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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Album Rating

« on: April 21, 2024, 11:22:53 AM »

My suggestion is:
When you rate an album via single tracks' tag editor, we got the album rate only for that particular track.
It would make more sense (if possible) that rating an album via one track would change the rate of all tracks of an album.

Why would you want to have a different album rating on different tracks of the same album ?
I'm actually looking for a way to automatically ensure each album has a single album rating across tracks.

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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver Plugin 2.0

« on: April 21, 2024, 11:04:49 AM »

Here is to hoping for your getting bored  

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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver Plugin 2.0

« on: March 29, 2024, 11:05:37 PM »

The next time you need a new phone, consider that syncing an Android device to Musicbee can be done over wifi through an app. It's basically just a click and it's done. Works fast too.

Well, I wouldn't phrase it so optimistically considering this thread
But it looks definitely easier than for the iPhone

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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver Plugin 2.0

« on: March 18, 2024, 10:04:35 PM »

Thanks for the feedback, it works.

In case someone else is also trying to sync his iphone with MusicBee (which does require the latest iTunes version), here is the workflow that works for me :
- sync your iphone with iTunes
- unplug your iPhone
- delete all your playlists from iTunes library
- close and reopen iTunes and MusicBee
- launch the plugin
- sync MusicBee to iTunes via the plugin
- If you have automatic playlists that needs updating with synced tags :
    - close and reopen iTunes and MusicBee
    - launch the plugin
    - sync MusicBee to iTunes, you can tick "synchronise playlist" only and select the playlist that need updating
- sync your iphone with iTunes

Victory

iTunes version : 12.13.1.3 (latest version as of today)
MusicBee version : 3.5.8698 (same)

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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver Plugin 2.0

« on: March 15, 2024, 12:06:45 PM »

First off, many thanks to boroda and BoringName for this plugin.
The impossibility of cleanly transfering my Mac Music App library to my new Linux / Windows computer and iTunes has pushed me into the arms of MusicBee, which has very nice features. Some I knew I missed, a lot I didn't think of, but are very nice.

Unfortunately, I still have an iPhone and I would like to make it last a bit longer before switching to something like a fairphone or anything more compatible with MusicBee.
In the meantime, if have been fidling with your plugin for a few weeks (on and off), trying to get my MusicBee and its playlist on my iPhone and I've finaly managed to get it all synced, and getting back ratings, play counts, last played date back into MusicBee.

I haven't worked out all the kinks from my process : currently I need to manually remove all playlist from iTunes for the playlist update to work (and even then it's a bit of a dice roll) => does anyone have the same issue ?

Also, one improvement to the plugin that seems easy to implement is the sync order between tracks, playlists and tags.
Currently, I believe it is tracks, then playlists, then tags. This means any automatic playlist that relies on tags needs 2 synchronisations to get updated on the iPhone : the first one to get the latest tags from iTunes, the second to put the updated playlists back in iTunes.

Could we switch the sync order to :  tracks, then tags, then playlists ? And would it work, meaning would MusicBee be able to update the playlists between the tags sync and the playlist sync ?

Alternatively, could we get an option to only update the playlists (without going through the full library update) ?

iTunes version : Version 12.13.1.3 (latest version as of today)
MusicBee : Version 3.5.8698 (same)

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Questions / Re: How to preserve ratings when locating files

« on: February 10, 2024, 01:10:44 PM »

Same problem.
We need a setting to locate file without rescanning the id3 tags.

I actually don't understand why the default behaviour is updating the tags from the file, since your are trying to restore the link between the tags you have in your MusicBee DB to a file. If you don't care about the tags in your MusicBee DB, you could just import the file.