Archiving

Archiving puts the raw sides away and clears the working files. It is the last step, and it is gated: the raw sides are not cleared until the record is provably in the library.

The gate

Archive rip stays disabled until the tracks are confirmed filed. The pipeline strip at the top says what is missing. The dialog shows what will happen before you commit to it: which sides move where, how many tracks were found in the library, and how many were expected.

RipDoctor asks the importer where it filed the record rather than guessing the path, so this works whatever naming scheme beets is configured with.

What it does

1. Copies each raw side into archive/<slug>/, re-encoding any that are truncated — a capture ended with Ctrl-C is not a valid FLAC.
2. Verifies every archived side decodes.
3. Only then removes raw/<slug>/, the record's review directory and its analysis cache.

Nothing in archive/ is ever deleted. The raw sides are what make a re-split possible without playing the record again.

After it

The record stays in the selector, marked as archived. You can reopen it, re-cut it from the archived sides, re-rip a side or punch a track.

The page returns to — new album —, ready for the next record.

From the command line

ripdoctor archive <plan.json>

It asks the library how many tracks arrived and refuses if the count is short. --library overrides the configured root.