Add sanitize_searches Option

beetsplug/itunes.py

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ class iTunesPlugin(BeetsPlugin):
             'search_countries': ['US'],
             'lookup_countries': ['US', 'DE', 'AU', 'GB', 'FR', 'IT', 'JP'],
             'search_limit': 5,
+            'sanitize_searches': True, # Whether to remove parenthesized and braced text from searches
             'artwork': False, # Whether to also download artwork from iTunes. Does not work well with fetchart
             'method': 'lookup', # Valid values: 'search', 'lookup', 'both', 'lookup (search fallback)'
         })
@@ -107,6 +108,10 @@ class iTunesPlugin(BeetsPlugin):
     def search_limit(self):
         return self.config['search_limit'].as_number()
     
+    @property
+    def sanitize_searches(self):
+        return self.config['sanitize_searches']
+
     def scan_track_ids(self, session, task):
         self._log.debug("Scanning track IDs")
         for item in task.items:
@@ -171,11 +176,18 @@ class iTunesPlugin(BeetsPlugin):
         """Searches for matching albums on iTunes.
         """
         
+        if self.sanitize_searches:
+            pattern = re.compile('(\s*(\(.*\)|\[.*\]|\{.*\}))*$')
+            album = pattern.sub('', album)
+            artist = pattern.sub('', artist)
+                        
         if va_likely:
             query = album
         else:
             query = '%s %s' % (artist, album)
         
+        print("Searching", query)
+        
         albums = []
         for country in self.search_countries:
             try: