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Tips and Tricks / Re: [GUIDE] How to use Musicbee on Linux (Archlinux/Debian based distro)

« on: October 25, 2024, 01:38:50 PM »

I also thought I'd chime in. I am new to Linux, and had problems with not being able to login to Last.Fm and scrobble my tracks / synchronise playcounts.

What fixed the problem for me was installing gnutls, to allow for https connections. I am not sure why some musicbee features work (like fetching artist pictures) while others don't.

I am running an arch setup, installed via EndeavourOS.

Steps:

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sudo pacman -S gnutls

Alternatively, if you are using a 32-bit wine prefix:

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sudo pacman -S lib32-gnutls

Add it to your relevant winetricks:

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WINEPREFIX=path/to/whereYouWantYourWineprefix/ winetricks lib32-gnutls

Restart your system! I had to restart before it worked.

Now start up MusicBee with the wine prefix:

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WINEPREFIX=path/to/whereYouWantYourWineprefix/ wine musicbee

After doing this once it all worked, maybe the last step is redundant, I am not sure.
This should make it possible for MusicBee to establish https connections.

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Questions / Re: "Unable to connect to Last.fm", no firewall

« on: October 25, 2024, 12:25:48 PM »

I have same error("Unable to connect Last.fm - if you have a firewall the proxy settings need to be configured in Preferences/ Internet") and error log doesn't have much info

I'm running this on wine-staging 8.8
Host OS is Endeavour(Arch)
Tried to setup multiple prefixes in 32 and 64 bit, also tried the TLS 1.3 enabling steps but it didn't work either. I also tried previous release and overwriting v3.5 release with the patch you provided above.
And I do not see this error : "Last.fm login error: The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel."  which sacrebisous got.
MusicBee itself works great, only lastfm logging isn't working. If there's any other way to enable that like using 3rd party tool/cli script I'm fine with that too.

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20/5/2023 3:35:58 pm - Last.fm login error: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
20/5/2023 3:52:19 pm - Last.fm login error: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
20/5/2023 3:56:30 pm - Last.fm login error: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.

I have the exact same problem, having recently switched over to Linux and using Endeavour, and running MusicBee in Wine. Did you ever fix your problem? I'd love to know

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Skins / Re: Rosepine Skin

« on: September 15, 2024, 09:20:28 AM »

Thanks for creating and sharing carcassonne!

It's probably me, but when I go to your github page, I see a couple of helpful links, but not download links for the skins themselves?

edit:
Ah, fuggetaboutit, I was put off by a link that I saw saying 'fix sidebar player', but it is the actual download link to the skin file.

edit2:
And where it says: Rosephine 'Add light theme', it is the link to the dark version.
(Rosephine Dusk?)

Sorry, me being not that familiar with GitHub

I might have taken it for granted that people don't know about git/github, sorry! It was also confusing for me once.
Basically, to get to the dawn skin you press the "dawn" folder. In there you can find the "Rosepine Dawn.xml" file. It is the same for the normal (dark) skin: You press the "default" folder, and in there you can find "Rosepine.xml". You have to press the folder name itself, what you were pressing before were the 'commits'. These are the changes introduced since the last version for a group of files.

Here are direct links to the files:
Dark: https://github.com/carcasonne/MusicBee-Rosepine/blob/main/default/Rosepine.xml
Light: https://github.com/carcasonne/MusicBee-Rosepine/blob/main/dawn/Rosepine%20Dawn.xml

There is a small icon in the top which says "Download raw file" for each file

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Skins / Re: Rosepine Skin

« on: September 14, 2024, 06:58:54 PM »

Fantastic skin, great color scheme! The one tweak I made for my own use was to remove the alternating text color in track details. I use font highlighting rules to identify certain things, so that throws me off. Since it's an XML, that was an easy fix (aside from remembering which element it was, lol).

[Update] Well, since I use the sidebar player instead of the main player I realized it's missing some of those elements. But again, it's XML, I can resolve that myself.  I might fiddle with some of the other colors as a matter of personal preference, but this may replace Sting as my main skin for a while. (Can't give up Sting, I'll just move it to my other installation.)

Thank you for the feedback. I have made the alternating tracks background + text color less contrasting with the normal background, it was a bit too much. And also added some colors to the sidebar player. And yeah, I prefer xml over the compiled version for this reason too

Also: I have now added a light theme version of this skin

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Skins / Rosepine Skin

« on: September 07, 2024, 04:24:08 PM »

This is a skin based on the Rosepine color palette: https://rosepinetheme.com/palette/ingredients/
I started out by modying Fluke's Kandinsky Dark skin, while it is modified a lot, it was a great starting point: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20695.0
Also thanks to Hiccup's sample skin!

I am also planning on making a light version in the future.

Dark Version:







Light Version:






Download link:

Download link: https://github.com/carcasonne/MusicBee-Rosepine/tree/main

This is my first skin, so if you spot any error please let me know!

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Screenshots / Re: Config/theme show off thread.

« on: August 25, 2024, 06:16:17 PM »

Hello,
Here is my configuration for several years. No extra tabs, everything is on this page. But I may have to add an Artist tab as I'm starting to have too many albums.

How do you make those 'This Is' playlists? Do you have a script which generates them based on popularity, genre, rating, etc.? Or is it just manual?
Wondering because it could be a cool algorithm you might have cooked up.

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Skins / Re: Aura Skin and my Layout

« on: October 12, 2023, 11:30:54 PM »

I opened the left sidebar further. I left the same amount of information and didn't use Fit to panel, I used 90px.
*So, you can wide open the sidebar further
* and where there are playing tracks, you can place the mouse cursor over this title and drag it closer to the track information.

I'm new to MusicBee and think your layout looks super nice. I understand you haven't released the theme file, but I am having trouble replicating your layout.

My main issue is the 'track information', top of the left sidebar takes so much space for some reason? I can't get it to just use the space it needs.



Track information:


I know this is a more general issue than to do with your skin, but i hope you can help 

Ahh okay. Thanks, I didn't realize I had to drag the windows myself..

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Skins / Re: Aura Skin and my Layout

« on: October 12, 2023, 10:48:11 AM »

I'm new to MusicBee and think your layout looks super nice. I understand you haven't released the theme file, but I am having trouble replicating your layout.

My main issue is the 'track information', top of the left sidebar takes so much space for some reason? I can't get it to just use the space it needs.



Track information:


I know this is a more general issue than to do with your skin, but i hope you can help