Any chance of picking this up again?

[rkrug]

Hi
I started using beets some time ago, and it is great - and I think that it would be a natural match with LMS.

What were your ideas about this plugin? Any chance of picking it up again? Or a plugin for beets, which triggers a rescan in LMS?

[jhermann]

I have existing code that accesses the telnet command interface, I just need to find the time to integrate it (and try it with Python 3).

I you have use cases like the rescan one, you might open issues for them.

[LazaRocks]

Thanks Jürgen for sharing beetzbox.

• Any update regarding continuing maintenance of this awesome plugin?
• Does it work with python 3? I get these DEPRECATION warnings about using distutils config files, and read in the provided link that ... Nothing is currently expected to break until Python 3.12,... .

Here is what I get trying to install on a Mac mini running Catalina (10.15) and using your instructions:

Macmini61:~ admin$ repo="jhermann/beetzbox" 
Macmini61:~ admin$ pip install -r "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/$repo/master/requirements.txt"
DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
Collecting beets==1.4.6
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ReadTimeoutError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=15)")': /packages/d5/44/caa90254c82b31acf5c85d22974cea7d8de405346c95add966a8f21e305b/beets-1.4.6.tar.gz
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ReadTimeoutError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=15)")': /packages/d5/44/caa90254c82b31acf5c85d22974cea7d8de405346c95add966a8f21e305b/beets-1.4.6.tar.gz
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ReadTimeoutError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=15)")': /packages/d5/44/caa90254c82b31acf5c85d22974cea7d8de405346c95add966a8f21e305b/beets-1.4.6.tar.gz
  WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'ReadTimeoutError("HTTPSConnectionPool(host='files.pythonhosted.org', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=15)")': /packages/d5/44/caa90254c82b31acf5c85d22974cea7d8de405346c95add966a8f21e305b/beets-1.4.6.tar.gz
  Downloading beets-1.4.6.tar.gz (1.5 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.5 MB 2.9 MB/s            
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.9 in /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from beets==1.4.6->-r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jhermann/beetzbox/master/requirements.txt (line 5)) (1.16.0)
Collecting mutagen>=1.33
  Downloading mutagen-1.45.1-py3-none-any.whl (218 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 218 kB 11.3 MB/s            
Collecting munkres
  Downloading munkres-1.1.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (7.0 kB)
Collecting unidecode
  Downloading Unidecode-1.3.2-py3-none-any.whl (235 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 235 kB 22.8 MB/s            
Collecting musicbrainzngs>=0.4
  Downloading musicbrainzngs-0.7.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (25 kB)
Collecting pyyaml
  Downloading PyYAML-6.0-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (197 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 197 kB 21.1 MB/s            
Collecting jellyfish
  Downloading jellyfish-0.8.9-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_14_x86_64.whl (24 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: beets
  Building wheel for beets (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for beets: filename=beets-1.4.6-py3-none-any.whl size=474308 sha256=081095166dfce0df1a1ea6cbe756ee581108383b4156df34f158dae176a83176
  Stored in directory: /Users/admin/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/88/e6/f3/e20b3c30d60f6468e15bb3369f1535a7d9bde60826a8df9083
Successfully built beets
Installing collected packages: unidecode, pyyaml, mutagen, musicbrainzngs, munkres, jellyfish, beets
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
Successfully installed beets-1.4.6 jellyfish-0.8.9 munkres-1.1.4 musicbrainzngs-0.7.1 mutagen-1.45.1 pyyaml-6.0 unidecode-1.3.2
Macmini61:~ admin$ pip install -UI -e "git+https://github.com/$repo.git#egg=${repo#*/}"
DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
Obtaining beetzbox from git+https://github.com/jhermann/beetzbox.git#egg=beetzbox
  Cloning https://github.com/jhermann/beetzbox.git to ./src/beetzbox
  Running command git clone --filter=blob:none -q https://github.com/jhermann/beetzbox.git /Users/admin/src/beetzbox
  Resolved https://github.com/jhermann/beetzbox.git to commit 35d0953d2c0d9d596c42396c231aba4c798d1fba
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting beets>=1.4.3
  Downloading beets-1.6.0.tar.gz (1.7 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.7 MB 2.6 MB/s            
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting unidecode
  Using cached Unidecode-1.3.2-py3-none-any.whl (235 kB)
Collecting musicbrainzngs>=0.4
  Using cached musicbrainzngs-0.7.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (25 kB)
Collecting pyyaml
  Using cached PyYAML-6.0-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_9_x86_64.whl (197 kB)
Collecting mediafile>=0.2.0
  Downloading mediafile-0.9.0-py3-none-any.whl (21 kB)
Collecting confuse>=1.0.0
  Downloading confuse-1.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (25 kB)
Collecting munkres>=1.0.0
  Using cached munkres-1.1.4-py2.py3-none-any.whl (7.0 kB)
Collecting jellyfish
  Using cached jellyfish-0.8.9-cp39-cp39-macosx_10_14_x86_64.whl (24 kB)
Collecting mutagen>=1.45
  Using cached mutagen-1.45.1-py3-none-any.whl (218 kB)
Collecting six>=1.9
  Downloading six-1.16.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (11 kB)
Building wheels for collected packages: beets
  Building wheel for beets (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for beets: filename=beets-1.6.0-py3-none-any.whl size=499716 sha256=2cb626b837f4b3f39d11e32d0fc10fce4cb37df0dadc7f124050f51273691790
  Stored in directory: /Users/admin/Library/Caches/pip/wheels/ba/f0/1f/22120011500d55de4bcd60d28eddd22b37cfed8c4728a1eaf6
Successfully built beets
Installing collected packages: six, pyyaml, mutagen, unidecode, musicbrainzngs, munkres, mediafile, jellyfish, confuse, beets, beetzbox
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  DEPRECATION: Configuring installation scheme with distutils config files is deprecated and will no longer work in the near future. If you are using a Homebrew or Linuxbrew Python, please see discussion at https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/76621
  Running setup.py develop for beetzbox
Successfully installed beets-1.6.0 beetzbox-0.1.0.dev0 confuse-1.7.0 jellyfish-0.8.9 mediafile-0.9.0 munkres-1.1.4 musicbrainzngs-0.7.1 mutagen-1.45.1 pyyaml-6.0 six-1.16.0 unidecode-1.3.2
Macmini61:~ admin$