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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Playlist Autoremove option.

« on: April 24, 2024, 05:08:28 PM »

Auto-playlists work with rules and conditions.

How would you describe the conditions that you are looking for exactly?
You will need to be precise…

Then perhaps something could be done in combination with the Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools plugin, but right now I don't have good suggestions on how that would work exactly.


edit:
This should probably be moved to 'Questions', it's not really a valid wishlist request. (in my opinion)

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: April 24, 2024, 04:16:58 PM »

this version also freezes:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mrnrs2z632hao13/Tagging+Tools_2024-04-24.zip/file
?

p.s. do you experience freezes if you turn skin coloring off?

yes, and yes

The freeze is for example when starting MusicBee, and it taking up to 10 seconds before the albums in the main panel show up.
With the plugin disabled it's almost instant.
Or, sometimes when opening the preferences panel. That can also take a (short) while.

But by now I am becoming convinced it is because of some flaw in my setup/tweaks/virtual tags/formulas elsewhere.
So unless anyone else reports such freezes, forget about it. I'll need to figure this out myself.


edit
I think I solved it. There were two other locations in MusicBee where in formulas/rules the former custom tag's original tag name was replaced with the generic 'Custom#' name, as a result of me having moved some custom tags around.

Fixed it there too, and things seem to be working fine now. (using 2024-04-24 8.1.8880.30821)

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: April 24, 2024, 03:26:48 PM »

this version is the latest stable if i'm not mistaken:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/dm3rhfze89n3qwi/Additional-Tagging-Tools-Plugin.zip/file

also, you could try this earlier version:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/3g5c8uc8lea8vq8/Additional-Tagging-Tools-Plugin-8.0-2024-01-29.zip/file

another probably stable version:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/h2t08o9562efboi/mb_TagTools_latest.zip/file

Could it be they are all the same?
They all say: 8.0.8794.38420

About the freezes I am experiencing, I see it also happens when using a 2023 version of AT&RT, so it's probably something wrong with my setup.
One thing I noticed is that in some of my virtual tags I hadn't made adjustments for the new amount of 20 custom tags that 3.6 now has.
(I moved some around, and that broke the formulas)

But right now that didn't solve the (brief) freezes, so I'll see what else may be wrong.

Just a thought: could it be that AT&RT has some issue with recognising or using custom tags 17–20?

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: April 24, 2024, 02:08:08 PM »

@boroda

In case you were not aware: the download button on the Add-Ons page leads to a "Something appears to be missing…" page on MediaFire.

And, which download version would you recommend to be the latest, most stable version?
(I've experienced some temporary but frequent MB freezes with some more recent versions)

I checked what is available on your 'Drive', but I am overwhelmed by the amount of downloads and not sure which one to choose.

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Questions / Re: "Band" Tags, Album Artists, and Albums Being Split UP

« on: April 23, 2024, 07:59:27 AM »

Welcome to the forum kawika

'Band' is an ancient description of what all software that I know of call 'album artist' these days.
(for ID3 it would be the tag TPE2)

And that tag is intended for keeping the tracks of an album together.
For band members you could use 'performer' tags, and for 'guest' artists you could use the 'guest artist' tag.

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TheaterMode / Re: using the 'tags="…" attribute for 'Gallery' to improve on artist images results?

« on: April 21, 2024, 03:04:50 PM »

But why are you using Gallery instead "ArtistPicture" ?

Because I like the image rotation that Gallery can do.
And I looked at the Artist Pictures TM that is included with MusicBee, and that one also uses 'Gallery' for its artist pictures.

Here's what I still don't understand:
 
In Mayibongwes fantastic Theater Modes topic, it reads:

    type="Gallery"  tags="landscape,blue,animals" means that
    MusicBee will retrieve web images where any of the tags match

That suggests that you can enter any keyword that you like.

But you are naming only:

    artist
    albumArtist
    composer
    genre
    mood
    occasion

as valid options.

But those are tags, right? And not keywords?

So is what's in the aforementioned topic incorrect, and can you only use one of the six tags that you mention?
And there is no way to tweak or refine the searches by using keywords or additional search terms?

edit:
And for my understanding:
Am I correct to think that <element type="Gallery" uses Bing to find images, and that <element type="ArtistPicture" searches some specific websites that are dedicated to artist photos and/or fan-art?
(if so, can you say which one(s)?)

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TheaterMode / Re: using the 'tags="...' attribute for 'Gallery' to improve oartist images results?

« on: April 21, 2024, 10:38:00 AM »

artist
albumArtist
composer
genre
mood
occasion

I don't understand, wouldn't something like this make more sense?:
tags="artist,band,group,singer"
It is not restricted to only these 6 existing tags, is it?
 
Or what might even work better, can it make use of a custom tag?
So e.g. for the band 'Soup', you would have some 'artist refine' tag populated with 'band', and for 'Seal' 'singer'?

Or if you would have two bands with the same name, but one is from the USA and the other from Australia, have those countries in this 'artist refine' tag. (eg: band, australia)

or even more...

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TheaterMode / using the 'tags="…" attribute for 'Gallery' to improve on artist images results?

« on: April 21, 2024, 08:36:36 AM »

When using the 'Gallery' element, the retrieved images of artists are usually correct,  but also often very wrong.

I noticed there is the option to add a tags="..."attribute to the gallery element.
I'm going to experiment a bit with that to see if I can improve on getting the appropriate artist images retrieved, but I was wondering if other users already have some tags= conditions that work well, that they could share?

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TheaterMode / Re: Opened autohide panel does not cover everything that is beneath it?

« on: April 21, 2024, 06:58:27 AM »

Some requests:

1.
When a panel/block is opened covering an existing text field, the underlying text will remain visible and will interfere with what is in the covering panel.
I can't think of a good reason for that behaviour, so the request is to hide text fields when covered by non-transparent blocks or images.
See here for an example and a brief discussion/confirmation of the matter.


2.
When having different sizes for 'loved' and 'rating', they become misaligned:



I can think of a couple of ways this may be solved:

- Allow 'Rating' to have an yAnchor, so something like this would work:

Code

<element name="#Loved" type="Field" id="RatingLove"
 xAnchor="Panel.10" x="0" width="140"
 yAnchor="Panel.10" y="0"
 visible="MusicBeeSetting"
 fg="50,50,50" fg2="180,180,180" size="10" rightMargin="16" >
    <child id="Rating"
     fg="180,180,180" fg2="50,50,50" size="14"
     yAnchor="#Loved.Top" y="-2"
     visible="MusicBeeSetting">
    </child>
</element>

- Allow for having completely separate entries for 'loved' and 'rating'
   If I am not mistaken, at the moment 'love' and 'rating' are Siamese twins that will only function properly when using the <child> function.

- Have 'love' and 'rating' automagically align vertically whatever the sizes of each.


3.
For lyrics there is the option: 'autoOpen'
My request is to have 'autoOpen' being a generic function, so that it can be used for any field.
(i.e. when the referenced tag is empty, do not show the field/panel)



And finally, bumping some older issues/requests to keep things together:

4.
making Instruments: Performers available as a list

5.
toggle status not being refreshed

6.
independent autohide panels
 

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Questions / Re: Display more digits of track number

« on: April 21, 2024, 06:37:30 AM »

is it possible to set how many digits of the track number are displayed in artwork mode? any tracks with 4 digits get cut off and its very ugly

Welcome to the forum rust.
No, that is not possible.

But it looks like that when you set a smaller font size for that panel, 4-digit track numbers will get displayed in full.

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TheaterMode / Re: Opened autohide panel does not cover everything that is beneath it?

« on: April 21, 2024, 06:31:22 AM »

Did you have something like this? It won't always open with block1 though. If you exit the theater mode on block2, then that's where it'll open to.

Thanks. Yes that was one of the things that I have tried. But as you say, that does not make block 1 the default one that is always opened when the TM starts.

I'm going to post a request for solving the issue by having text that is underneath a newly opened panel to be invisible and not 'shine through'.

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Questions / Re: advanced search & replace for lyrics how?

« on: April 20, 2024, 10:59:23 AM »

We are now talking about two different plugins.

Lyrics Reloaded
Which is the plugin that retrieves the lyrics, and of which the developer already stated he will see if he can solve this 'LiveGet' issue.

Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools
Which is the plugin that I think you are using, trying to change the lyrics that are already in your files.
For that, do this:

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Tips and Tricks / Re: How to retrieve good quality genre tags using Picard

« on: April 20, 2024, 09:29:51 AM »

updated

The script now replaces spaces in genre names with non-breaking spaces so that they don't get split up to a new line.

(e.g. for Cool jazz, Avant-garde metal, etc.)

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TheaterMode / Re: Opened autohide panel does not cover everything that is beneath it?

« on: April 20, 2024, 07:05:20 AM »

I'd came across exactly this hiccup :- when I was designing the Motion Pictures TM.

Can you think of a good reason why underlying text still shows when a (non-transparent) block (or image) is opened above it?
I can't, so I may post a request to have that changed.
 

I'm not on my pc right now, but another thing you can try is to make the lyrics in block1 autoOpen.

Thanks, but
1. That doesn't make a difference
2. In the actual TM I am creating, it is for a custom tag panel, not for lyrics.
    I used lyrics in the example TM so that it would work for everyone trying this.

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TheaterMode / Re: the (new) custom tags 17-20 are not recognised by TM

« on: April 20, 2024, 06:47:13 AM »

are you getting the .dll from https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee36_Patched.zip

Yep.
Trying it again, and I now get the new version.
I don't know why it didn't work yesterday. I e.g. made sure to clear the browser cache before opening that page, every time.

The new version now works indeed for Custom17-20. Thanks.