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Questions / MB windows go missing with 3 monitors

« on: December 27, 2024, 11:55:46 PM »

This has only gotten worse lately.

Predictably (though not predictably "where"), pop-up windows will never show up, and then you can't do anything in MB because it's waiting on something to happen in that pop-up.  It used to be, if I moved something from the inbox to the music library, the (unnecessarily elongated) pop-up window is mostly hiding, mostly off-screen of ONE of the monitors (like I said, where this happens is random, but it happens consistently).  It happens most often when MB is in the leftmost window: slivers of pop-ups used to appear on the far right edge of the 3rd monitor.  Now they don't even show up as splinters.

This is a problem, because you can't just Alt-Tab to the missing window.  Ergo, if I am trying to add files from the music library, or if I need to Edit a file, the pop-up just does not show up.  Prior behaviour was that a small part of the window was "somewhere" and it would be on me to go drag it back to the monitor where MB is running.

Issues:
-- You can't see the pop-up window
-- You can't Alt-Tab to the PU window
-- You can't switch to it in Task Manager

Restarting MB doesn't work.
Rebooting doesn't fix it.

My workaround:

Stop MB
Reboot
start MB
MOVE the MB window to the PRIMARY MONITOR (#2 in my case)
Stop MB
Restart MB and the pop-ups will stay fairly close to the MB window.
Suffer with MB not being able to play nicely on 2nd or 3rd monitors.

Anyone else see this behaviour?

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Questions / Re: Why are there leading numbers when I "Copy files to a folder"?

« on: August 01, 2023, 08:09:52 PM »

Alright, consider this answered.

thanks for the links

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Questions / Re: Why are there leading numbers when I "Copy files to a folder"?

« on: August 01, 2023, 08:05:54 PM »

001-<Disc-Track> <Title>
002-<Disc-Track> <Title>
003-<Disc-Track> <Title>
...isn't a discernable pattern?
[/quote]

"Giants" doesn't match your example, so...no, I hadn't discerned that.

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Questions / Re: Where is the list of genre stored?

« on: August 01, 2023, 06:51:33 PM »

OK, if the custom ones are only stored in the metadata of the track, then that explains why I can't find a list of them, which also explains why I can't create a list of them.

Sounds like AFR and some bulk-editing will do what I want, but text editing will not.

Thanks.

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Questions / Re: Why are there leading numbers when I "Copy files to a folder"?

« on: August 01, 2023, 06:50:04 PM »

I just noticed something: the Windows Explorer folder thinks the track number is different than what the filename is OR what the Track # is in the ID3.  And it looks like Windows is appending a number that matches what it thinks the track # is to the back of whatever number MB is adding, and if there isn't one, Windows just assigns a "1" and MB doesn't add that to its random number.

Hmm...

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Questions / Re: Why are there leading numbers when I "Copy files to a folder"?

« on: August 01, 2023, 06:44:09 PM »

Also, the idea of keeping track of playlists doesn't make sense either, because the number isn't the same.  I have hundreds of playlists in MB, so in the above example, according to one suggestion, those numbers should all begin "401," and they don't, they're sequential.

So i tried again, just to be sure, with a much larger playlist.  Again: the tracks are arbitrarily numbered sequentially, and it doesn't make a difference if it's an MP3 or a FLAC, the numbering schema has no discernible pattern.

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Questions / Re: Why are there leading numbers when I "Copy files to a folder"?

« on: August 01, 2023, 06:34:04 PM »

That doesn't make any sense.  This specific playlist only has 90 tracks in it.

When those same files are copied in organized folders, the numbers don't exist.  When a playlist is copied (not synchronized, but maybe it's the same mechanism), it puts all the files in a new directory, with all those numbers there.

Again: sometimes it's a single number, sometimes there's a hyphen between two, sometimes it's 2 numbers.  That numbering does not exist in the organized folder option.

And there is a way around that, but I want to know if MB will just not make the mistake to begin with so the way around it is unnecessary.

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Questions / Re: Where is the list of genre stored?

« on: August 01, 2023, 05:15:50 PM »

This isn't all the genres, though, and some of these don't pull-down.

When I make a custom genre, where is that data stored other than in the metadata for the track?  There has to be a place where it's stored, because it'll pop up as an option the next time I edit a track.

Thanks for the lead, but it's not quite what I was looking for.

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Questions / Re: How to maintain sorting / shuffle criteria for individual playlists

« on: August 01, 2023, 05:12:20 PM »

Sweet!  Thanks!

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Questions / Re: Why are there leading numbers when I "Copy files to a folder"?

« on: August 01, 2023, 05:10:54 PM »

No, those numbers aren't there.  Also, look at the numbers in my example, they are way too close to each other.  Also, when I do the "organized folder" route, there are no numbers.

Here's an example specifically chosen from the above screenshot.

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Questions / Why are there leading numbers when I "Copy files to a folder"?

« on: August 01, 2023, 02:29:40 AM »

So if I decide to make an impromptu copy of a playlist, and use the feature shown in the below screen-cap, the folder I copy to ends up with all these numbers in front of the tracks.  Some are hyphenated, some are not.

The reason this is a problem is that if I copy to a USB drive, then use that drive as the source for a playlist in my Android-powered car stereo, it sorts completely differently.  Also, it's difficult to chop of a specific number of leading characters, because sometimes it's 3 digits, sometimes it's 3 plus a hyphen, plus 2 or 3 more.

Obviously, sending to an Organized Folder puts the tracks in their subdirectories with no leading numbers, but this copy-to-common-directory does not.

Any ideas on why this is happening (or how to make it stop)?

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Questions / How to maintain sorting / shuffle criteria for individual playlists

« on: August 01, 2023, 02:16:04 AM »

The issue I see is that if I have a playlist and I sort it by time, then every playlist I open is sorted by time.

I'd like different playlists to have different sort criteria.  One shuffled, one by time, one by artist, you get the idea.  I don't like making a change and then having to un-do it when I want to listen to an album, let's say.

What's the best way to do that?

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Questions / Where is the list of genre stored?

« on: August 01, 2023, 02:13:50 AM »

Would like to know if there's an easier way to delete irrelevant genres and input my own custom genres.

Hopefully, it's a text file somewhere.  If not, I'll do it manually, but I'm hoping not.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: An API (or way to script things)

« on: July 17, 2023, 11:52:22 PM »

@zlurg, i've updated "Replace full date with year in <Tag 1>" ASR preset

Perfect.  Works great, thanks for being the bigger man.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: An API (or way to script things)

« on: July 17, 2023, 11:50:21 PM »

isn't it a bit mean, @zlurg?

Yes, I deserved that, guilty as charged.  I humbly apologize.  After writing that, I tried to screenshot what I was seeing and found that your instructions work fine if the options are present.  They are not present until you actually click the button.  I suggest a minor addition to the documentation.

So I apologize.