beetbox/beets v1.3.18

beets 1.3.18

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This update adds a new hook that lets you integrate beets with command-line tools and an export that can dump data from the beets database as JSON. You can also automatically translate lyrics using a machine translation service.

The echonest plugin has been removed in this version because the API it used is shutting down. You might want to try the acousticbrainz instead.

Some of the larger new features:

• The new hook lets you execute commands in response to beets events.
• The new export can export data from beets' database as JSON. Thanks to @GuilhermeHideki.
• lyrics: The plugin can now translate the fetched lyrics to your native language using the Bing translation API. Thanks to @Kraymer.
• fetchart: Album art can now be fetched from fanart.tv.

Smaller new things:

• There are two new functions available in templates: %first and %ifdef. See template-functions.
• convert: A new album_art_maxwidth setting lets you resize album art while copying it.
• convert: The extension setting is now optional for conversion formats. By default, the extension is the same as the name of the configured format.
• importadded: A new preserve_write_mtimes option lets you preserve mtime of files even when beets updates their metadata.
• fetchart: The enforce_ratio option now lets you tolerate images that are almost square but differ slightly from an exact 1:1 aspect ratio.
• fetchart: The plugin can now optionally save the artwork's source in an attribute in the database.
• The terminal_encoding configuration option can now also override the input encoding. (Previously, it only affected the encoding of the standard output stream.)
• A new ignore_hidden configuration option lets you ignore files that your OS marks as invisible.
• web: A new values endpoint lets you get the distinct values of a field. Thanks to @sumpfralle. #2010

Fixes:

• Fix a problem with the stats command in exact mode when filenames on Windows use non-ASCII characters. #1891
• Fix a crash when iTunes Sound Check tags contained invalid data. #1895
• mbcollection: The plugin now redacts your MusicBrainz password in the beet config output. #1907
• scrub: Fix an occasional problem where scrubbing on import could undo the id3v23 setting. #1903
• lyrics: Add compatibility with some changes to the LyricsWiki page markup. #1912 #1909
• lyrics: Fix retrieval from Musixmatch by improving the way we guess the URL for lyrics on that service. #1880
• edit: Fail gracefully when the configured text editor command can't be invoked. #1927
• fetchart: Fix a crash in the Wikipedia backend on non-ASCII artist and album names. #1960
• convert: Change the default ogg encoding quality from 2 to 3 (to fit the default from the oggenc(1) manpage). #1982
• convert: The never_convert_lossy_files option now considers AIFF a lossless format. #2005
• web: A proper 404 error, instead of an internal exception, is returned when missing album art is requested. Thanks to
  @sumpfralle. #2011
• Tolerate more malformed floating-point numbers in metadata tags. #2014
• The ignore configuration option now includes the lost+found directory by default.
• acousticbrainz: AcousticBrainz lookups are now done over HTTPS. Thanks to @Freso. #2007