beets-rymgenre is a beets plugin to fetch genre information from
rateyourmusic.com and assigning it to your albums and items.
I don't recommend using this plugin! I got banned from rateyourmusic.com in mid-2016 for an abusive use of the site by using this plugin. The answer I got from Hossein Sharifi pointed out to scraping being disallowed by rateyourmusic.com:
RYM does not allow (and has never allowed) access via scraping or other types of scripts which access the site in an automated fashion. Please refrain from doing so until we complete our API, which is currently being developed and should be part of Sonemic.
The API is currently being developed and I might get back to this project when it is published.
The plugin requires lxml and requests, which you can install using pip by typing:
$ pip install lxml requests
After having lxml and requests installed, edit your config
file and add the path to the beetsplug folder of a clone of this repository to
your pluginpath line. Also enable the plugin by adding the
rymgenre value to your plugins line.
rateyourmusic.com attributes genres per album. Each album has a set of
primary genres and a set of secondary genres. You can configure the plugin to
set only the primary genres of an album or both the primary and secondary
genres. There is also a tree of genres and you can set only the most
specific genres for an album or the union of ancestor genres for each genre. The
default configuration is setting all primary and secondary genres and their
ancestors. You can override both settings by using the classes and depth
configuration values. The classes configuration can be either primary or
all, while depth can be either node or all:
rymgenre:
classes: all
depth: all
It is also possible to configure the separator to use for multiple genres. The
default value is ', ', but it is customizable through the separator
configuration value:
rymgenre:
separator: ' / '
beets-rymgenre doesn't run automatically on import. Instead, one should use
the command beet rymgenre [QUERY] to fetch genres for albums matching a
certain query. The genre import requires user confirmation and can be overriden
by selecting a different alternative or by specifying a rateyourmusic.com
URL.
Thanks to Rui Gonçalves, who created the original genres-tree
yaml, using his scala-scraper library.
Copyright (c) 2014 Joao Azevedo. See LICENSE for details.