Inboxes

In your config.yml you may add multiple inboxes, each may have a different purpose.

The gui.inbox.folders section allows you to define multiple inboxes, each with a name, path, and an autotag setting. The autotag setting determines how the files in the inbox are processed by beets-flask.

Autotag settings

• "no" you have to do everything manually.

• "preview" fetch meta data from online sources, but don’t import yet.

• "auto" fetch meta data, and import if the match is good enough (based on threshold).

• "bootleg" you are sure the meta data is fine, or it does not exist online.
  Drop files to import as-is in here, but still create one subfolder for each import session you want to create. (Beets acts on folders. Files directly inside the inbox wont trigger an imported)

Example configuration

Note that the top label (i.e. Inbox1, Inbox2…) does not matter.

gui:
    inbox:
        folders:
            Inbox1:
                name: "Dummy inbox"
                path: "/music/dummy"
                autotag: no
                # do not automatically trigger tagging and do not automatically import

            Inbox2:
                name: "An Inbox that only generates the previews"
                path: "/music/inbox_preview"
                autotag: "preview"
                # trigger tag but do not import, recommended for most control

            Inbox3:
                name: "Auto Inbox"
                path: "/music/inbox_auto"
                autotag: "auto"
                # trigger tag and import if a good match is found based on `auto_threshold`

                auto_threshold: null
                # if set to null, uses the value in beets config (match.strong_rec_thresh)
                # define the distance from a perfect match, i.e. set to 0.1 to import
                # matches with 90% similarity or better.

            Inbox4:
                name: "Paul's Bootlegs"
                path: "/music/inbox_bootlegs"
                autotag: "bootleg"
                # Import as-is using the meta data of files, and group albums
                # using the metadata, even if they are in the same folder
                # Effectively `beet import ... --group-albums -A`