Move command option to retain source file timestamp

[hastyeagle]

First off -- awesome app. I just found out about it last week and am loving the functionality of beets. Great job!

One option I'd like to see added to the move command is for it to retain the source file's timestamp. My use case is I move (copy) files to a directory that I then rsync over to an external drive for use in my car. Currently, using "beet move -c -e -d ~/dest " copies the files as expected, but each file has a timestamp of when the file was copied, not of the original file. When I then go to rsync that directory over to the external drive, it sees that every file has changed and copies them all over again. It's not a huge problem, it just would speed things up slightly by keeping the original timestamp.

Thanks again!

[arogl]

In your config.yaml file add the following code snippet:

plugins:
  importadded
 
importadded:
  preserve_mtimes: yes

Also great documentation located here beets: the music geek’s media organizer docs.

Feel free to suggest changes via PRs to update the documentation

[hastyeagle]

I already had that in my config when I ran the move / copy command, and the mtimes weren't preserved. I'm on v1.6.0.

[arogl]

Have you tried running from git source?

Maybe this is a bug?

[mikestir]

I ran into this. preserve_mtimes only seems to work for the import command, but not for move. I would agree it would be nice if move/copy could do this as well.