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Questions / Re: Can I hide track artists in iTunes compilations?

« on: September 03, 2020, 07:08:48 PM »

Hey, sorry for bumping this topic after so many months, but I accidentily found the easiest way to accomplish my request.

In the cover view configuration, you just need to set a virtual tag for the first field:

My VirtualTag32 only consits of the title tag.

"Titelinfo" is my custom tag that contains the romanized titles of foreign languages:

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Questions / Re: Can I hide track artists in iTunes compilations?

« on: April 28, 2020, 07:11:15 PM »

I don't think it matters if it's an iTunes compilation, that's something MusicBee does in cases where Artist doesn't match Album Artist. I don't think there's a workaround, but I'm not super familiar with that view so someone else might know better.

Perhaps incorporating something like this in the virtual tag will solve things for you? :

$If(<Artist>=<Album Artist>,,<Artist>)

I don't think this would work. In case the album artist is matching (=usual albums by one artist) there's no artist to be seen, and otherwise (on compilations) it will be printed. The opposite could work if you check for "iTunes compilation = yes", though. But the cover view always shows "artist; virtualtag" which would still have an ugly semicolon in there instead of a dash. This is more of an eye candy problem, though. Thank you for the idea.

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Questions / Can I hide track artists in iTunes compilations?

« on: April 28, 2020, 03:16:25 PM »

Hello,

I played a bit with virtual tags to primarily transcribe song titles with foreign writing systems. It also shows the play count and always the latin-written artist. This virtual tag is shown beneath each title in cover view.
However, albums that are marked as iTunes compilations always show "artist; virtualtag" beneath the songs. I haven't found a way to get rid of that yet and I don't want to re-tag all compilations to "Various Artists" as album artist.

Have an example:
Correctly transcribed artist/title with playcount on a standard album:


Compilation with "artist;<virtual tag>":

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee 3 with Wine and dual boot

« on: November 06, 2019, 11:18:58 PM »

You really don't want to use virtual machines for that. It's a pain in the ass no matter how much you automate or even if you use the best stacks like KVM. Big waste of resources too since there's no such thing as a lightweight windows vm, not even the images MS created just for that.

Yes, it was an overkill solution, but by far the easiest one. I have an i7 and 16 GB of RAM, so resources never were a problem for my VM.

However, I tried to run MusicBee through WINE (Stable 4.0) now and it kind of works. I had to install .NET 4.8 manually for the MB environment and simply copied my Windows VM Library and AppData folder to the installation folder.

- The missing covers were no issue, but MusicBee can't play AAC files bought from iTunes. FLAC and MP3 seem to work fine. I had to manually add the "Bass AAC Encoder" to my application directory. This is described in the FAQ.
- Non-Latin characters are squares, but I guess I need to install a font for this. Installing "cjkfonts" through winetricks did the trick.
- In Grid View, album covers are not displayed as a blurry background, they're just an pixelated upscale. Here I had to install gdiplus through winetricks.
- Crossfade doesn't work either. It works now but I can't say why. Maybe one of the above added libraries did something here. Gapless playback works well too.
- Music sometimes stop for a fraction of a second, happened to me twice while playing four songs. This seemed like a temporary problem since it didn't happen again one day after.
- MusicBee is crashing when I select "File Converter" in Options dialog.
- Drag & Drop inside MusicBee is not working, it's a pain to edit playlists. According to the console, this interface is missing. SOmeone on the web fixed it by installing gdiplus_winxp but this breaks MusicBee completely, since it removes the new gdiplus.dll.

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Tips and Tricks / Re: MusicBee 3 with Wine and dual boot

« on: November 02, 2019, 11:30:57 PM »

I've got a workaround for using MusicBee on Linux, but you'll need to install a virtual machine with a Windows system. With a few tweaks (on Mint Cinnamon, but probably works on other distros too) you can make the VM look like a standard application. I even got WiFi sync working. However, there are downsides like no global hotkeys from outside.
A recent update made MusicBee way smoother, so there's little to no difference in using it through the VM.



Yeah, this is no solution for the given problem. But as long as WINE won't run MusicBee well, I can live with that. If you want, I can write a guide.

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Plugins / Re: MusicBeeFly - a remote control plugin/App for iOS and Android

« on: October 17, 2019, 09:40:13 PM »

Although the web interface is working, I can't log into it. The interface is available at 192.168...:9999 but it gets stuck at logging in.
I tried Firefox and Chromium but neither one did work. There were also no POST requests fired against the plugin's server.

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Questions / Re: Help for creating an Auto Playlist which depends on History

« on: January 17, 2018, 06:55:54 PM »

MusicBee stores each single play, even of songs I onl played once or twice. I still have some records of late 2016 when I began using MB.

Own SQL would be cool but I could imagine there's a chance to put in malicous code with SQL injections. I don't think it would be that tragical because the DB doesn't hold any personal data, though.

Thank you anyway!

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Questions / Re: Help for creating an Auto Playlist which depends on History

« on: January 16, 2018, 09:22:51 PM »

That's not exactly what I want. That would count all playings, no matter when I listened to the song.

I only want the play count of the last X days. If I play a song five times in a month, but only three times of that in the last ten days, I only want to list these three playings. I hope I made it clearer now.

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Questions / Help for creating an Auto Playlist which depends on History

« on: January 16, 2018, 05:43:55 PM »

Hello,

I'd like to create an auto playlist which lists my most-listened songs of recent X days - like chart list.
The good thing with MusicBee is that it already tracks each play with a timestamp and not just the the last listened time. Can I somehow create such a playlist? Maybe with a custom-defined variable?

Thank you!

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Bug Reports / Re: After relocating library: Ratings vanished and playlist folder not deletable

« on: January 07, 2017, 10:53:26 PM »

Okay, I'll probably have no other choice then.

However, a bigger problem for me are the two playlist folders which can't get deleted.

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Bug Reports / Re: After relocating library: Ratings vanished and playlist folder not deletable

« on: January 02, 2017, 05:00:39 PM »

The ratings were stored in the library only.

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Bug Reports / After relocating library: Ratings vanished and playlist folder not deletable

« on: December 24, 2016, 10:08:49 AM »

Hello!

Well, I've got a problem (duh).
I recently moved my data drive letter from E:\ to D:\. I relocated the library in MusicBee, everything gets found, no problem so far.
As you read in the headline, however, I run into two problems:
All song ratings are vanished. This is pretty bad for me because I have auto playlists which need the info and I have to re-rate each single song (currently above 4,232 songs) again.

My next problem: I divide my music in "Purchased" and "Free" (such as free downloads from Soundcloud). The "Purchased" playlist is a playlist folder which contains several playlists which are divided in CDs, digital downloads, Bandcamp, iTunes, albums, singles and so on.
The playlist folder usually shows a merged list of all playlists it contains. After relocating the playlists still exist but the playlist folder is empty.
I just created a new folder and moved my playlists there. But I can't delete the old playlist folder. A message apperas which tells me the select folder doesn't contain files and can't be removed. The folder looks empty and doesn't contain any playlists anymore.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Tag editor

« on: November 07, 2016, 09:44:19 PM »

+1