The keyfinder plugin uses the KeyFinder program to detect the musical key of track from its audio data and store it in the initial_key field of your database. It does so automatically when importing music or through the beet keyfinder [QUERY]
command.
To use the keyfinder
plugin, enable it in your configuration (see using-plugins
).
To configure the plugin, make a keyfinder:
section in your configuration file. The available options are:
- auto: Analyze every file on import. Otherwise, you need to use the
beet keyfinder
command explicitly. Default:yes
- bin: The name of the KeyFinder program on your system or a path to the binary. If you installed the KeyFinder GUI on a Mac, for example, you want something like
/Applications/KeyFinder.app/Contents/MacOS/KeyFinder
. Default:KeyFinder
(i.e., search for the program in your$PATH
).. - overwrite: Calculate a key even for files that already have an initial_key value. Default:
no
.