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Skins / Re: Centrol Dark + Centrol Light — High DPI bitmap skin with centered media controls

« on: March 29, 2023, 12:56:51 PM »

Looks beautiful!

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Questions / Conditioning on multiple versions of album?

« on: March 11, 2023, 11:55:29 AM »

Hi,

would it be possible to create a virtual tag that checks the MB library for multiple versions of an album (e.g. MusicBrainz Release ID)? I'm playing with the idea of a folder template that only adds catalog#, country and album mastering if I have multiple versions of the album.

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Questions / Re: Problem with $if(<field>=<field>...

« on: March 11, 2023, 11:25:24 AM »

MB isnt handling 4 digit years as a date
This should fix the issue:
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee35_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

Thank you Steven, that fixed it!
And thanks Vincent for trying to help!

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Questions / Problem with $if(<field>=<field>...

« on: March 10, 2023, 08:24:10 AM »

I'm having a strange problem with the $if(<field>=<field>,true-value, false-value) function. I'm trying to create a template that adds some information if <year> is different from <original year> (basically add country and mastering). However, I can't get it to work, as can be seen in the screenshot.



Here are the information in Tag Inspector:





Isn't it strange that the equal sign and less than sign give the results they do?

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Skins / Re: Centrol Dark + Centrol Light — High DPI bitmap skin with centered media controls

« on: March 10, 2023, 07:58:28 AM »

Would it be possible to raise the contrast of the text in the status bar just a bit higher? I find the text in Dark just a tiny bit too dark, and the opposite in Light.

How to change the colours of a skin that you like.
 

Thank you! With a bit of color picking, it all went perfectly well!

A tiny bit strange for me was that while the status bar text was found in

 element id="Panel.StatusBar.Default"

I could not only change the fg for the text, because then the bg went all black, so I needed to at least include bg:
 <element id="Panel.StatusBar.Default" bg="47,53,61" fg="240,240,240" />

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Questions / Re: Web links doesn't bring tags into search

« on: March 09, 2023, 10:12:01 PM »

Ah, as expected, it's all my fault. I just realized that the right-click menu has a checkbox for Played Track vs Selected Tracks! MB vs me, 1-0...

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Questions / Re: Web links doesn't bring tags into search

« on: March 09, 2023, 09:54:20 PM »

As you can Run MusiBee, can you install a typical Win browser like Chrome?
Have you verified the tags are actually populated?

Ok, I finally figured this out, although I'm still a bit confused. I installed Chrome (in the Windows 11 installation in Parallels), but the problem persisted. Then I realized that the description within the Web links configuration menu actually states that the search is for the playing track. Since I don't use MB for playing, no track was "loaded". When playing a track, the links work. After stopping, the album seems "loaded" in the Track Information panel, and will be the one I search for when clicking the links, even if I stop the playback. Then I have to press play on a track in a different album to "activate" this album and make the links work.
I have no recollection of this behaviour previously, is this new? I must admit, I don't really see the rationale?

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Questions / Re: Web links doesn't bring tags into search

« on: March 09, 2023, 01:24:29 PM »

Thanks for helping out Phred! I just assigned Safari as the default browser in Windows, and the problem persists. Very strange, this must be something on the Parallels' side.

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Skins / Re: Centrol Dark + Centrol Light — High DPI bitmap skin with centered media controls

« on: March 09, 2023, 11:44:45 AM »

This is a great skin, thank you very much! Would it be possible to raise the contrast of the text in the status bar just a bit higher? I find the text in Dark just a tiny bit too dark, and the opposite in Light.
Thanks again for such a well-composed skin!

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Questions / Web links doesn't bring tags into search

« on: March 09, 2023, 07:41:18 AM »

Moving over to Mac, I'm still using MusicBee through Parallels Desktop. I've had to recreate everything, though (because of an HDD crash), and I've suddenly run into a problem with the Web links. Despite using templates as per recommendations here on the forum, like

https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=<Artist> <Album>
https://www.google.com/search?&q=<Artist> <Album>

The problem is that the tags doesn't follow through to the browser (Edge in the WIndows 11 installation). For example, in the Discogs template, it just ends up with

https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=%20

If I, however, add pure text to the Web link, like

https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=<Artist> <Album> test text

then the resulting search becomes

https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=%20%20test%20text

Could this be because of Parallels?

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Questions / Re: New folders added to library but not visible in Folder view.

« on: August 16, 2022, 08:50:31 AM »

there is an issue with signalling the folders be refreshed in 3.5.8249
This should fix the issue:
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee35_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

Thank you Steven, it now works!

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Questions / Re: New folders added to library but not visible in Folder view.

« on: August 16, 2022, 07:39:19 AM »

Hi, I think I might have the same problem, although not on a NAS. I haven't used MB over the summer, but recently got back and updated it.  I'm far from a superuser, but as I recall, whenever I made changes that should be reflected on the folder system (in the navigator in the left sidebar), nothing happens. In Windows Explorer, all changes are visible but it is as if MB didn't automatically updated the Computer Panel.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: March 07, 2022, 08:07:28 PM »

I'm sorry, my computer says she's tired.
I'm sure other members can provide some suggestions. Else I'll take a look in a few days.

Let her sleep  

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: March 07, 2022, 08:00:23 PM »

Presets are there to make some common operations available, but more importantly, they have the purpose to be an example and can be used as a template (copy them) to create a preset that does specifically what you want.
So you would either need to learn how to create such a preset yourself, or ask others to help you with it.

Absolutely, I'm with you on this. However, if I reformulate my question, how come that some presets (on my setup, only Example: Write result of virtual tag expression defined in <Custom text 1> to <Tag 2>) list all virtual tags in the <tag 1> drop-down, while all others don't? For example, I'm trying to use your recent preset for adding values to tags, but Artist:Performer simply isn't there.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: March 07, 2022, 07:09:21 PM »

'Instruments: Performer' is a virtual tag used by MusicBee for displaying purposes.
If you edit 'Artists: Performer', the results should be reflected in 'Instruments: Performer'.

Ok, so blatantly showing my incompetence here, it seems to me that only some presets can write to e.g. Artist: Performer? Actually, doing a quick test, the only preset I found that could write to the virtual tags was the Example: Write result of virtual tag expression defined in <Custom text 1> to <Tag 2>. In the rest, these are simply not showing up in the dropdown menu. Probably doing something wrong, but what?