Does the 'log' config file option support flags? (e.g. '-v' for verbose)

[apitofme]

The log config file option states only: "Specifies a filename where the importer’s log should be kept...", however the default logging-level output is somewhat less informative than I would like.

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As you can see from the sample log-file output above, it does not tell me anything about the processes going on behind the import command. I would like to see verbose output in my log-file so I was curious if I could just add the -v flag to the log: beets-log.txt line in my beets-config.yaml, or do I have to specify it each time directly on the command-line?

Or is there some other way to set the log-level verbosity that is persistent until changed?

[benpage2]

I don't think you can change the config to add verbose output to the log: config. It'll probably only accept a string for the file path.

The option verbose: (default verbose: 0) does exist in the default config, but it's not documented so changing it might help you not have to flag -v every time, or it might not.

For reference, you can find the default config with all possible options (including some other undocumented ones) here https://github.com/beetbox/beets/blob/master/beets/config_default.yaml

[apitofme]

Yeah I tested passing the flag in the config and that doesn't work (I didn't really expect it to tbf), and the option isn't global as it's part of the import settings.

Thanks, sounds like the verbose option may be the way to go 👍