
Missing Plugin
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This plugin adds a new command, "missing" or "miss", which finds and
lists, for every album in your collection, which or how many tracks
are missing. Listing missing files requires one network call to
MusicBrainz. Merely counting missing files avoids any network calls.


Usage
=====

Add the "missing" plugin to your configuration (see *Using Plugins*).
By default, the "beet missing" command lists the names of tracks that
your library is missing from each album. You can customize the output
format, count the number of missing tracks per album, or total up the
number of missing tracks over your whole library, using command-line
switches:

   -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
                         print with custom FORMAT
   -c, --count           count missing tracks per album
   -t, --total           count total of missing tracks

…or by editing corresponding options.


Configuration
=============

To configure the plugin, make a "missing:" section in your
configuration file. The available options are:

* **count**: Print a count of missing tracks per album, with "format"
  defaulting to "$albumartist - $album: $missing". Default: "no".

* **format**: A specific format with which to print every track. This
  uses the same template syntax as beets' *path formats*. The usage is
  inspired by, and therefore similar to, the *list* command. Default:
  *format_item*.

* **total**: Print a single count of missing tracks in all albums.
  Default: "no".

Here's an example

   missing:
       format: $albumartist - $album - $title
       count: no
       total: no


Template Fields
===============

With this plugin enabled, the "$missing" template field expands to the
number of tracks missing from each album.


Examples
========

List all missing tracks in your collection:

   beet missing

List all missing tracks from 2008:

   beet missing year:2008

Print out a unicode histogram of the missing track years using spark:

   beet missing -f '$year' | spark
   ▆▁▆█▄▇▇▄▇▇▁█▇▆▇▂▄█▁██▂█▁▁██▁█▂▇▆▂▇█▇▇█▆▆▇█▇█▇▆██▂▇

Print out a listing of all albums with missing tracks, and respective
counts:

   beet missing -c

Print out a count of the total number of missing tracks:

   beet missing -t

Call this plugin from other beet commands:

   beet ls -a -f '$albumartist - $album: $missing'
