Info Plugin¶
The info
plugin provides a command that dumps the current tag values for
any file format supported by beets. It works like a supercharged version of
mp3info or id3v2.
Enable the info
plugin in your configuration (see Using Plugins) and
then type:
$ beet info /path/to/music.flac
and the plugin will enumerate all the tags in the specified file. It also accepts multiple filenames in a single command-line.
You can also enter a query to inspect music from your library:
$ beet info beatles
If you just want to see specific properties you can use the
--include-keys
option to filter them. The argument is a
comma-separated list of simple glob patterns where *
matches any
string. For example:
$ beet info -i 'title,mb*' beatles
Will only show the title
property and all properties starting with
mb
. You can add the -i
option multiple times to the command
line.
Additional command-line options include:
--library
or-l
: Show data from the library database instead of the files’ tags.--summarize
or-s
: Merge all the information from multiple files into a single list of values. If the tags differ across the files, print[various]
.--format
or-f
: Specify a specific format with which to print every item. This uses the same template syntax as beets’ path formats.--keys-only
or-k
: Show the name of the tags without the values.