by including the
into plugins
line of your
beets config. The plugin provides a template function called %the
for use
in path format expressions:
paths:
default: %the{$albumartist}/($year) $album/$track $title
The default configuration moves all English articles to the end of the string, but you can override these defaults to make more complex changes:
the:
# handle "The" (on by default)
the: yes
# handle "A/An" (on by default)
a: yes
# format string, {0} - part w/o article, {1} - article
# spaces already trimmed from ends of both parts
# default is '{0}, {1}'
format: '{0}, {1}'
# strip instead of moving to the end, default is off
strip: no
# custom regexp patterns, space-separated
patterns: ...
Custom patterns are case-insensitive regular expressions. Patterns can be
matched anywhere in the string (not just the beginning), so use ^
if you
intend to match leading words.