Re: [PATCH] gnu: beets: Update to 1.3.19.

[Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016, at 06:24 PM, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > (I'm also working on a few more patches to enable more beets plugins.
> > They'll probably be ready sometime this weekend.)
> 
> Doubly awesome!

The most important plugin that I'm missing is the replaygain plugin, and
I've got it working on my system now. There are multiple replaygain
backends, and I wanted the bs1770gain backend, so I created a package
for that. I started to make some related changes in the beets package
too, but I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble.

If a user (1) installs bs1770gain into their profile, and (2) edits
their config file to use that backend, then the replaygain plugin works
fine. The nix package does a lot of patching to make both of those step
unnecessary, but it seems like overkill to me.

The 'convert' plugin is similar in that it doesn't work OOTB, but it can
be fixed by the user without modifying beets (just install ffmeg or
configure it to use other commands for conversion).

WDYT?

> By the way, Beets says that the next version will be compatible with
> Python 3:
> https://twitter.com/b33ts/status/746871072436289537
> 
> When that release comes, let's take the opportunity to update Beets's
> entire dependency graph.

Nice! Sounds good to me.
-- 
Alex Griffin