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Questions / Re: Import ratings and show ratings in music tab

« on: April 18, 2025, 04:47:00 AM »

I don't understand what you mean by the store version. I'm using the version I downloaded from this site (version 3.6.9202).

What you have is the "Installed" version, since your version number doesn't end with a letter.
A "Portable" version number ends with a "P".
A "Store" version number ends with an "S".
Patches can be applied to an Installed or a Portable version.

MB can be installed through Microsoft Store: that is the "Store" version.
Its (only) advantage is that you don't have to care about upgrades: they are performed automatically.
But on the other hand there are disadvantages:
- the Store version is updated less often
- you can not apply patches to it, so you have to wait for an official release
- its subfolders and setting files are hidden to the user

I see, that's good information to have. I'm still not clear on what this patched version will do to help with my problem. Does it change the way MusicBee reads metadata?

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Questions / Re: Import ratings and show ratings in music tab

« on: April 17, 2025, 08:44:21 AM »

if you are not using the store version of mb, you can apply this patch
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee36_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

I don't understand what you mean by the store version. I'm using the version I downloaded from this site (version 3.6.9202).

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Questions / Re: Import ratings and show ratings in music tab

« on: April 16, 2025, 05:26:53 AM »

For your second question:

When using 'Compact Grid' option, click on panel header (Album and Tracks) > Set Displayed Fields (and select 'Rating').

Thank you very much, that gave me the exact results I wanted. I greatly appreciate the information.

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Questions / Re: Import ratings and show ratings in music tab

« on: April 16, 2025, 05:25:40 AM »

Mediafire is free and easy to use without the need to register.

Cool! I uploaded a couple songs, hopefully that will help make it more clear. Thank you in advance for your help.

Song 1
Song 2
Song 3

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Questions / Re: Import ratings and show ratings in music tab

« on: April 15, 2025, 09:17:03 AM »

can you send me a link to a couple of files and let me know what the rating is

Where should I upload the files to sen them to you? If it helps, I'm viewing the metadata through mp3tag. Depending on if MusicBee saves rating as metadata to the file, I can probably edit it en masse that way if need be.

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Questions / Re: Exclude format from being added to library

« on: April 15, 2025, 08:01:43 AM »

2. File > Library > Manage Filters

Create a filter that uses the Kind or .Ext fields to hide the m4a files from your Library view.

This worked very well, thank you friend, you are a true scholar.

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Questions / Exclude format from being added to library

« on: April 15, 2025, 02:36:11 AM »

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to prevent certain files from being uploaded to my library. My collection is almost exclusively in FLAC, but I have duplicates of some files in M4A format because my audio player is an iPod classic and they don't support FLAC. I'm trying to find an option to prevent MusicBee from adding those M4A since I don't have a need for two copies to show up in my library. I tried using Preferences -> General -> File Types and disabling every file type except FLAC, but when I restart the program, it still automatically adds the M4A files (and automatic monitoring of my library is an important feature for me). I'm assuming there's a setting that I haven't found, I'm just unsure where else to look.

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Questions / Import ratings and show ratings in music tab

« on: April 15, 2025, 12:31:01 AM »

Hello, I recently downloaded MusciBee and I'm trying to figure out two problems. The first one is how to import the ratings in my metadata into musicbee. I have been using WinAmp for years and my ratings are saved in the metadata as "rating WMP." MusicBee didn't read any of that metadata, and I'd really prefer to not re-rate 20,000 songs manually.

My second question is, how do I get those ratings to appear in the music tab next to the title of the song? NOT while the track is playing, in the library next to the title of the song, where the circle is in the image. I have read about a dozen answers here and none of them have been even remotely helpful. Most of them say that I should right click and go to customize panel, then enable "show track ratings" but that isn't any option anywhere I can see. Edit: I found the "compact grid" and "detailed list" options, so while I'm not as fond of the layout there, it's serviceable and shows the information I need.