Ignore existing tags, file and folder names when tagging- only use acoustic id

[LordJABA]

Some time ago autottagging messed up my library. Folders, filenames and tags are completely wrong. Can I force beets to completely ignore them and use only acoustic id ? Any suggestion that takes existing things to account will be wrong.
I was thinking about just making all the names of files and folders a random strings but there must be a better way

Edit: Also I rarely have more than one song from an album - will this complicate it?

[LordJABA]

Tried removing the tags, moving all the files to one folder and renaming the files with random uuid
in effect beets still seems to ignore the audio and suggest the closest uuid to the random file name from music brains library

[arsaboo]

I just want to make sure that you have installed and configured the chromaprint plugin. Does it show up in logs? You can increase the penalty for other attributes using distance_weights (see discussion here).

[arogl]

@LordJABA What plugins are enabled? Can you list out that part of your config, and if you have changed any of the distance_weights as @arsaboo has indicated

[LordJABA]

cat .config/beets/config.yaml
directory: /mnt/hdd/music/
library: ~/musiclibrary.blb
import:
  write: yes
  copy: no
  move: yes
  fromfilename: no
plugins: discogs chroma fetchart embedart lastgenre duplicates
fetchart:
  auto: yes
embedart:
  auto: yes
match:
  strong_rec_thresh: 0.1  # Lower value means stricter matching
chroma:
    auto: yes

tried with only chroma plugin and with/without strong_rec_thresh
using -s in command

[arogl]

Sorry for the late reply.

Are the tracks on Musicbrainz?

It is strange that beets wants to match on the UUID when fromfilename is not enabled. Although fromfilename is a plugin rather than an option on import.

is it possible to post the output from beet -vv -s?

[JOJ0]

not sure, but try setting

musicbrainz:
  enabled: no

HTH