The info
plugin provides a command that dumps the current tag values for any file format supported by beets. It works like a supercharged version of mp3info or id3v2.
Enable the info
plugin in your configuration (see using-plugins
) and then type:
$ beet info /path/to/music.flac
and the plugin will enumerate all the tags in the specified file. It also accepts multiple filenames in a single command-line.
You can also enter a query </reference/query>
to inspect music from your library:
$ beet info beatles
If you just want to see specific properties you can use the --include-keys
option to filter them. The argument is a comma-separated list of simple glob patterns where *
matches any string. For example:
$ beet info -i 'title,mb*' beatles
Will only show the title
property and all properties starting with mb
. You can add the -i
option multiple times to the command line.
Additional command-line options include:
--library
or-l
: Show data from the library database instead of the files' tags.--summarize
or-s
: Merge all the information from multiple files into a single list of values. If the tags differ across the files, print[various]
.