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[henk84]

Hi

I’m looking into managing my existing audio collection with beets.
When I import (or reimport) my files, I only get to see very little information about what beets is going to do a given file or set of files.
More specifically, I’d basically like to be able to see all changes beets will perform for every file, i.e.:

• old path => new path, when moving files is enabled, especially important for me is to know whether it considers something a compilation, audiobook, soundtrack, etc and will move it to the configured folder or just the normal album folder
• every change to every tag, whether that is "deleting a comment", "adding a genre tag", or changing from "rock" to "classical rock" or whatever
• files ignored in a processed folder, because sometimes they contain notes, album art, lyrics, whatever I or some tool thought would be good to accompany the audio files and I want to know when something is just "left behind" so I can take care of it immediately and don’t have to get back to it later when the context is gone

I tried with -v but that seems to be mainly for diagnostic, in that it spews out a lot of lines about what beets is doing in terms of its logic but doesn’t really increase the amount of information about the points listed above.
Similar with --pretend: it only lists which files would be processed but not what changes it would make to them.

Am I missing some option, plugin, or approach I could be using to get this information?
If it’s not possible yet, could this be added as a feature request? Or bug? Depending on point of view, I guess this could be seen as a bug as having a --noop flag that goes through all the motions without actually performing them could be considered standard for tools that potentially perform lossy operations

Thank you very much

henk