Help stripping "& Sia" from albumartist using Beets + inline plugin – creates wrong folder name clean_albumartist

[devyeah1978]

Hey everyone,

I'm using Beets and trying to clean up artist names during import. For example, I want "David Guetta & Sia" to become just "David Guetta" so that folders are organized cleanly under the main artist.

Here's what I'm using in my config:

paths:

default: $clean_albumartist/$album%aunique{} ($year)/$track - $title

item_fields:

clean_albumartist: |

import re

return re.split(r'(?i)\s*(feat.?|ft.?|featuring|&|,)\s+', albumartist)[0].strip()

clean_artist: |

import re

return re.split(r'(?i)\s*(feat.?|ft.?|featuring|&|,)\s+', artist)[0].strip()

The problem is that when I import an album like David Guetta & Sia – Beautiful People, Beets shows the correct split during tagging, but instead of creating the folder David Guetta/Beautiful People, it creates a literal folder named clean_albumartist/Beautiful People.

How can I get Beets to actually use the value of clean_albumartist and not treat it as a literal string? I’ve confirmed the inline plugin is enabled.

Thanks for any insight!

[arogl]

I have this in my config for inline, hope it helps:

item_fields:
  first_artist: |
    import re
    artistlist =  ["florence and the machine", "h & claire", "hootie & the blowfish"]
    artistlist += ["tom petty and the heartbreakers", "tones and i"]
    return re.split(r'(?i)(,\s)|(;\s)|(\s\&\s)|(\sfeat)|(\sft\.)|(\sft\s)|(\sX\s)|(\swith)|(\sand\s)|(\s×\s)|(\sǀ\s)',albumartist,1)[0:1][0] if albumartist.lower() not in artistlist else albumartist

[devyeah1978]

Thanks, this actually works for me

[DjSlash]

Another way would be using the subsitute plugin.