Help with inline "item_fields" to pull "remixer" out of track title and into a custom field

[nicoleproc]

Hi! Very much a newbie/inexperienced...but I'm trying to pull anything in parenthesis out of the title name and copy it over to a "remixer" field. Please help! :) I have spent way too long trying to figure this out!

When I run this in python, it comes back with the correct information:

import re
...
... # Test case
... title = "Under Pressure feat. Queen (Disco Pirate's Remix)"
...
... # Regex to extract the remixer
... match = re.search(r'((.*?)\s+Remix)', title, re.IGNORECASE)
... if match:
... print("Remixer:", match.group(1)) # Expected Output: "Disco Pirate"
... else:
... print("No match found")
...
Remixer: Disco Pirate's

But when I run this, it comes back empty -
beet ls -f '$title - $remixer'
Under Pressure feat. Queen (Disco Pirate's Remix) -

Here is my config file -

directory: /Users/Nicole/Music/ShamblesMusicLibrary
library: /Users/Nicole/Music/library.db
pluginpath: /Users/Nicole/Music/Beets_Plug_Ins

clutter:

• Thumbs.DB
• .DS_Store
• .jpg
• .png

plugins:

• mbsync
• beatport4
• bucket
• edit
• embedart
• fetchart
• fromfilename
• ftintitle
• hook
• info
• inline
• lyrics
• missing
• rewrite
• smartplaylist
• bpm
• scrub
• duplicates
• zero
• substitute

duplicates:
move: /Users/Nicole/Music/ShamblesMusicLibrary/Duplicates
count: yes
full: no

substitute:
^(.?)(,| &| and| +| feat.| vs).: \1

import:
move: no
write: yes
copy: yes
autotag: yes
resume: ask
incremental: no
quiet_fallback: skip
duplicate_action: ask

field_mapping:
energy: TXXX:ENERGY # Custom field for energy
vibe: TXXX:VIBE # Custom field for vibe
placement: TXXX:PLACEMENT # Custom field for placement
events: TXXX:EVENTS # Custom field for events
sub_genre: TXXX:SUB_GENRE # Maps Beatport's sub-genre to a custom field
remixer: TXXX:REMIXER # Maps remixer metadata
mix_name: TXXX:MIX_NAME # Maps mix name (e.g., Extended Mix)

replace:
"[\\]": ""
"[_]": "-"
"[/]": "-"
^.: ""
"[\x00-\x1f]": ""
'[<>:"?*|]': ""
.$: ""
\s+$: ""
^\s+: ""
^-: ""
’: "'"
′: "'"
″: ""

zero:
fields: comments genre
update_database: yes

scrub:
auto: yes

fetchart:
auto: yes
minwidth: 100
maxwidth: 1000
enforce_ratio: yes
sources: itunes amazon coverart
store: no

embedart:
maxwidth: 1000
auto: yes

lyrics:
auto: yes
sources: genius musixmatch

inline:
item_fields:
remixer: |
import re
if title:
match = match = re.search(r'((.*?)\s+(Remix|Mix|Version))', title, re.IGNORECASE)
if match:
return match.group(1) # Extracts "Remixer Name"
return '' # Default to empty if no match is found

beatport4:
art: yes
art_overwrite: yes
username: sshambless
password: Youthknp90!
fields_to_fetch:
- title
- artist
- album
- bpm
- key
- genre
- sub_genre
- remixer
- mix_name
- label
- release_date

paths:
default: %bucket{$artist}/%substitute{$artist}/$title - $artist - |$year| |$bpm|
singleton: %bucket{$artist}/%substitute{$artist}/$title - $artist - |$year| |$bpm|

bucket:
bucket_alpha:
- "#-!"
- 0-9
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
bucket_alpha_regex:
"#-!": "^[^0-9a-zA-ZåÅäÄöÖ]"
bucket_year: [] # Leave empty for no year-specific buckets
extrapolate: no # Do not create miscellaneous buckets
bucket_format: $artist # Use artist field for bucket categorization

ui:
color: yes

match:
strong_rec_thresh: 0.20 # Only accept matches with 85% or higher confidence

logging:
level: DEBUG
file: ~/.config/beets/beets.log

[JOJ0]

Hi @nicoleproc, I don't have an immediate answer but only a quick hint that might improve the chance people look at the configuration you posted: It is entirely unformatted, thus in my opinion entirely unreadable. If you put it into a codebox it gets formatted using a monospace font and intentations are kept in place and it gets readable for fellow beeters. Edit your post, mark config parts, and press the "code" button in the toolbox. Do the same with the code snippet you posted. I think you chose the "quotes" button instead of the "code" button. Hope that helps :-)