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Try to clarify the bevhavior of the rewrite plugin
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in the plugin docs as was discovered in beetbox#2786 (Metadata being modified).
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JOJ0 authored and Louis Rannou committed Sep 26, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -30,5 +30,7 @@ As a convenience, the plugin applies patterns for the ``artist`` field to the
``albumartist`` field as well. (Otherwise, you would probably want to duplicate
every rule for ``artist`` and ``albumartist``.)

Note that this plugin only applies to templating; it does not modify files'
metadata tags or the values tracked by beets' library database.
Note that this plugin basically only applies to templating; it initially does
not modify files' metadata tags or the values tracked by beets' library
database, but since it rewrites all field lookups, it also might modify file's
metadata.

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