How to import instrumentals?

[exislow]

Currently I do struggle with importing instrumentals. Most of the time the Auto Tagger thinks, this is the full track (with vocals) and tries to remove the suffix (Instrumental). If I accept this, I will end up with false positive duplicates in the DB.

Anyway... importing Instrumentals takes a lot of time, since I need to answer the AutoTagger questions and tell "Use as it is". Is there a better way to import and mark instrumentals?

Can I design a path rule maybe which will move all albums / files suffixed with (Instrumental) to a specific folder?

[RollingStar]

Sounds like a job for a plugin or code change.

This might be a place to look:

beets/beets/autotag/hooks.py

Line 249 in 018396c

def string_dist(str1, str2):

[wisp3rwind]

It seems that musicbrainz can capture this information in principle (cf. https://musicbrainz.org/release/c7dbec81-80e6-4f9e-89be-8cd773e58c1b where tracks on the second disc are tagged as "instrumental recording of ..."). We could think about adding a boolean instrumental field.

[exislow]

This is great. Would appreciate it, if somebody could extend beets with this functionality.