beets mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• beet

Projektgeschichte

beets was created by Adrian Sampson and the GitHub repository was opened in August 2010. The project describes itself as a media library management system for obsessive music users, with automatic metadata improvement as the core import workflow.

The changelog records the early beta series beginning with 1.0b1 on June 17, 2010, followed by many beta releases and two release candidates before 1.0.0 shipped on January 29, 2013.

The 1.0 release marked beets as stable while new development continued. The plugin system became central to the project's identity, with plugins for album art, lyrics, ReplayGain, acoustic fingerprints, transcoding, duplicates, web access, MPD, and several metadata sources.

The project reached 2.0.0 in May 2024 and continued active 2.x releases through 2026, including 2.12.0 in June 2026.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The supplied package metadata lists beets across Alpine, Homebrew, Debian, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Ubuntu, and openSUSE package names. The README also notes PyPI installation and distribution repository packaging.

beets adoption grew around the MusicBrainz-centered local-music workflow: import files, correct tags, move or copy into a library layout, then query and manipulate the collection through the beet CLI and plugins.

Wie es verwendet wird

The standard workflow is beet import followed by interactive metadata matching, file organization, and database-backed querying. Users customize behavior with config.yaml, path templates, plugins, and metadata-source credentials where individual plugins require them.

beets is especially useful for large local music collections because it combines tagging, library layout, duplicate checks, album art, lyrics, ReplayGain, transcoding, and scripting-friendly command-line access.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

beets is package-nerd significant because it is one of the enduring examples of a personal-data CLI that wraps a rich Python application, a SQLite-ish local library model, a plugin ecosystem, external metadata services, and distro packaging into one command called beet.

It sits at the intersection of package managers and hobbyist media preservation: PyPI, Linux distributions, Homebrew, and Nix all carry it because music-library users want the same tool available on servers, laptops, and long-lived archival machines.

For CLI collectors, beets also has the satisfying trait of turning messy filesystem culture into explicit configuration: tags, templates, metadata sources, plugins, and output paths are all package-managed and scriptable.

Zeitleiste

• 2010: 1.0b1 released and GitHub repository created.
• 2013: 1.0.0 released after fifteen betas and two release candidates.
• 2024: 2.0.0 released.
• 2026: 2.12.0 released.

Related projects

• MusicBrainz is the central metadata source named throughout beets' documentation and README.
• Discogs, Beatport, ReplayGain, MPD, and acoustic-fingerprint tooling are related services or workflows exposed through plugins.
• Picard is a related MusicBrainz-oriented tagger, while beets occupies the scriptable command-line library-manager niche.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/beetbox/beets
• https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changelog.html
• https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/config.html
• https://github.com/beetbox/beets#readme
• https://github.com/beetbox/beets/releases
• source_facts.package-manager