Yep, that is indeed what it does—I don't believe there's an option to do the other thing (convert to a file on the side) automatically on import.
> On May 12, 2017, at 8:53 AM, Andy Pastuszak <[email protected]> wrote: > > The documentation for the convert plugin makes it sound like it's going to > take your FLAC, convert them to MP3 and then add the MP3 to your library. > I'm more than willing to give this a try. Let me go test. > >> On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:48 AM, Adrian Sampson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Hi there! >> >> >> >> Adrian >> > On May 11, 2017, at 10:21 PM, Andy Pastuszak <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > If there a way to import my lossless files and then have beets >> > automatically run a convert on the files I just imported without me >> > needing to manually run convert after the import? >> >> Have you tried the "auto" configuration option for the concert plugin? >> >> > Also is there any way to run a convert and have it not convert if there is >> > any lossy file at the destination? So, I am going to convert to MP3, I'd >> > like it to see that I already have m4a files in the destination and skip >> > converting those files. >> >> We don't have anything exactly like that. >> >> > And, lastly.... >> > >> > I run beets on an Ubuntu Linux 16.04 server that I ssh into. Once the >> > convert command completes, I cannot see anything I type. I usually end up >> > killing the SSH session and logging back in. This the only beets command >> > that causes this behavior. Has anyone else seen this? >> >> This has recently been fixed in master; we'll include it in a release soon. >> (A judicious GitHub issues search should turn something up.) >> >> Adrian >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "beets" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "beets" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "beets" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
