Beets-Plugin_VGMdb

A small plugin to collect metadata from VGMdb and manage a VGMdb collection

Beets link : https://beets.io/

It can:

- search on VGMdb for a release
- use the best track name distance for track matching (for the case where you can have the track in another language)
- log to your vgmdb account and on album import (where the data source came from vgmdb) add the album to your account
- add new option to give vgmdb id or search vgmdb using a query 

By default, we are using the api provided by hufman (third party) hosted at https://vgmdb.info. It's possible to change the target address with a selfhosted instance of vgmdb.info if you use the provided docker-compose (selfishly copied from his project)

docker-compose up

then configure the base url in your beets config.

Configuration:

There are two plugin name for different feature:

• VGMplug
• VGMCollection

Example config.yaml

plugins: VGMplug VGMCollection

Options are given below:

VGMplug Config:

VGMplug:
    lang-priority: 'en, ja-latn, ja'
    source_weight: 0.0
    artist-priority : "composers,performers,arrangers"
    autosearch: false # or true
    baseurl: "YOUR LOCAL VGMDB.info INSTANCE URL"

VGMCollection config:

"username": "ExampleLogin"
"password": "ExamplePassword"
"autoimport': True # VGMdb import require login and password set
"autoremove": False # on album remove, remove the album from your VGMdb account

Installation:

https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/index.html#other-plugins

pip install beets-vgmdb

Note on using VGMplug with the plugin albumtype

The list of possible albumtype given by VGMdb is:

• Original Soundtrack
• Remaster
• Drama
• Arrangement
• Prototype/Unused
• Talk
• Remix
• Vocal
• Live Event
• Original Work
• Video
• Sound Effect
• Data

TODO:

• fetch art using vgmdb
• better error handling
• tests for api changes
• advanced search api