Replace function

[2V3EvG4LMJFdRe]

Sorry to do bother you guys here, but I asked a year ago #3948 and #4020 I got not answer.

Problem

'[<>:"\?\*\|]' what the heck is that? I don't understand what's the syntax for replace: is it's not mentioned at all on its documentation.

Here's what I have so far:

replace:
    '…': ...
    '’': '
    '“': "
    '”': "
    '−': -
    '‐': - 
    '—': -
    'Ⅱ': II 
    'Ⅰ': I

My goal is to have the tags written this way, don't care about how the filenames are written.

[jackwilsdon]

[<>:"\?\*\|] is a regular expression (as the documentation mentions). It matches any of the following:

• <
• >
• :
• "
• ?
• *
• |

The replace option only applies to paths and I'm not aware of any functionality in beets to allow replacing in tags - you'd need a new plugin to do that.

[2V3EvG4LMJFdRe]

Thank you. I wonder which source has all these special characters being favored when tagging. The amount of tracks I have with the very inconvenient " or … is staggering.

[jackwilsdon]

The album-level data_source field should tell you where the data came from:

beets ls -f '$album - $title ($data_source)'