Beets is a command-line music management tool that helps you organize your music collection, fix metadata errors, and more. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Beets on Ubuntu Server.
Before installing Beets, make sure that your Ubuntu server is up-to-date by running the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
Beets requires Python3 and pip3 to be installed on your server. To install Python3 and pip3, run the following command:
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip -y
After installing Python3 and pip3, you can now install Beets using pip3. Run the following command:
sudo pip3 install beets
This will download and install Beets and its dependencies on your Ubuntu server.
Now that Beets is installed, you can start configuring it. Create a new directory for Beets to store its configuration and library files:
mkdir -p ~/.config/beets
Next, create a new configuration file by copying the example file that comes with the Beets installation:
cp /usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/beets/config_default.yaml ~/.config/beets/config.yaml
You can now edit the configuration file to suit your needs. Refer to the Beets documentation for more information on configuring Beets.
You can now start using Beets to manage your music collection. To import music, run the following command:
beet import /path/to/music
This will import your music collection and try to match the metadata with the MusicBrainz database.
In this tutorial, we walked you through the process of installing Beets on Ubuntu Server. Beets is a powerful music management tool that can help you organize your music collection, fix metadata errors, and more. Now that Beets is installed, you can start using it to manage your music collection.
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