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Beyond MusicBee / Re: How to organize songs by Tempo/Beat/Rhythm?

« on: April 08, 2024, 10:34:54 PM »

I know the replies in this forum post are quite old, but the topic is still very relevant.
Starting long ago with Winamp I am now very happy with MusicBee and MP3tag.
But when going to DJing with Rekordbox, VirtualDJ, Mixxx and other tools like Mixo and Mixed-In-Key the situation is really complex.
This because all this expensive (often subscription based) DJ tools do not import and export all metadata completely and without errors and risk.
It seems that MP3tag is the only tool to manage this well between MusicBee and DJ tools.

I checked already the various tag capabilities of above DJ tools and apparently the only reliable
and flexible interface/converter between these tools and MusicBee can bei MP3tag.
The Rekordbox XML export file is quite complete and can be used for transfer to and from Rekordbox.
Most challenging is the transfer of special tags like colors and ratings between Musicbee and MP3tag and DJtools.

Tools like Mixo, Rekordcloud (now Lexicon) or DJCU from ATGR can do this too, but are partly expensive and still unreliable.
Any update of DJ controller software does also require careful check and mostly also updates of these tools.
The key question is, if you want to spend regular money and risk with these tools or spend regular your own time and risk for the data transfer.

My conclusion is to stay with MusicBee as my main library and export/import.
I will only use a selected music portfolio to be imported (in my case) through rekordbox XML file.
One special tag in MusicBee will show me, which files have been already imported/exported (or modified).

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Plugins / Re: BeeDownloader: download audio tracks of youtube videos into your inbox

« on: September 04, 2016, 11:30:47 AM »

I can not really imagine how this could work in the best way. Youtube does offer quite often various video resolutions and quite different coding quality of music is embedded in these video formats. Normaly the best video quality does contain also the best audio quality (bitrate). Only with special tools I can extract the original audio stream lossless in the original codec format. That is very often the aac-format. Any recoding to mp3 is for me a NoGo, because it is not lossless and would result in compression degradation. How please is BeeDownloader able to manage this quite complex topic of lossless audio extraction?

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Portable Devices / Re: Device name blank

« on: September 04, 2016, 10:52:50 AM »

The topic is old, but not the issue.
Just my hint after solution on my device "LG Nexus 4":

The device was named "Nexus 4" in windows file manger, but detected as "Portable Device" in MusicBee.
The sync path in MusicBee is "Portable Device\Internal storage\" and it seems that the device name and the path cannot be changed.
So I had to rename the device in windows file manager to "Portable Device". And I had to create in its existing subdirectory \Internal storage\ the missing folder \Music\.

Kind Regards from Rudy