The beets blog.

This is the weblog for beets, an open-source music management system by Adrian Sampson. It consists of announcements about the project, guides to doing fancy stuff with beets, and technical articles about Python and music-related development.

Subscribe to the feed. You should also follow @b33ts on Twitter, where smaller project updates are posted more frequently.

• August 20, 2022: a guided walkthrough.

• June 19, 2016: we’re pretty happy with SQLite & not urgently interested in a fancier DBMS.

• June 4, 2016: our solution for the hell that is filename encoding, such as it is.

• September 2, 2013: flexible attributes, in which schemaless and schemaful coexist peacefully.

• February 28, 2013: moving from Google Code to GitHub: a horrible, ultimately rewarding odyssey.

• January 4, 2013: your musical year in review.

• November 27, 2012: rescheduling 1.0.

• October 6, 2012: the end of Twitter syndication is nigh.

• September 9, 2012: beets and Python 3.

• August 24, 2012: the SQLite lock timeout nightmare.

• August 17, 2012: the road to 1.0.

• August 3, 2012: Tomahawk resolver.

• August 1, 2012: beets has a new blog.