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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: psychoadept on November 23, 2024, 06:22:27 PM
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Pretty straightforward. I have a whole collection of playlists that I keep locked unless I'm actively editing them. But I'm paranoid about accidentally leaving one unlocked. Would be nice to have some kind of visual confirmation of whether they're locked or not.
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https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee36_Patched.zip
also i have changed the implementation of locked playlists so it now sets the actual playlist file to read-only
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Great, thanks!
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Pretty straightforward. I have a whole collection of playlists that I keep locked unless I'm actively editing them. But I'm paranoid about accidentally leaving one unlocked. Would be nice to have some kind of visual confirmation of whether they're locked or not.
I applied this patch, but I'm not seeing any difference in my locked playlists and I'm still able to edit the playlist while locked.
Maybe I'm not locking the playlist correctly.
I right clicked on the playlist and select 'Lock Playlist'. I also set Navigation Lock to Full.
Thanks for any tips...
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I applied this patch, but I'm not seeing any difference in my locked playlists and I'm still able to edit the playlist while locked.
Maybe I'm not locking the playlist correctly.
I right clicked on the playlist and select 'Lock Playlist'. I also set Navigation Lock to Full.
Thanks for any tips...
Navigation lock wouldn't have anything to do with it, but you should definitely be seeing a padlock icon and not be able to edit the playlist if "Lock Playlist" is checked in the right click menu. I even replaced an .mp3 with an .m4a file and I had to manually update the playlist to match because the extension couldn't be changed while it was read-only.
What version does MusicBee say you're on? Mine is 3.6.9103 P. Prior to this change, I could add a track to a playlist using the "include in playlist" menu option, but I couldn't make any direct changes without unlocking it, and if I deleted a track that was in the playlist, it would still be in the playlist, but marked as missing.
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I'm on version 3.6.9103.
I have MusicBee installed on my desktop and laptop. The Playlist is working on my desktop, but not on the laptop.
Both are the same version.
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When you say it's working, do you mean the lock playlist feature is working? Are you accessing the same files in both cases, or do you have separate files?
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The lock playlist setting is working on the desktop, but not the laptop. Both PC's are the same MusicBee version.
Same files.
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I wonder if there's some interference with the shared files.
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My initial thought was that making locked playlists read only was a good idea. The first issue I ran into was the format change I mentioned, but that seemed like a reasonable thing to have to update the playlist for.
However, I just realized/discovered that this is causing playlists to break even over basic tag changes. I changed the title of a track, and it disappeared from the playlist because the file name changed to match. That makes locked playlists a lot more work to maintain, when the basic idea is to protect the playlist from accidental changes like a deleted files. At least for MusicBee's own playlist format, making it read only doesn't seem like it would make much difference anyway, since it wouldn't be edited externally. And for basic .m3u files I'd think if someone knows their way around playlists well enough to edit it manually, they'd have to be making an intentional change.
So maybe read only is overkill.
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this should work better
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee36_Patched.zip
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Just did a format replace and it looks good, thanks