Missing Plugin#

This plugin adds a new command, missing or miss, which finds and lists missing tracks for albums in your collection. Each album requires one network call to album data source.

Usage#

The beet missing command fetches album information from the origin data source and lists names of the tracks that are missing from your library. Track-level checks use the album’s stored data_source and fall back to MusicBrainz when no source is stored.

It can also list the names of missing albums for each artist, although this is limited to albums from the MusicBrainz data source only.

You can customize the output format, show missing counts instead of track titles, or display the total number of missing entities across your entire library:

-f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
                      print with custom FORMAT
-c, --count           count missing tracks per album
-t, --total           count totals across the entire library
-a, --album           show missing albums for artist instead of tracks for album
--release-type        show only missing albums of specified release type.
                      You can provide this argument multiple times to
                      specify multiple release types to filter to. If not
                      provided, defaults to just the "album" release type.
                      provided, it uses the configured
                      ``missing.release_type`` (default: "album").

…or by editing the corresponding configuration options.

Warning

Option -c is ignored when used with -a, and --release-type is ignored when not used with -a. Valid release types can be shown by running beet missing -h.

Configuration#

To configure the plugin, make a missing: section in your configuration file. The available options are:

  • count: Print a count of missing tracks per album, with the global format_album used for formatting. Default: no.

  • total: Print a single count of missing tracks in all albums. Default: no.

Formatting#

  • This plugin uses global formatting options from the main configuration; see format_item and format_album:

  • format_item: Used when listing missing tracks (default item format).

  • format_album: Used when showing counts (-c) or missing albums (-a).

Here’s an example

format_album: $albumartist - $album
format_item: $artist - $album - $title
missing:
    count: no
    total: no

Template Fields#

With this plugin enabled, the $missing template field expands to the number of tracks missing from each album.

Examples#

List all missing tracks in your collection:

beet missing

List all missing albums in your collection:

beet missing -a

List all missing tracks from 2008:

beet missing year:2008

Print out a unicode histogram of the missing track years using spark:

beet missing -f '$year' | spark
▆▁▆█▄▇▇▄▇▇▁█▇▆▇▂▄█▁██▂█▁▁██▁█▂▇▆▂▇█▇▇█▆▆▇█▇█▇▆██▂▇

Print out a listing of all albums with missing tracks, and respective counts:

beet missing -c

Print out a count of the total number of missing tracks:

beet missing -t

List all missing albums of release type “compilation” in your collection:

beet missing -a --release-type compilation

List all missing albums of release type “compilation” and album in your collection:

beet missing -a --release-type compilation --release-type album

Call this plugin from other beet commands:

beet ls -a -f '$albumartist - $album: $missing'