
Rewrite Plugin
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The "rewrite" plugin lets you easily substitute values in your
templates and path formats. Specifically, it is intended to let you
*canonicalize* names such as artists: for example, perhaps you want
albums from The Jimi Hendrix Experience to be sorted into the same
folder as solo Hendrix albums.

To use field rewriting, first enable the "rewrite" plugin (see *Using
Plugins*). Then, make a "rewrite:" section in your config file to
contain your rewrite rules. Each rule consists of a field name, a
regular expression pattern, and a replacement value. Rules are written
"fieldname regex: replacement". For example, this line implements the
Jimi Hendrix example above:

   rewrite:
       artist The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Jimi Hendrix

This will make "$artist" in your templates expand to "Jimi Hendrix"
where it would otherwise be "The Jimi Hendrix Experience".

The pattern is a case-insensitive regular expression. This means you
can use ordinary regular expression syntax to match multiple artists.
For example, you might use:

   rewrite:
       artist .*jimi hendrix.*: Jimi Hendrix

As a convenience, the plugin applies patterns for the "artist" field
to the "albumartist" field as well. (Otherwise, you would probably
want to duplicate every rule for "artist" and "albumartist".)

Note that this plugin only applies to templating; it does not modify
files' metadata tags or the values tracked by beets' library database.
