Why would inline run no matter whether condition is true or false?

[swills1]

I have the followig and it should only add [RE-year] if year is greater than original_year. However, it adds [RE-year] to the path even when the year and original_year match.

# inline
inline:
  album_fields:
    rerelease: 1 if $year > $original_year else 0

# tagging
paths:
  default: %the{$albumartist}/$album - [$original_year] [$catalognum] [$media-$format] [${bitdepth}bit] %if{$rerelease, [RE-$year]}/$albumartist - $album - $track - $title

[swills1]

It behaves the same way when trying to detect multi disc. If there is one disc, this still puts the files in a disc sub folder.

# inline
inline:
  album_fields:
    rerelease: 1 if $year > $original_year else 0
  item_fields:
    multidisc: 1 if disctotal > 1 else 0

# tagging
paths:
  default: %the{$albumartist}/$album - [$original_year] [$label] [$catalognum] [$media-$format] [${bitdepth}bit]/%if{$multidisc,$disc/}$albumartist - $album - $track - $title

[DjSlash]

rerelease: 1 if $year > $original_year else 0

should be: rerelease: 1 if year > original_year else 0

But I don't see why it adds the disc sub folder. Seems to me it should work like expected.

[swills1]

Tried that already and no go. See multidisc. It doesn't have $ and also ignores the else.

[DjSlash]

Could you paste the output of beet config?

[swills1]

I took the inline pieces out of my path format.

library: library.db
directory: \\REDACTED\main\Media\Music\Music

statefile: state.pickle

plugins: the filetote inline rewrite discogs
pluginpath: []

import:
    write: yes
    copy: yes
    move: no
    timid: no
    quiet: no
filetote:

    paths:
        pattern:scans: $albumpath/scans/$old_filename
        pattern:cue: $albumpath/${album}_cue
        pattern:log: $albumpath/${album}_log
        pattern:m3u: $albumpath/${album}_m3u
    patterns:
        scans: ['[sS]cans/']
        cue: ['*.cue']
        log: ['*.log']
        m3u: ['*.m3u']
    session:
        operation:
        beets_lib:
        import_path:
    extensions: ''
    filenames: ''
    exclude: ''
    pairing:
        enabled: no
        pairing_only: no
        extensions: .*
    print_ignored: no
discogs:
    user_token: REDACTED
    apikey: REDACTED
    apisecret: REDACTED
    tokenfile: discogs_token.json
    source_weight: 0.5
    separator: ', '
    index_tracks: no
rewrite:
    media Digital Media: Web
inline:
    album_fields:
        rerelease: 1 if year > original_year else 0
    item_fields:
        multidisc: 1 if disctotal > 1 else 0

paths:
    default: '%the{$albumartist}/$album - [$original_year] [$label] [$catalognum] [$media-$format] [${bitdepth}bit]/$albumartist - $album - $track - $title'
pathfields: {}
item_fields: {}
album_fields: {}
the:
    the: yes
    a: yes
    format: '{0}, {1}'
    strip: no
    patterns: []

[DjSlash]

Oh, I see now. The item_fields and album_fields should not be within a inline: block. They are on their own. Notice how you have item_fields: {} and album_fields: {}?

So we see here two unexpected behaviors:

• the inline plugin configuration does not have it's own section, while all other plugins do
• undefined variables compute to true (huh?)

[swills1]

That seems to have done it. Thanks.
Is there a way to donate to https://nllgg.nl/?

[RollingStar]

Sidenote: I've long believed that Inline should be reworked into pure python. https://discourse.beets.io/t/time-to-rethink-path-formats/1402/6

[DjSlash]

That seems to have done it. Thanks.

You're welcome! :)

Is there a way to donate to https://nllgg.nl/?

No, not directly. It's a Dutch Linux user group that has members who pay annually contribution.