Modify album and tracks simultaneously

[dschrempf]

Hi!

At the moment, if I want to change the compilation flag for an album, I have to to

beet modify album comp=1
beet modify -a new-path-to-album comp=1

where new-path-to-album is usually Compilations/album.

Is it possible to set flags for an album and the tracks simultaneously?

[sampsyo]

Hmm, that's odd—I thought beet modify -a all by itself would do just fine. Modifying an album-level field should propagate changes to the items in the album. This happens right about here:

beets/beets/library.py

Lines 1337 to 1339 in 3c78537

	for item in self.items():
	for key, value in track_updates.items():
	item[key] = value

Any chance that does happen to work all by itself?

[dschrempf]

Oh, I didn't know that. It is not clear from the documentation. Maybe I can add a sentence about that?

[sampsyo]

Sounds good!