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Questions / Error locating audio files in playlists when the files are in a subfolder

« on: August 19, 2023, 06:11:55 PM »

My playlists list audio files located in subfolders. For example (below), the song [Ace Cannon] Behind Closed Doors.mp3 in the M3U playlist is in a folder named A. MusicBee imports the playlist but cannot find the file unless I link it manually, which could take several hours for the many thousands of files are in my playlists. There are numerous subfolders in my music collection. Is there a way to force MusicBee to look into the subfolders?

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A\[Ace Cannon] Behind Closed Doors.mp3

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Plugins / Re: UPnP/ DLNA device support

« on: May 30, 2020, 11:43:56 PM »

I’ve been trying to play my music collection through Sonos and so far I’m only able to play one song, then nothing plays. I’m assuming the problem lies in the UPNP plugin. I’m a software developer. I was thinking of continuing the development of the plugin to make it work with Sonos. I urge anyone with insight into UPNP and that plugin to reply. Any help would be appreciated.

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Questions / Re: Custom tags not showing any text

« on: May 05, 2020, 08:10:35 PM »

I fixed it by renaming the custom tag 'Language' to 'MainLanguage'. Thanks for your help.

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Questions / Re: Custom tags not showing any text

« on: May 05, 2020, 03:23:21 PM »

That mapping is the step I was missing. It now works but there's one more issue.

The API I'm using for tagging files doesn't have a Language property so I'm forced to use a custom tag for that. In Preferences, If I try to add a custom tag for Language MusicBee tells me it that it can't be added because a Language tag already exists. When I added the Language field as a displayed field on the song list header, Language was available so I picked it. But in the song list, MusicBee is only showing the text for the Language tag randomly. It's showing for some songs but not for others.

When I select a song and click Edit, I don't see any text under 'language' but the Tag Inspector shows me the proper string and that the field Language is mapped to TXXX/Language.

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Questions / Re: Custom tags not showing any text

« on: May 04, 2020, 05:51:50 PM »

You are correct. It indicates 'Save to MusicBee database only' because the list doesn't show the Speed tag.

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Questions / Re: Custom tags not showing any text

« on: May 04, 2020, 04:57:55 PM »

Let's start over. I don't use MusicBee to tag my files. I have a huge collection of audio files that are already tagged. Custom tags are currently in the Comment section and formatted to make them easy to extract programmatically. I have written a small application that reads the Comment tag and separates it into individual custom tags and adds those tags back to the files. The Location tag is a custom tag in my files because the application I have written doesn't have access to the actual Location tag (it's a long story).

The Tag Inspector show me that my Location tag was correctly mapped to the Location tag in MusicBee and that the Speed tag is showing the proper text. But when I look at the list of songs in MusicBee, it doesn't show any text for Speed as you can see on the screenshot.

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Questions / Re: Custom tags not showing any text

« on: May 03, 2020, 03:25:57 PM »

Yes, scanned and scanned again but the text still doesn't show.

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Questions / Custom tags not showing any text

« on: May 03, 2020, 03:05:19 AM »

I added additional tags through an external application. When I look at the songs through Tag Inspector, I see the custom tags, for example Speed as the name and TXXX/Speed as the Tag Code and 'Fast' as the value, but when I add the tag to the displayed fields in the main title list, the column shows blanks instead of the actual text. Is that a bug or am I missing something?