How to Install Beets on Manjaro

Introduction

Beets is a command-line music organizer that aims to simplify your access to your music collection. It helps you to better organize your music files by fetching metadata from online sources and to handle renaming, tagging, and duplication detection. In this tutorial, we will discuss how to install Beets on Manjaro Linux.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, you need to have the following prerequisites:

  • A Manjaro machine with sudo privileges
  • Internet connectivity

Installing Beets

Beets is available in the official repositories of Manjaro. So, it can be easily installed by using the pacman package manager. To install Beets on Manjaro, follow the steps below:

  1. Open up the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T or searching through the applications menu.

  2. Run the update command to update the package lists:

sudo pacman -Syu
  1. Then, install Beets by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S beets
  1. That's it! Beets is now installed on your Manjaro system.

Configuring Beets

Now that you have installed Beets on your Manjaro system, you need to configure it to use it effectively. By default, Beets uses the ~/.config/beets/config.yaml file as its configuration file. You can create this file if it does not exist already, by using the following command:

mkdir -p ~/.config/beets && touch ~/.config/beets/config.yaml

Now, you can edit the configuration file by using your preferred text editor. Here we will be using nano editor:

nano ~/.config/beets/config.yaml

Here is an example configuration file for Beets:

directory: ~/Music
library: ~/Music/library.blb

plugins:
  - replaygain
  - the
  - mpdstats

import:
  copy: yes
  move: no
  write: yes

replaygain:
  auto: true
  albumgain: true
  noclip: true
  apply_gain: true

mpd:
  host: 127.0.0.1
  port: 6600

Once you have made the necessary changes, save and close the file by pressing Ctrl + X, Y, and then Enter.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Beets on Manjaro and configure it to your liking. You can now use Beets to organize your music collection and enjoy a cleaner, more organized music experience.