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Questions / Re: m3u association with windows store version of musicbee
« on: August 27, 2019, 04:44:15 AM »
Is there any particular reason you're using the Store version? You won't have the issue you referenced if you use the Portable or Installer versions.

Also note that the Store version lags way behind as far as updates go, which is another reason to use either of the two versions I mentioned. Just be sure that if using the Portable version place it in something like C:\MusicBee and not in any of the Windows system directories.

New computer, new installation. I previously used the installer, but I saw the new store option with automatic updates so I opted to give it a shot.  It's not a deal-breaker by any means, but Windows allows other programs such as Media Player Classic-HC to associate with m3u files, so I just wanted to alert the developers here to a (minor) shortfall.

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Questions / m3u association with windows store version of musicbee
« on: August 27, 2019, 02:40:01 AM »
m3u playlist files aren't associated to musicbee if you opted for the windows store installation. There's no easy and straightforward way to make this happen as the MB installation is behind Program Files\WindowsApps folder. Even an administrator account requires special read access which isn't insurmountable but seems unnecessary to utilize such a common music file type through MB. Further, best practices requires that you reverse all the special read access you've granted yourself to make m3u files default to MB once the job is done. This is for security reasons.

Future updates to musicbee should account for the m3u file type.

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Questions / Re: "The" sorting works quixotically
« on: October 11, 2015, 07:37:23 PM »
1) There are ways to work around this with a virtual tag, but making your tags consistent is probably the better solution.

2) The album column is working okay for me.  Can you post screenshots of your "Ignore words" box and the column browser?


Thanks for the quick reply. This reply field / forum doesn't have image posting options, so I'm sending you a link to an imgur album. Hopefully, it works. I'm also including examples of this behavior extending to "A". Look for "The Foo Fighters" and "A Hawk and a Hacksaw" in the artist column, as well.

https://imgur.com/a/mhXco

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Questions / "The" sorting works quixotically
« on: October 11, 2015, 05:49:59 PM »
Apologies. I feel someone must have asked this question before but it's fairly difficult to search for relevant posts as "The" is an ignored term in the search field. I also tried to search for only "ignore sort" but the results were all over the place.

I've included "The" as an ignored term in preferences -> Tags (2). However, the sorting isn't "The" agnostic.

1 - In the "Artist" column on my top left, "The" doesn't affect sort order but it does create a discrete entry relative to the same name without "The". Example: "Foo Fighters" and "The Foo Fighters" are two different entries with "The Fool Fighters" below "Foo Fighters" arranged alphabetically 0-Z. Of course, I probably need to rename one of the field to the proper entry, but my preference here would be that the entries with and without "The" are collated together.

2 - The "Album" column on my top right is more straightforward. It simple ignores that I placed "The" as an ignored term. All albums entries starting with "The" are alphabetically grouped together in the T section.

I would appreciate any help in correcting this behavior. Thank you

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I just started using musicbee after finally giving up on winamp ever being supported again or not coming back as spyware-riddled crap. Have to say, Steven, you've built an amazing music player. I do, however, have a few requests (if there are current solutions and I'm ignorant of them, I apologize) regarding future builds to bring them aesthetically on par with the best of old winamp.

The top columns for Artist / Album / x user choice should be resizeable. Currently, it seems that they're fixed in size. Two columns each take half of total available width, three columns take 1/3 of total available width and so on. My personal preference is two resizeable columns for Artist and Album with discrete "sub-columns" for each. Where we currently only have "Show Count" for total track numbers, I would like to see both a "total tracks" and "albums per artist" as sub-columns in the Artist main column. Ex: U2 = ARTIST  5 = ALBUMS 50 = TRACKS. In the main Albums column, I would like to see "Album", "total tracks", "year" for album year, and "Album Length" as sub-columns. Ideally, all of the sub-columns would be sortable. Again, this is to mimic what I saw as the best in old Winamp.

Regarding the Now Playing panel on the right (rather than the Now Playing tab), I would like to see a non-column option. I realize the column fields allow users to re-sort a playlist and some users might be keen to keep that. If there's a way to give users the option of a sub-column divided Now Playing panel and a non-divided panel, please adopt it. Personally, I would love to see musicbee take winamp's approach to this. I would like to see an automatically flexible space (per track) on the extreme right of the Now Playing panel dedicated to track length. You should disallow flexing the interior width of the Now Playing column beyond the actual screen width for this non-subcolumn look. The other part of each playlist item's entry should read "(Playlist Number). (Artist) - (Track Title)" Ex: 1. U2 - With or Without You  5:00. Artists and titles whose combined widths exceed the available width of the Now Playing panel should scroll the (artist) - (title) information left to right to left and so on when the track is currently being played (or, perhaps, always) rather than terminating in ellipses...

Thanks for taking these considerations to mind. If current solutions already exist, please point me to them.

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