Option to remove external album art after embedding

[RevenantOne]

I find the fetchart and embedart plugins really useful but once the album art has been embded I don't really have a use for the external cover.jpg file any more.

I'm unable to find any command to delete them or remove them from the library (please correct me if I'm wrong), so if I manually delete them beets will complain that they there are files missing for certain queries.

[sampsyo]

Thanks!

I'm not sure where something like this should live. In one of the plugins? In the core?

Also, FWIW, this relates to #111, where we're developing a full arsenal of tools for dealing with attachments (of which album art is just a special case).

[RevenantOne]

I would think it would make sense for it to be part of the embedart plugin as this issue occurs after embedding the art.

I read through the comments for #111 and saw the link to the wiki page which mentions the coverart plugin, but no mention of removed attached/image files after embedding.

[sampsyo]

Sure, an automatic hook to remove download art files would go in fetchart. But it seems like people might want to remove album art even if they're not embedding it (explicitly).

[pinchal]

I have the same problem, I don't know why theses covers are missing.
As a result I cannot apply any move: "Error: No such file or directory while moving ...".

[jimpriest]

Just getting started with Beets - love it so far!!

I'd love an option to purge / remove album art. Both files, and embedded info.

[sampsyo]

@jimpriest Cool! Explicit commands to remove art would probably be a different feature. If you're interested, can you open a separate ticket (with some thoughts about how this would work)?

[fohrums]

@samdoshi
what ever image embedart works with then have that reference to the image be the path for the rm command to be applied to prior to import.

or it could also work by the import command where it regards image file (.jpg,.png, etc).

But, to limit it through one action I would think having the image be deleted by the embedart command would be effecient enough since it's the one responsible.

[Schweinepriester]

was about to open another issue for this, but here is just a push :)

i think this should be an option for embedart, something like: removeArtFile: yes|no

Sure, an automatic hook to remove download art files would go in fetchart. But it seems like people might want to remove album art even if they're not embedding it (explicitly).

is there a use case where one would fetch albumart but then remove it?

if not, embedart it is :)

[Schweinepriester]

I just wrote a tiny (buggy? bad?) plugin, which fits for me so far: https://github.com/Schweinepriester/beets-removeartfile

Still hoping for a more sophisticated and better supported solution, though.