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TheaterMode / Re: Motion Pictures (Fullscreen TM)

« on: October 04, 2022, 03:20:39 PM »

That's strange. Why don't you try manually adding it by going to view > Theater Mode > Add Skin?

Thanks this actually worked, but unfortunately it does not work properly I'm not sure why. Only the images of the artist that I am playing come up as a large picture on the right hand side .
AM I missing something? I would love to get this working properly. Most other theatre mode skins  work fine for me

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TheaterMode / Re: Motion Pictures (Fullscreen TM)

« on: October 02, 2022, 10:15:49 PM »

I might need to revise the manner in which I've worded these instructions.

- In the zip you downloaded, there is this file: Motion Pictures.xml
- Open it and in the first few lines, you will see the formulae shown in that linked screenshot.
- Copy each of the formulae to whichever virtual tag number they correspond with in MusicBee.

So after opening the virtual tag panel in Preferences -> Tags(1) -> under custom tags -> Define New Tags...
Scroll down to virtual tag #24 and paste this code in there:

Code

$Upper(<.Ext>), <Sample Rate>, <Bitrate>, <Channels>, <Time>

Repeat this step for the other virtual tags as well.
Once these are set up, you'll see various figures being displayed in different views inside the Theater Mode (figures like the total number of tracks by an artist, etc.)

Thanks very much . I now understand and done this easy enough.
However the option for the Motion Pictures theater mode does not appear on this dropdown list?
I download /extracted the xml file and images folder into the theatre mode list folder.
Ive restarted music bee but it has not come up on the drop down list unfortunately

Am I doing something wrong here? 

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TheaterMode / Re: Motion Pictures (Fullscreen TM)

« on: October 02, 2022, 04:14:43 PM »

HI There would someone please be so kind as to help me out to get this theater mode set up?

I am not that technical , I can do step one above but I get to step 2 and i am totally confused :
• Inside MusicBee, go to Preferences -> Tags(1) -> under custom tags -> Define New Tags...
   then copy & paste the formulae commented out in the xml file into their respective virtual tag slots.

any help here really appreciated thank you

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Questions / How do I change the font on a playing track?

« on: September 22, 2017, 06:46:14 PM »

 It is currently in yellow and very hard to see

thank you

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Tips and Tricks / Re: How to Display Movie Backdrops for Soundtrack Music

« on: May 11, 2017, 07:59:26 PM »

Hi Guys,

I have a question re this feature.... i have it working for some movie soundtracks but for most I do not. For example 'The Lost World' ...
I have set to the same title as here https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/46999-the-lost-world
but still no joy as it is still just rotating pics of John Williams?

another example is 'Walk the Line' - I have 'Soundtrack set as one of the Genres too (although 'Country' as well, but that should not matter right?)?

Any help appreciated ...it's a great feature , be great to get it working more consistently... thank you

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Plugins / Re: Theater Mode Plugin

« on: April 30, 2017, 02:53:48 PM »

Hi, i have been trying to figure out how to get MB to pull artist pics from MusicBee/Library/Artist Pictures folder , rather than
the internet. Please, how is it possible to do this? thanks

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee is randomly deleting files on me??? whats going on?

« on: April 23, 2017, 08:34:52 PM »

It seems to be files from my external hard-drives (more than one) ,, funny thing is that there doesn't seem to be any more
space on the external hard drive even though the file has dissapeared , so i suspect it it there somewhere but just cannot find it.
Any help would be appreciated thank you

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee is randomly deleting files on me??? whats going on?

« on: April 23, 2017, 04:24:14 PM »

I just done a 'dead links' report on MediaMonkey. Over 1,000 of my 300k file have disappeared from the location path
they were supposed to be in. This is all because I was updating the artwork tags of the files. MusicBee should not
be moving the location of any files to a temp folder. Luckily I have the files backed up but it is a bit of a nightmare
to be honest

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee is randomly deleting files on me??? whats going on?

« on: April 23, 2017, 12:35:13 PM »

I have spent some time rechecking the code and I can imagine one possibility for this to happen - its not random deletion though.
When saving tags to a file where MB needs to rewrite the entire file (which doesnt normally happen often), MB initially writes the data to the windows temporary files folder and when done renames it to replace the existing file. If MB has removed the old file but is unable move the temporary file eg. it is being locked by your security software while it scans the file, then the file will only exist in the windows temporary files folder.

I have made a few changes to improve the handling for that scenario.

for v3.0:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_0/MusicBee3_Patched.zip

for v3.1:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip

unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

Would you mind giving me the location of the temp folder that musicbee stores the deleted file in? thank you

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee is randomly deleting files on me??? whats going on?

« on: April 16, 2017, 10:47:16 PM »

Thanks very much. I have a very large library of 200k files and what happened was when i added them to music bee some
of them lost the artwork. So i had to spend a lot of time tagging the art on the files and every so often it pops us a message
'file no longer exists at expected location'. I will try the fix thanks very much


I used to used Media Monkey as for years it was the best music player, but compared to MusicBee it is very clunky and not user
friendly. I especially love the Auto DJ function where you can play similar artists integrated with last fm. Loving the 'theatre mode'
as well. I will be sticking with Music Bee and telling all my friends about it. thanks again

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee is randomly deleting files on me??? whats going on?

« on: April 11, 2017, 03:22:41 PM »

Hi, I downloaded musicbee (was going top transfer from mediamonkey) and was sorting my music collection (album art) when it started to delete files at random from the source folders. Maybe just one or two tracks. I could not find those tracks anywhere even in the trash folder. This is absolutely unacceptable and not matter how great musicbees features might be this makes it null and void. Back to mediamonkey for me

any help would be appreciated thank you

musicbee doesnt have a random automatic file delete function and when MB does delete files, they get deleted to the recycle bin. And if what you say really were true dont you think there would be a large number of angry posts about this on the forum? Your wording comes accross to me as wither written by a troll or as someone who has used library auto-organise or auto-sweep features that they dont understand.

Firstly I take issue with you accusing me of being a troll. I have not used any of the auto organise features or autosweep features.

Secondly, i am not the first user to have this issue:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=14990.0

Why are you so defensive/dismissive when i am reporting this problem to you? It is a real problem , i am not making it up.

Also, I have all my files backed up so that is not an issue. But half a dozen times files have just been deleted and no trace of them. All I was
doing was using the 'auto tag by track function'

Thanks for other users who tried to help

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Bug Reports / Musicbee is randomly deleting files on me??? whats going on?

« on: April 09, 2017, 10:25:37 PM »

Hi, I downloaded musicbee (was going top transfer from mediamonkey) and was sorting my music collection (album art) when it started to delete files at random from the source folders. Maybe just one or two tracks. I could not find those tracks anywhere even in the trash folder. This is absolutely unacceptable and not matter how great musicbees features might be this makes it null and void. Back to mediamonkey for me

any help would be appreciated thank you