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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Virtual tags: add a real scripting language

« on: June 26, 2025, 06:42:28 PM »

I do save some of the bigger formulas in a separate text file, but again, this doesn't solve mostof the major issues and also adds a few downsides on its own.

Also the infrequent part makes it worse because by the next time you edit some tag in a few months you'll forget all the weird $eq insead of = and RxReplaces etc., or maybe even forget that you can't use the tag field directly since it's stored non-locally and risk having verison mismatches. And you can't even have proper inline comments to add reminders!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Virtual tags: add a real scripting language

« on: June 26, 2025, 04:50:42 PM »

when any user can easily use a advanced text editor like notepad CC+ to create/edit their virtual tag scripts and then copy & paste them into musicbee.

That's not true, I'm doing that, and it doesn't resolve the biggest issues, you wouldn't even get to preserve your notepad formatting since MB reformats the field on save. You'd only get brackets highlights and un/re-do stack. But then you'd have an extra complication of constantly going back&forth to insert-then-copy fields/functions and for testing (likely with select all/paste as it's the easiest, which would reduce the usefulness of your undo stack).

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Allow setting custom left/right padding for columns and disable ...

« on: June 23, 2025, 08:08:52 PM »

And I can imagine that perhaps being problematic for certain low-contrast skins.

That's trivially solved by allowing customizable/themed color
Also the current solution has more complications

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Add "Love" field type to allow replicating Love column functionality

« on: June 23, 2025, 08:02:13 PM »

That's fine if the widespread ban functionality is tied to the primary love, you could still add filters to playlists etc to exclude bans if you like.
What is missing now is the convenience of setting the value

Would the binary field you suggest allow maintaining the original data of the love field (helpful since that field is recognized in some other apps)? If is strictly a more general solution that seems better.

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Questions / Re: Custom LOVE rating column behaving like the default

« on: June 23, 2025, 02:38:49 PM »

Good idea, added to the suggestions

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=43118.0

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MusicBee Wishlist / Add "Love" field type to allow replicating Love column functionality

« on: June 23, 2025, 02:38:17 PM »

This is based on https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=43111.msg236634#msg236634

The idea is to be able to replicate the love /ban UI functionality with a custom user tag in the same way you can do it for the rating tag.
While currently you can partially replicate the looks and data in a custom Love tag, but you can't replicate the ease of a single click to set the love/ban value

The original reason was to be able to have custom rating/love tags for different users in the same database.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Allow setting custom left/right padding for columns and disable ...

« on: June 23, 2025, 02:30:45 PM »

You misunderstood it again. The post is about an improvement in UI, not about the simplicity of wasting time hovering your mouse around. And that option will always be available to you!

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Questions / Re: Custom LOVE rating column behaving like the default

« on: June 23, 2025, 01:27:02 PM »

Thanks, I know and use the custom rating for the same purpose, that's exactly what prompted this question - was wondering how to do the same for a love rating

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Allow setting custom left/right padding for columns and disable ...

« on: June 23, 2025, 01:25:28 PM »

good idea. alternatively, maybe, show 1, 2 or 3 last letters after ... (e.g., "long song ti...e")

This still wastes a letter that you could fit instead of ..., and also doesn't completely resolve ambiguity as "long title... " with a word after 1 extra char (space in this case) look be the same as "short title..." with ... in a name. But maybe in some cases it'd be more readable with a word ending

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Allow setting custom left/right padding for columns and disable ...

« on: June 23, 2025, 01:21:21 PM »

-1 to this, unless it's optional of course.

Which part of "Allow setting custom" suggests otherwise???

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MusicBee Wishlist / Allow setting custom left/right padding for columns and disable ...

« on: June 23, 2025, 10:01:28 AM »

I'd like some columns to have 0 padding to fit as much text as possible in a table, for example, the default for a Year can fit 2 whole chars when the whole year is 4 (so takes 50% more space than necessary) in the left/right margins

Similarly, instead of losing the last letter in a text to ... when it doesn't fit (which can be confusing since some names include ... at the end, so you don't really know whether the fult text fits or not) it'd be better to have an option to simply re-color the last couple of letters in light gray to indicate that the text doesn't fit.

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Questions / Re: Custom LOVE rating column behaving like the default

« on: June 23, 2025, 09:53:12 AM »

$If($Or(<Love>="L",<CustomLove>="❤️"),love,)

Thanks for trying to help! But this only affects the visual part, doesn't help with the convenience of editing (by the way, is it possible like in mp3tag to have a column display some complicated text from multiple tags like in this formula, but edit only a specific tag like <CustomLove>?), and still leaves the data incompatible, so you wouldn't be able to simply copy from one loved tag to another, but would need to create more rules to convert Ls into ❤️s and vice versa and remember to use them instead of the more common copy tags operation.

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Questions / Re: Custom LOVE rating column behaving like the default

« on: June 22, 2025, 03:01:58 PM »

No, I want my 'CustomLove' column to be compatible with the actual 'Love' one so I could easily move values from one to another and also use the same formulas in my virtual tags without having to worry about different values (L vs unicode ❤️). The changes will be separate.

The overarching idea is to be able to have love tags for multiple people in the same library that behave identically UI-wise

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Questions / Re: Custom LOVE rating column behaving like the default

« on: June 22, 2025, 02:13:30 PM »

Thanks, but that would break the L/B values that I use to match the default tag since I synced those fields with the original Loved tag.

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Questions / Re: Can't save naming templates in File Organizer

« on: June 22, 2025, 12:14:12 PM »

Thanks, but this affects both the folder and the naming template, while I only need to save the naming rules, and I can't save edits without changing files (already lost my edits this way by opening another window that auto-closed the file organizer template editor)