List albums / track by format and or bitrate

[catap]

Let assume that I have huge library where half of them in lossless like flac.

How can I find everything which is in mp3, ogg, m4a and similar formats?

[wisp3rwind]

I don't think there's a direct query to do so, but a regex query on the format field should work (untested!):

beet list "format::(mp3|m4a|...)"

You could use

beet list -f '$format' | sort | uniq

to figure out which formats to include in the regex first.

Maybe a range query on the bitrate field is useful, too.

[catap]

@wisp3rwind maybe you now a way to exclude all flac files? :)

[wisp3rwind]

Invert the query: https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/query.html#query-term-negation

[catap]

BTW -format:mp3 doesn't work but ^format:mp3 works.

[wisp3rwind]

That's probably due to ambiguities when parsing the command line, which is described in the docs at the link.

[catap]

Anyway, this is still quite tricky.

Maybe it is possible to aggregate author and/or almbums by used format and bitrate?

[wisp3rwind]

Maybe it is possible to aggregate author and/or almbums by used format and bitrate?

Pretty sure that this can't be done right now, but sounds like a nice idea for a new plugin :)

[catap]

@sampsyo shall I create a formal Issue with feature request?

[sampsyo]

Before filing a feature request, I think it would be great to discuss a little more in this thread exactly what that feature would do. It's not yet clear to me exactly what "aggregate" means in this context.

[catap]

After a thinking a while I see that it is one time features, and I can't make it in generic way.