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Questions / Re: Syncing playcounts of short songs with last.fm

« on: May 15, 2024, 06:15:55 PM »

I'm sure I remember from years ago Last.fm intentionally didn't scrobble <30 second songs, to stop people 'competitively' listening, racking up millions of scrobbles by making a 1 second track with a different  song's name so it looks like they're the biggest fan of an artist. I vaguely recall seeing someone with more plays of a new album than if you'd spent 24 hours listening continuously since it was released 

But besides my reminiscing, it might be worth looking at the option for what constitutes a 'played' track, under preferences -> now playing, at the bottom mine says playing 50% or 240 seconds of a track will count, while under 20 seconds will tally as skipped (I don't think I've changed those from the default). Might have some bearing on what gets logged to be sent, but I'm just guessing. And this is probably what you say you've tried but there are some old threads with people addressing this exact issue https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=40336.0

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Questions / Re: Embedding Track Lables in Mix MP3, Displaying in MusicBee

« on: May 15, 2024, 05:44:26 PM »

I have a lot of dj mixes and audiobooks as single mp3 files too. Unless you physically mean splitting the file into multiple mp3s, which can be done using a cuesheet or importing the list of timestamps into a program like Audacity then exporting each part... I think you must be referring to chapters like Steven says.

Personally, I have the lyrics box showing in the sidebar, and with the (timed) tracklist in the lyrics tag, it will either scroll along as you pass each marker (karaoke style), or you can click on the any of the lines in the 'lyrics' and it will jump right to the point that starts. Might be my favourite feature of MB!

The format has to be [00:00] Track 1, [03:30] Track 2 etc. in minutes and seconds, and thousandths of a second if necessary [mm:ss.ttt] . I could explain more if that sort of thing is what you mean, I do this quite often to add extra lines into tracks if I want to make a note at a particular point.

edit: looks like you sorted it while I was typing that, no worries 

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Questions / Re: Compilation albums are being inconsistently split into multiple albums

« on: May 14, 2024, 09:09:11 PM »

I would have thought it was something to do with the <Year> tag too, some sources include the month and day so it ends up as 2024-05-14 instead of just 2024. Also might be worth checking the <Original Year> tag, I don't think MB does but I'm sure there are some players that override the standard 'year' if that has a value.

Otherwise, if you select all that albums' tracks in MB and open the track editor, any fields that have more than one value will have a dropdown box instead of the name displayed. Hopefully one stands out where you know they should all be identical (and do check the Tags (2) tab for some less used).

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Questions / Re: Did something happen to Album Auto-Tagger?

« on: May 14, 2024, 08:53:58 PM »

Yep looks like it's back now, all's well. You've just reminded me I was wondering why Discogs never shows up since I last re-installed as well, turns out I forgot it was a separate plug-in, so I've come away with more information than before the 'blackout'. Cheers!

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Questions / Re: Did something happen to Album Auto-Tagger?

« on: May 13, 2024, 08:45:29 PM »

Ah actually I just thought What's the source website for tagging, and it appears Musicbrainz is down for maintenance if you go to their website. Should simply be a temporary issue, (touch wood).

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Questions / Re: Did something happen to Album Auto-Tagger?

« on: May 13, 2024, 08:40:14 PM »

Came here just to ask this too, I'm pretty sure yesterday it was fine but I haven't got a single hit since opening the program 10 minutes ago. I've tried some single word artist & album names it would impossible to misspell too, but no luck. The cover art searcher does seem to still work however.

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Questions / Re: Change display name for an album.

« on: February 12, 2023, 03:03:08 PM »

You could use a custom tag in the file to state your preferred title, then change the header in artwork view to use a virtual tag that will only use that if it is not empty.

So if you write the "The Mountain" in <Custom10> for example, then make a virtual tag with something like $IsNull(<Custom10>,<Album>,<Custom10>), then go to
preferences -> layout 1 -> main panel -> files: customise layout -> the 'show settings' box halfway down -> then under 'header' the first dropdown box should probably say Album by default, change that to your new virtual tag and you should be sorted.

You could of course change Custom10 to something like Display Name in the tag preferences, then use $IsNull(<Display Name>,<Album>,<Display Name>) which would look neater perhaps.

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Questions / Re: Forward button behaviour when editing track number

« on: November 13, 2022, 11:00:12 AM »

To solve your situation without quite being able to explain it, if you go to the main Musicbee dropdown in the top left, Tools, Tagging Tools, Renumber Tracks, you can number the whole lot in one hit, including with multiple discs or albums. You can also set up a hotkey for that to speed things up.

At a guess, if you think of unnumbered tracks as being 0, when you do number one of them the order would become 0001 and send it to them bottom, now being the largest. And at an even wilder guess, does the tag editor think you're 'forwarding' from position 1 to position 2, then 2 to 3, with no regard for actual tags? When I have edited some tracks manually, I find working backwards is a bit more reliable, as you're moving backwards into the 'static' order you have before. It does seem a bit bizarre sometimes I agree, but it should only have to be done once.

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Questions / Re: 2 Different Albums Under The Same Album

« on: November 01, 2022, 04:24:32 PM »

If you open the tag editor and look under the Sorting tab, I would change the 'sort as' album tag to the same thing for both discs, so they will group together while keeping separate original tags. Then you might need to change your library's 'Sort By' order to use <Sort Album> instead of simply <Album>.

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Questions / Re: How can I have it sorted Alphabetically and then Numbers and then specials?

« on: November 01, 2022, 04:00:59 PM »

This one seems to work like you asked:

$If($IsMatch($Left(<Sort Album>,1),"A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z"),<Sort Album>,
$If($IsMatch($Left(<Sort Album>,1),"1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0"),"zzz"<Sort Album>,"zzzzz"<Sort Album>))

You should still be able to type "zzz20" on the keyboard to jump to "20 Jazz Funk Greats", or you can of course adjust the amount of zzzs for all your ZZ Top needs.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Allow to remove line gap between discs

« on: November 01, 2022, 03:43:53 PM »

I was going to write there is sort of an option for this in the 'Artwork' view (I take it this is in the 'Album and Tracks' layout?), there's a dropdown box called 'sub-grouping header:' where you can choose which tag to use instead of only Disc#.  For instance, I have a virtual tag set up so that if the Grouping tag is "Podcast" or "Mix",  the header will display the year instead of the disc (I have hundreds in some albums, don't ask ). But actually I've just checked and if you remove any header at all, it still splits by discs with an empty line, and my podcast-year thing only works when there is no disc number.  So ultimately it would simply be nice to not have <Disc#> override all.

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Questions / Re: How can I have it sorted Alphabetically and then Numbers and then specials?

« on: November 01, 2022, 02:06:44 PM »

You could make a virtual tag and use this, add extra symbols to your liking where the "1|2|3..." bit is:
$If($IsMatch($Left(<Album>,1),"#|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|0"),"zzz"<Album>,<Album>)

Or I could probably make an A-Z, numbers, #!? order, when I've had some more coffee  

Or it should be possible to make a tag that would list "5" as "Five", so "3 Feet High and Rising" would become "Three Feet...", if that would be useful? There's always the <Sort Album> tag as well, for when you want to turn bands like !!! into Chk Chk Chk.

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Questions / Re: How to? Different folders in 2 tabs

« on: October 10, 2022, 09:50:31 PM »

You could try making an auto-playlist for each folder, with the rule "Path" "starts with" C:\Music\All Bands... (for example), and another playlist leading to the other folder. I find keeping playlists open in different tabs a bit more stable than separate parts of the main library, when using different sort orders at least.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Sort-order hotkeys

« on: April 04, 2020, 03:19:34 PM »

Loving MB as always, so much so I spend a fair bit of time creating new sorting methods (with varying degrees of success in my code writing). Instead of right click then scroll down 2 separate menus, would it be possible to implement a few hotkeys to flick between orders, or maybe an action button next to the tabs?

I currently use ctrl+1, ctrl+2 etc. to switch between album views which is really useful, perhaps similar could be done with the 8 custom orders? I see the 'send to external application' keys go this method, but I'd be happy with a top 5, 3 podium spots, even if a few became recreations of the simpler default orders. Or do both of course  



I did have a dig through old posts, this one from 2012 suggests there was something added, and another user asked if there could be an on/off toggle for a default order, but for the life of me I can't find anything related to it in the program options.

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Questions / Re: Deleted 2 entire tags, is recovery possible?

« on: September 24, 2019, 10:33:30 PM »

Thanks for the quick reply and the test, thought that might be the case. I suppose I was expecting the location of the tag to be the only change, not the information contained as well.  The 'swap tag' tool is so useful normally, I must have got a bit complacent. I'll look into backups asap.

That really could do with a warning or suggestion to set it up before adding content! Hope this stops someone else doing the same at least, learn by other's mistakes as they say.