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+Organising a music library can be a hassle. With the wealth of online stores all providing music tagged in various formats, it can be a nightmare to unify them all.
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+This is where beetFs comes in. Derived from beets, beetFs presents a FUSE filesystem that is based on your tags.
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+Modifying the tags within the beetFs mountpoint will not change the data on the hard disk, merely update the beet database. When an application requests a music file from within the beetFs mountpoint, beetFs provides tag information from its own database, instead of from the original file, but music data from the on-disk location.
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+This enables completely transparent modification of tags within an audio file with no change to the underlying on-disk data.