How come fetchart isnt fetcharting?

[cylenia]

Hi. Fetchart ain't fetcharting. What am I doing wrong? Please help!
Installed beets via pipx install "beets", and then tried with pipx install "beets[fetchart]" and got the same result.
Plugin is enabled, default configuration.

paul:~ $ beet -v fetchart -f
user configuration: /home/cylenia/.config/beets/config.yaml
data directory: /home/cylenia/.config/beets
plugin paths: []
Loading plugins: fetchart, musicbrainz
fetchart: lastfm: Disabling art source due to missing key
fetchart: google: Disabling art source due to missing key
Sending event: pluginload
library database: /home/cylenia/.config/beets/library.db
library directory: /home/cylenia/music
Sending event: library_opened
Parsed query: AndQuery([TrueQuery()])
Parsed sort: NullSort()
Sending event: cli_exit

[yudin-s]

The important line is not the missing Last.fm/Google keys; it is that fetchart exits without ever listing an album to process.

beet fetchart works on albums already imported into the beets library. Check that first:

beet ls -a

If that prints nothing, the library database is empty or this command is using a different config/database than the one you imported with. Import an album first, or point beets at the right config with -c.

If albums do show up, run fetchart against one explicit album so the verbose log is smaller:

beet -v fetchart -f 'artist name album name'

The Last.fm and Google messages only mean those two sources are disabled because they need API keys. They should not make the command exit immediately by themselves; the zero-album case is the first thing to rule out.

If that was the missing piece, please mark this as answered.

[cylenia]

Oh, huh... it seems my library file got corrupted when I updated from the apt version of beets to the pip version. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, solved!