Re: [PATCH] gnu: beets: Update to 1.3.19.

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 05:38:40PM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote:
> The most important plugin that I'm missing is the replaygain plugin, and
> I've got it working on my system now. There are multiple replaygain
> backends, and I wanted the bs1770gain backend, so I created a package
> for that. I started to make some related changes in the beets package
> too, but I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble.
> 
> If a user (1) installs bs1770gain into their profile, and (2) edits
> their config file to use that backend, then the replaygain plugin works
> fine. The nix package does a lot of patching to make both of those step
> unnecessary, but it seems like overkill to me.
> 
> The 'convert' plugin is similar in that it doesn't work OOTB, but it can
> be fixed by the user without modifying beets (just install ffmeg or
> configure it to use other commands for conversion).
> 
> WDYT?

I don't know how we've handled plugins, in general, so far. I think
there is an interesting approach to ALSA plugins on this branch:
https://notabug.org/Jookia/guix/commits/WIP_av

In the meantime, asking users to configure them manually seems fine. But
maybe I'm biased — I literally only use Beets to copy new music into my
library based on the music metadata tags. No plugins for me :)

Do you know how it works for Beets on "traditional" distros?