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# How to import an artist into beets

1. Download said artist (`deerix`)
1. Remove the useless/bad albums of the downloaded artist
1. Check for name duplicates (`./find_duplicates`)
1. Import (`beet import <artist>`)
1. Remove duplicated files (`beet duplicates  artist:<artist>`)
1. Search for canonical name duplicates (`beet list artist:<artist> <leftover name>`)