From 4c1a035cdd485092cbc0cc32fbcdfda29cb927a4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: J0J0 Todos Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 08:45:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Try to clarify the bevhavior of the rewrite plugin in the plugin docs as was discovered in #2786 (Metadata being modified). --- docs/plugins/rewrite.rst | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/plugins/rewrite.rst b/docs/plugins/rewrite.rst index 3706d940a2..5610408aaf 100644 --- a/docs/plugins/rewrite.rst +++ b/docs/plugins/rewrite.rst @@ -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.