beets-rockbox

beets plugin to build the rockbox database on your computer, directly from your beets library. this is a test to see if

This should be significantly faster than building the database on device, taking mere seconds instead of minutes. On a Ryzen 9 3950x i get about 650 songs/sec for building the DB and about 3000 songs/sec for indexing.

Features

• Build the database
• Sort tags alphabetical
• Write the Database to the device
• Progress Bar
• A way to manage statistics data collected by rockbox and sync it with the beets library
• Syncing of music to the device, see beets-alternatives
• Scrobbling

Configuration

plugins:
  - "rockbox"

rockbox: 
  # Directory to where the rockbox database_*.tcd files are written to, 
  # e.g. the .rockbox folder on your devices. 
  # Will error if the directory doesn't exist. 
  db: "/mnt/ipod/.rockbox"

  # Absolute path where music is stored on the rockbox devices. 
  # This is combined with relative library paths to set the filename 
  # references in the db.
  music: "/<HDD0>/Music"

  # If set, overrides the extension of any files with an extension not in 
  # this list with the first format. You would usually want to set this to 
  # the same values as the formats for your beets-alternatives collection. 
  formats: ["opus", "mp3"]

  # Optional query to restrict which files are included in rockbox database 
  # Usually set to the same value as the beets-alternatives collection. 
  query: "ipod#true"

  # String that is used as placeholder for unknown values in the database. 
  # Default: "<Unknown>" 
  unknown: "<Unknown>" 

CLI Usage

Run beet rock build to build the database and write it to your specified location.

Limitations

Currently, the database is built from the main beets database/library and no path formats are set, so if you are using path formats to organize your library in beets-alternatives differently than your main library this probably won't work for you.