MarkdownNotes/howto - Beets Music Library Cleanup.md

Music cleanup one-liners

Find albums with less than 3 tracks

Useful for finding directories that contain only artwork

NUM=3 && find /mnt/phnas02/music -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 2 -type f -printf '%h\0' | awk -v num="$NUM" 'BEGIN{RS="\0"} {array[$0]++} END{for (line in array) if (array[line]<num) printf "%s\n", line}'

Beets find and remove albums

Delete album with:

beet rm -a "Jon Oliva" -d

(-a for album and -d to delete the files and not just the database entry)