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[yarg]

Does it accept flags to deal with ambiguities?

Defaulting to the only result in your library is perfectly reasonable, but it the case of a collision, what does it do?

My guess is that it runs through in a loop (I haven't looked at the code) and simply goes with the first result that it finds, but that doesn't cover all possible use cases.

[ravachol → yarg]

Like you said, it just takes the first result it finds. There is -e for exact search, which solves some problems, but it's not a full blown solution.

[yarg → ravachol]

I'm thinking {-s, -l, -a, -p} for {song, album, artist, playlist}.

Unlike the -e solution, it wouldn't make the command significantly more verbose than the default option.

You could also print a list of commands for the specific options (or allow for index based selection) in cases where there were collisions.

[ravachol → yarg]

That's already mostly in. From the readme:

kew dir <album name> (sometimes it's necessary to specify it's a directory you want)

kew song <song> (or a song)

kew list <playlist> (or a playlist)

The directory can be an artist or an album, so there's still ambiguity there. But kew cannot differentiate between the two. It matches against files or against directories.

[yarg → ravachol]

Yeah, to fix that you'd need to add support for media metadata, which I imagine is a little further than you'd want to go.