beets-quicktag 0.1.0

A beets plugin for quickly tagging tracks with customizable attributes

Beets QuickTag Plugin

This is a plugin for beets that scratches my own itch to categorize my music using custom tags, for DJing, as efficiently as possible. If it's not at a 1.0 release, it's probably not stable for use by others, though I'll still try and look at issues if for some reason you've found this (hi!).

It's a work in progress though much of the functionality is already there. I initially prototyped this using Claude 3.7 and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview but ended up re-working quite a bit of it.

TODO:

• add tests
• add rating or energy level widget
• consider bundling libmpv
• automate releases
• test on Windows
• summarize changes after QuickTag finishes running
• consider bundling libmpv

Requirements

You must have libmpv installed.

Configuration

Add a quicktag section to your beets config.yaml. Here's an example:

quicktag:
  autoplay_at_launch: yes
  autoplay_on_track_change: no
  autosave_on_quit: yes
  categories:
    collection:
      - DJ
      - Sample
    mood:
      - happy
      - sad
      - bright
      - dark
      - angry

Credits

This was inspired by the Quick Tag functionality in One Tagger, which is an excellent application. One Tagger also has a spreadsheet that might provide inspiration from existing systems to categorize tracks in this way. I believe the One Tagger system, or at least the default categories it has, are inspired by a reddit post by u/nonomomomo.