convert: In `auto` mode, respect `import.move` by deleting old files

[Sirove]

The relevant parts of my config:

import:
    move: yes

plugins: convert

convert:
    auto: yes
    max_bitrate: 192
    format: mp3

If the imported mp3 file has a bitrate under 192 it gets moved unconverted as desired.
If it's higher than that the old file remains inside the source folder after the successful conversion and the new file get's copied to the destination folder. It acts like the copy flag. The output shows:

convert: Encoding D:\Test\Test.mp3
convert: Finished encoding D:\Test\Test.mp3

[sampsyo]

Interesting point! This does seem wrong. For consistency, would you want transcoded files to have their originals deleted—so that the importer always appears to “move” the files?

[Sirove]

Absolutely! You could add an plugin option to ignore the global flag but otherwise it should definitely prioritize the global import settings.

[sampsyo]

Sounds good; thanks for clarifying!

[rnd256]

+1 to this feature request!

Better yet, instead of just deleting the source files, providing the option to move the source files to another dir would be excellent. So I can still have the sources around if needed, but they would be moved out of my "Things to process" dir.

[Satris404]

Has there been any news about this feature request? I'm facing the same issue

[Lansluaght]

Just here to add my +1 to this feature request.

[bugsyb]

+1
By default it would be expected to respect copy/move global flags with option to overwrite it and i.e. copy to a different folder with something like "paths_source:" option, where i.e. FLAC files could be moved to i.e. [FLAC] flagged folder respecting beets variables.

[uberjew666]

+1

[JordWyatt]

+1