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Support => Questions => Topic started by: Mikkeltheut on September 29, 2020, 09:53:24 AM

Title: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Mikkeltheut on September 29, 2020, 09:53:24 AM

Anyone knows how to search for album artist instead of "artist" - for example in a link like https://www.google.com/search?&q=<Artist> ?

I have most of my music files tagged with ALL the contributing artists (Main artist, guitar player, bass player, drummer, piano player, etc) but when I do a web search I would love to limit it to just the main (album) artist...

Best regards

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: stardepp on September 29, 2020, 10:14:50 AM

https://www.google.com/search?&q=<Album Artist> <Album>

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Mikkeltheut on September 29, 2020, 12:40:54 PM

Thanks stardepp but for some reason it only searches for/inserts/finds the album and not the album artist when I use the code...

Using Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino as an example it comes up with a search called <Album Artist> Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

??

 

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: phred on September 29, 2020, 01:05:21 PM

Working fine here.

Please post a screenshot of the Internet tab settings showing how you have it entered

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Mikkeltheut on September 29, 2020, 01:28:42 PM

Thanks, phred!
The setting is as follows (in the background you can see the search result):
https://i.imgur.com/oGhzgQc.jpg(https://i.imgur.com/oGhzgQc.jpg)

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: phred on September 29, 2020, 02:03:34 PM

Thanks for the screenshot. I don't see anything amiss in the URL. I assume you copied and pasted directly from stardepps's post, yes?

What happens if you paste the URL in your browser and replace <Album Artist> and <Album> with the actual album artist and album. If that works, there's no reason why it shouldn't work as a custom web link within MB.

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Mikkeltheut on September 29, 2020, 02:35:44 PM

Hi again,

Them it seems to work (check the screenshot below)...

So the problem must be that the search tag (<-if that's the correct term) <Album Artist> somehow can't "connect"/link to the album artist entered in the music file...




https://imgur.com/BtFWF1Y

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: phred on September 29, 2020, 02:58:53 PM

Since it's working for me, and for you when you type it directly into the URL search bar of your browser, the only other thing I can think of is the <Album Artist> tag. If it is empty, MB assumes the <Album Artist> is the same as <Artist>. For the album you're searching is your <Album Artist> tag empty or populated? If it's empty, you may have found a bug, where <Artist> isn't being supplied to the search in lieu of <Album Artist>.

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Mikkeltheut on September 29, 2020, 04:47:01 PM

The Album Artist tag is populated so I don't really know...
Oh well, it's not the end of the world (just odd).

And oops: I've just seen that it's quite clearly stated that this sub forum ("Tips and Tricks") is NOT a forum for asking questions  :-[
Sorry 'bout that!

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: phred on September 29, 2020, 04:55:42 PM

Quote from: Mikkeltheut on September 29, 2020, 04:47:01 PM

And oops: I've just seen that it's quite clearly stated that this sub forum ("Tips and Tricks") is NOT a forum for asking questions  :-[
Sorry 'bout that!

I'll split it off to a new topic in the Questions section. And may wind up moving it to bugs, but I'd like to hear what Steven says about it first.

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: phred on September 29, 2020, 05:02:57 PM

Try using this

Code

https://www.google.com/search?&q=<Album Artist>+<Album>

I'm just taking a guess by adding the plus sign between the two parameters.
I tried it and got the same results with and without the plus.

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Mikkeltheut on September 29, 2020, 06:10:29 PM

Hmm, I've added the + but the search result still comes up as <Album Artist> Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino where I would have expected it to be <Arctic Monkeys> Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino...

Thanks for taking your time trying to help phred!!

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: frankz on September 29, 2020, 06:19:51 PM

Take out the & before q

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Mikkeltheut on September 30, 2020, 06:23:29 AM

Thank you for your input, frankz!
Unfortunately that doesn't work either...
My suspicion is that the problem is not the code as such but more a problem of connecting the tag <Album artist> to the information I've entered in Musicbee?

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Steven on September 30, 2020, 08:53:50 AM

This is actually a bug in the web browser plugin that you are using.

If you replace mb_WebBrowser.dll in the Plugins folder with the unzipped file in this link it should work

http://www.mediafire.com/file/pkhy169yxp306ti/mb_WebBrowser.zip/file

Title: Re: Custom Web Link Not Working
Post by: Mikkeltheut on September 30, 2020, 08:25:52 PM

Aaand: Now it works!!! :D

Thank you Steven, phred, frankz, stardepp and everyone else involved in trying to solve this!

Best regards,
Mikkel