beets roadmap.xlsx

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J
1	Green=done	Sooner				Later
2	Existing Features	Usability
3	New Features	Current, nearly-done PRs	New importer UI	richer analytics on musicbrainz fields (songs with flute)	OCR on liner notes, richer analytics when musicbrainz or discogs are sparse	OCR on disc labels and covers, match labels and liner notes to discs and tracks
4	Use Cases to Investigate			DJ and stage musicians (not hard to imagine beets as a first pass for people to manually curate sets)	better classical music support?
5	Code Maintenance			Decouple console UI from backend; lay groundwork for web or OS GUI to interact with beets
6	Plugins	Cleanup plugin page to cull dormant projects; repurpose to github query + links to other repos where needed (gitlab) ?	copyartifacts / extrafiles - modernize code and support one of them	Bandcamp? Bandcamp downloads are kinda silly, for example I've gotten embedded art that's worse than what's on the site page; tags are bad and trivially can be improved	ABX; RateyourMusic import	Convert CD-style numbering to vinyl style when the release group was released before ~1990 and a vinyl is available in musicbrainz (thematic significance in ex. Quadrophenia)	downsample to CD quality on import- make beets the 'we know audio, we'll take care of it' destination. See Xiph neil-young	chronological playlist (Beatles singles chronological along with their albums, probably not the only band with non-album singles)	De emphasis and pre emphasis (very early CD feature, some rips of 80s CDs may be improper and can be easily 'fixed' though this is technically lossy?	follow an artist through multiple personas (beatles -> lennon, the many faces of Vektroid)
7	More Plugins	hello_world as a plugin with copious logging	Smart-skip playlists (I always skip track 2 of this album, put it at the bottom of the album tracks or don't include it at all [user configurable])
8	Configuration	Usability	Encourage Python/inline path definitions, mark regex and beets' normal path formats as deprecated		Stop supporting non-python path formats
9	Docs	Split into config_basic and config_advanced (existing issue; needs more work)	Automate generation of config_basic and config_advanced rst docs	revise the "for developers" plugin page; recommend and link to OOP and Python OOP tutorials bc they are critical for understanding plugins
10	Videos/Blogs	"How do I" beets 101 topics			guest on the FOSSpod ? https://fosspod.wiki/episode-list.html
11	Community Management	Close Github Discussions or Discourse (I've posted about this; these 2 basically do the same thing and cut our community in half)	Understand the state of open music in 2023 and where beets can/should fit into that (Moe, Navidrome, Picard, others?)	Seriously consider a Reddit or Discord alongside existing forum - I think younger people prefer it	Have Beets person/people go to (online?) FOSS meetups and learn from other projects on how to manage/grow/stabilize a community
12	Mentorship	Train up people in various parts of beets, I liked J0J0(?)'s idea of having experts in individual components	Google Summer/Advent of Code, others? See https://discourse.beets.io/t/ideas-for-potential-partnerships-with-beets/2227	University professors teaching CS students? some precedent- https://github.com/beetbox/beets/discussions/4737
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