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Bug Reports / Re: Issue with Automatic Sample Rate Switching in MusicBee 3.6.x

« on: April 10, 2025, 07:15:11 AM »

Sound as if this has nothing to do with my bug report.
Can you please write a separate bug report?
This here is an old issue that was fixed and now came back in 3.6.
You can't play back music with different sample rates.
Not 100% sure, whether this was a generic issue or only limited to ASIO drivers.
But after all it sounds a little bit different than your case. Thanks.

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Bug Reports / Issue with Automatic Sample Rate Switching in MusicBee 3.6.x

« on: April 03, 2025, 06:04:48 PM »

Hi,
I installed MusicBee 3.6.x this morning, and it reintroduced an old issue—MusicBee no longer changes the sample rate automatically.
When the sample rate changes then contend of higher sample rate is being played much too slow.

I restored my backup from this morning with version 3.5.8698, and everything works as expected there.
Could you kindly check and fix this in the latest release? That would be fantastic.

When I requested this a few years ago, MusicBee was one of the few players that supported automatic sample rate switching
for music content (though not ASIO buffer size changes like DAWs).
This feature is crucial for users with large libraries containing tracks of different sample rates.

Many thanks in advance.

System Info:
    Windows 10 Pro 22H2
    RME UFX III, ASIO driver: MADIface driver 1.0

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Locking of volume to 0dB

« on: September 16, 2024, 10:17:24 AM »

I am not a big fan of plugins, because of security. I prefer to have one source of code.

Fair comment. But given that MusicBee is a one man project, there just isn't enough time in the world to get all the relatively simple things done.
Hence why Steven introduced the API - to have other developers help with features too time-consuming for him to maintain, or get involved with...amongst other things.

+1

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Questions / Re: The best way of deleting music without producing orphaned entries?

« on: September 15, 2024, 05:25:19 PM »

I would definitely recommend deleting files through MusicBee - in this way all the library and any playlist entries will be removed.

Deleting files with Windows Explorer (or similar) will leave you with further work to do to clean up the MusicBee database and, while the library entries are fairly easy to deal with, playlists can get a little messy.

Thanks, this is what I already feared. I am glad that you could confirm this :-)

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Locking of volume to 0dB

« on: September 15, 2024, 04:30:34 PM »

Works great.

Would still love though, that such relatively simple things are integrated into MusicBee.

I am not a big fan of plugins, because of security. I prefer to have one source of code.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Locking of volume to 0dB

« on: September 15, 2024, 03:09:21 PM »

Please support locking of volume to 0dB.

In rare cases I click wrong with the mouse and move the volume fader a little bit away from 0dB
and this stays undetected for a while ...

I would like to avoid it because I want to guarantee a "bit perfect transmission" of digital audio
from the MusicBee player up to the DSP in the ADI-2 Pro FS R BE.

I think I requested it already some time ago, but it was sadly never be implemented.

Could you kindly review / rethink? Many thanks.

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Questions / The best way of deleting music without producing orphaned entries?

« on: September 15, 2024, 03:03:53 PM »

I want to clean-up my grown music library.
What is the best way?

Simply to remove the songs / folders of CD's that I do not like anymore in the PC's filesystem?

Would MusicBee recognize automatically that the music is not there anymore
and remove it automatically from its database or maybe even playlists?

Or do I need to remove the songs in MusicBee?

Whats is the best way without having after issues or restwork afterwards?

Many thanks.

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Bug Reports / Re: 3.5.8447: Problem, hundreds of playlists that I didn't create

« on: September 12, 2024, 08:17:43 PM »

Excellent idea. I didn't think about that ... Thanks for your fast and kind support.

Noticed under "My Music" that there is a MusicBee folder and there a Playlist folder.
At the 07.09. many .mbp file were added .. I deleted all of them according to the file creation date.
Now everything is cleaned in one sweep. Wondering what the creation of all these files have issued.

Now all is fine again, superb ! :-)

Many thans.

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Bug Reports / [Solved] 3.5.8447: Problem, hundreds of playlists that I didn't create

« on: September 12, 2024, 05:57:28 PM »

Hi,

I am not sure when / how this happened.
Of all sudden I see, that I have now "felt hundreds" of playlists.

I personally configured only around 20 or so, but I can't find them anymore, because they are somewhere in between the "hundreds" of other ones.



What happened, how can I get rid of this to see again "MY" personal playlists again.

I loaded older config files, it doesn't seem to be configuration related as it doesn't vanish.

Thanks for any help.

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Tips and Tricks / Fix to make MusicBee remote working again under Win10

« on: August 03, 2022, 08:01:53 AM »

I think after a few Windows updates the rights in the Firewall were not correctly anymore.

The MusicBee Remote installer only updates the rights for the plugin, but not for the MusicBee application.

So you need to allow MusicBee access to private (and/or public) network.

Then MusicBee remote is working again.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Miniplayer, button to turn intelligent volume control on/off

« on: February 10, 2022, 06:10:46 PM »

Thanks. I tried that, but it doesn't work really satisfactory if you want to toggle between "off" and "smart".

A few observations:
1. There is one function that enables "replay gain smart", but doesn't support toggle to also disable it, it simply activates it and it stays on.
2. When using "Toggle volume adjustment" (de: Wiedergabe Lautstärkeanpassung umschalten) I am toggling between all possible modes.
3. Once turned off, then it needs three more keypresses to turn "replay gain smart" back on.
4. Additionally it's easy to loose the overview, in which replay gain mode you are, especially when the replay gain values are low.
    I would wish additionally for an indicator, which replay gain tag is in use, if enabled: intelligent | title | album.

Many thanks though for your kind suggestion.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Miniplayer, button to turn intelligent volume control on/off

« on: February 09, 2022, 09:10:31 AM »

When evaluating music material and its maximum level above 0dBFS (OVR's) with RME DIGIcheck Totalyser and EBU R 128 meters, as well as the correctness of  replay gain tag being used for a song, I would like to have the ability to quickly enable and disable intelligent volume adjustment in the miniplayer.

Since I only have Full-HD monitor/resolution and the DIGIcheck windows already take up quite a bit of space, it would be very helpful here to not have to keep opening the MusikBee all the way, which would also be more click work.

Maybe this additional button could be made customizable, so that one or the other can customize this according to his demand.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Wish for a function to fix volume at 100% to ensure lossless audio playback

« on: July 09, 2021, 12:37:38 PM »

Hi

as the title says I wish for a function to lock the playback volume at 100% to ensure lossles audio playback.

From time to time I detect that MusicBee volume is not at 100% anymore. I can only assume that I touched/moved the volume fader accidently.
It would be fantastic if such a volume change could be blocked entirely by a configuration option.

Background information: I am exclusively using the volume knob of my RME D/A converter (ADI-2 Pro FS R BE).
Such a lock would also ensure that the "Bit test" function of this device does not fail, because the volume is not at 100%.
Bittest is an end to end test, whether your audio chain is lossless, by playing back a .wav tesfile of a few seconds
and if it arrived lossless in good shape, then you get a notification about that in the display. Very useful !

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Bug Reports / Re: 3.4.7662: message "One or more files do not exist at the expected location"

« on: December 26, 2020, 06:17:22 PM »

May I propose two things

A) to log this in the error log as the "!" signs can not be detected n a very long list of files.

B) maybe to think about something like a scan or validation mode that checks for differencies between files on disk and the MB library ?
Which supports the user to fix some things that could occurr easily:

- update Meta Information from files to the MusicBee library
- add entries in the MB library if new files were found
and also
- warn if there are titles in the MB library with a path that is not in the list of folders to be tracked for updates
  and to ask the user whether those folders should be added to the list of folders to be tracked
  or alternativey, whether the entries in the MB library should be removed

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Bug Reports / Re: 3.4.7662: message "One or more files do not exist at the expected location"

« on: December 26, 2020, 05:59:43 PM »

Solved. "Mysterious ways" indeed

The current playback window has in the 1st column smth that looks to me like a selection field.
There I found a couple of titles marked with a "White Exclamation Mark" sign in a black filled circle.
You can luckily sort this colum, there I found around 10 files.

Strange thing: all those files from a folder that is not in the list of folders anymore.
Even stranger, that it pops up from yesterday to today.

I remember, that I performed a Win10 fresh install around October this year.
And when I newly installed MusicBee then I entered only this directory to scan for Music: K:\<myname>\Eigene Music

The other files (test wav files for a particular D/A converter) were under K:\data\Software\driver\.....

Maybe some left-over entries from the past ..

What irritates me is, that this popped up now without having changed anything in that regards.
Neither I changed the folders which I scan, nor did I remove anything under K:\data\Softwar\driver.

I really do not know what happened. Thanks anyway for your kind help and time.