Find and Replace in Genre Tag

[slyfoxgh]

Can you please tell me what would be a proper command to find "," in the genre tag in my entire library and replace it with "/"

ChatGPT suggested beet modify genre::',.*' genre+=\$/ -W I am not sure if this is correct.

[JOJ0]

Isn't ChatGPT always right? haha ;-)

In that suggested command, what I know is that the beet mod command is correct syntax more or less, but not sure about the regex... Why don't you test the regex on just a couple of albums. Modify alsways asks for confirmation before it actually does the modifications (unless you omit that question with the -y option.

This is how modify or short mod command basically works

beet modify genre::query_in_form_of_regex genre=new_value

I personally always switch the order of the options, I think it adds to readability since the last option always is my query, which often could be rather longish:

beet mod genre=new_value genre::regex_query more_query_args

I am not sure about the += in your suggested command....I've never seen it, but that doesn't mean it's not valid. Plz anyone else, doublecheck if that is valid syntax.

Relevant docs:

https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/cli.html#modify

https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/query.html

Hope that helps you move on with the topic :-)