Spotify fails to get song info

[UtkarshVerma]

Problem

Running this command in verbose (-vv) mode:

$ beet -vv spotify "in the lonely hour"
user configuration: /home/subaru/.config/beets/config.yaml
data directory: /home/subaru/.config/beets
plugin paths:
Sending event: pluginload
library database: /home/subaru/.cache/beets/library.db
library directory: /home/subaru/musics
Sending event: library_opened
spotify: Your beets query returned no items, skipping Spotify.
spotify: No Spotify tracks found from beets query
Sending event: cli_exit

Led to this problem:
Spotify search fails for me.

Setup

• OS: Arch Linux
• Python version: v3.10.9
• beets version: git master (1.6.1)
• Turning off plugins made problem go away (yes/no): no

My configuration (output of beet config) is:

include:
  - secrets.yaml  # has my OAuth credentials

plugins:
  - discogs
  - spotify
  - fromfilename
  - fetchart
  - embedart
  - lyrics
  - lastgenre
  - mpdstats
  - duplicates
  - scrub
directory: ~/musics
library: ~/.cache/beets/library.db

discogs:
  source_weight: 0.0

fromfilename:
  source_weight: 0.0

lyrics:
  sources:
    - lyricwiki
    - lyrics.com
    - musixmatch

musicbrainz:
  enabled: no

import:
  move: yes

[jackwilsdon]

Do you have "in the lonely hour" in your library? It seems like beets couldn't find it. Try running beet ls "in the lonely hour" and see if you get any output.

[UtkarshVerma]

Okay, I seem to have misunderstood the functionality. Could you please let me know how I can do the following?

• I have a J-Pop MP3 which I would like to tag with Spotify metadata as Musicbrainz keeps pulling Kanji
• I do beet import <mp3>, beet fails to find anything on spotify.
• It fails to find the metadata even if I manually pass the Id like https://open.spotify.com/track/7gspVQa13prQbNABCRacwE?si=4a97ea2c0b0248c9 or https://open.spotify.com/track/7gspVQa13prQbNABCRacwE

Please let me know how I should approach this. Thanks

[sampsyo]

Could you perhaps file a bug with full details (including a verbose log) showing the import where you can't match that song?

[UtkarshVerma]

It works fine. The docs were not clear about it. I thought "beet spotify " would search using Spotify API about the song. However, it simply returns the Spotify URL of songs in the library.

[jackwilsdon]

You can use beet spotifysync to sync metadata, but it seems like that might only sync popularity and audio features.