Music from Spotify not being tagged on import

[lukebarone]

I have a thousand songs from Spotify saved. I attempt to import it into beets, and it moves everything into Compilations/[2]/${trackNumber} ${trackName}.mp3. When I run beet ls -f "[$format] $album ($year) - $artist - $title" | sort | uniq, I get only one line:

[]  () -  -

... indicating that the files are imported, but data is not populating.

The original files are in one mass folder, named ${artist} - ${trackName}.mp3. My goal was to get album art embedded into the files, which is what turned me to beets in the first place.

Reading further, I realize that beets expects folders of albums, not one massive folder of MP3s. Is there a way to get beets to import the music with the embedded ID3 tags, and read that info into its database?

[arsaboo]

Please paste your config. There is something wrong with your paths

[lukebarone]

directory: ~/Music
library: ~/.config/beets/musiclibrary.db
import:
  copy: yes
plugins:
  - musicbrainz
  - fromfilename
  - spotify
  - fetchart
  - lyrics
  - lastgenre
spotify:
  client_id: SECRET
  client_secret: SECRET

[semohr]

The original files are in one mass folder, named ${artist} - ${trackName}.mp3. My goal was to get album art embedded into the files, which is what turned me to beets in the first place.

How did you run your initial import process? I would assume that beet import -g should work. Have you tried copying an initial small batch of audio files into another folder and run the import on that chunk instead of the mass folder?

[lukebarone]

I selected 12 files, and moved them to a new folder. I ran beet import -g . while in the folder. I answered the questions about which album each song was part of, and it moves the songs to their own artist/album folder, and has a cover.jpg file for each album.

My goal was to have the album art embedded into the MP3 file; do you know if beets supports that?

[auralluring]

i know i'm late to this but if you're still looking for how to embed album art, check out the embedart plugin