OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented about beets-alternatives

[geigerzaehler]

Hi @dosoe. It looks like the filesystem you use does not support symbolic links. Using link as the format the plugin tries to create symbolic links for the collection. But this fails at the operating system layer because the filesystem (which looks like FAT32 to me) does not support creating links.

I see two possible solutions for this. First, you can switch to a file system that supports symbolic links. Almost all modern file systems do. If sharing the collection with a Windows machine is a requirement you should consider NTFS which is also supported on linux.

The second solution would be to not use the link format and copy the files instead. However, this is slow and consumes a lot of disk space.

Since this is not an issue with the plugin itself I’m going to close this issue. But feel free to respond and ask questions in this thread.