editmonaco

A really powerful and intuitive beets plugin to edit metadata. Based on the monaco editor (think VSCode), it allows for extensive features such as multiple cursors, and runs in the web browser.

Launching the plugin should be identical to the edit plugin, with a simple change of the plugin name. For example:

beet editmonaco Coldplay

Note

For now, it only works when this directory is the working directory

This will open the page in your web browser with the current values (it doesn't access the internet).

Note

If running from WSL, set the BROWSER environment variable to the path to your browser for it to open the page automatically!

Edit to your heart's content, and when you're done, press Submit

Development

Setup

git

From the bun documentation:

git config diff.lockb.textconv bun
git config diff.lockb.binary true

bun

From this directory:

bun install

python

Use your system python, or whatever beets uses!

pip install -r beetsplug/requirements.txt

browser-sync

For development, after running the beet command (so that the websocket and server is running), run the following command to enable refreshes when changing the code:

npx browser-sync start --proxy "localhost:8337" -f metadata.js --port 8338 --ui-port 8339

I also use the option -b "$BROWSER" from WSL.

Standalone

Run beetsplug/editmonaco.py directly, it will start with some dummy data. By default, it is set to not open the browser automatically, so that browser-sync can be used.

beets

Add the path to the path where you cloned this repository to your beets config (typically ~/.config/beets/config.yaml). For instance:

pluginpath:
  - ~/PATH/editmonaco/beetsplug

Note

You may need to temporarily remove other plugins from the plugins list if you're having trouble with dedicated python environments.

Program flow

WIP

• 󰌠 EditMonacoPlugin
  • ._edit_command() [with args]
  • .edit() [with fields: dict]
  • .edit_objects() [with fields: dict]
    • Create temporary file containing fields as JSON
    • Start HTTP server in thread (.serve_http())
    • Start websocket server with asyncio (.serve_websocket())
    • Remove temporary file
  • .save_changes()
• Require monaco editor
  • Open websocket
  • On event:
    • Create editor column for each field
    • Populate editors
    • Keep lines synchronised