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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 19, 2019, 01:26:37 AM »

the app just crashes. I continually get this error:

MusicBee v3.3.7261.33657D  (Win10.0), 18 Dec 2019 17:25:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at MusicBeePlugin.AdvancedSearchAndReplaceCommand.InitializeComponent()
   at MusicBeePlugin.AdvancedSearchAndReplaceCommand..ctor(Plugin tagToolsPluginParam)
   at MusicBeePlugin.Plugin.asrEventHandler(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at #=zUvgbLIsM5RlUtBS5uFvcgMr53IcC.#=z39UB1WA=(Object #=zRDI$Mj4=, EventArgs #=zRiDv2sk=)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Object key, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventInteractive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mea)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 18, 2019, 04:05:24 PM »

right on. that works. I just made it to work. I'll be home in 9 hours and I can test it against my use case and see what happens. Thanks again.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 18, 2019, 03:32:46 PM »

the download link is broken. Can you please update? Thanks for turning that around so fast 

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Portable Devices / Re: The same Musicbee on Android Devices !

« on: December 18, 2019, 01:17:48 AM »

GoneMad Music Player is far and away the most customizable android music player and the one that seems to have the most amount of features that approach the power-user approach that Musicbee has. It's definitely the only real option on android imo if you want to tinker and make smart playlists and soforth.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 17, 2019, 11:42:45 PM »

that's great to hear! looking forward to testing it out once you finish the patch. Thank you so much. 

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 17, 2019, 07:07:29 PM »

but how do you love track outside mb? 'love' is mb database tag, you can't update it outside mb.

"Love" is a last.fm rating method. You can love tracks on last.fm by going to the site and clicking the heart icon there provided you're logged into your account. I usually do it with the scrobbling app on my phone. This updates the love status in my account. Then when you open musicbee the last.fm playcount, love status and last played date are synced with the musicbee database if you have it set up to do this (which I do, I'm very invested in last.fm playback stats), updating those tags. If I love a song outside of musicbee then the next time musicbee opens, those songs are flagged as loved in the mb database due to this sync operation. But even though these tags are updated in the sync, the ASR presets don't run as a result of the last.fm sync. It only seems to run if I either manually run the ASR or if I manually love the song within musicbee. I do listen to a lot of music on my phone outside of musicbee and I do love songs on last.fm from my phone so I'm trying to get ASR to play nice with this workflow and run automatically as a result of the last.fm sync. Hope that clears up what I do and what I'm trying to accomplish. I really do appreciate your help

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 16, 2019, 03:34:19 PM »

Loved *is* a tag, though it's stored in mb database only. virtual tags are not stored anywhere at all, they are calculated dynamically.

I have all the presets I created ticked to run automatically. Also, functionally, the last.fm love sync DOES update the tags when it runs but the ASR presets don't reflect this (and run accordingly) when that sync is done. Is there anything that can be done to fix this?

this must work. what happens if you run preset manually?

If I select a Loved track and run the ASR preset manually it will work. If I Love a track within Musicbee then the rating will update automatically. But when I love a track outside of musicbee the ASR preset doesn't run automatically after the love sync happens at startup.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 15, 2019, 04:50:21 PM »

If there is no way to automatically run ASR presets at startup would it be possible to add the "if Loved" criteria to the auto-rate tracks functionality so that it could be run at startup? All I'm after is some sort of automatic way for Musicbee to rate my loved tracks so that I can keep my Loves synced between Last.fm, my flac server and my phone.

asr presets can't be run automatically on mb startup. they are run if any tag is changed (or if new track(s) is added to the library). but you tick preset to set Loved status if you change rating.

I have all the presets I created ticked to run automatically. Also, functionally, the last.fm love sync DOES update the tags when it runs but the ASR presets don't reflect this (and run accordingly) when that sync is done. Is there anything that can be done to fix this?

EDIT: Love is not a tag. It's a virtual tag in the musicbee database. That's why it's not running. No actual tag is being updated at startup. I'm going to create custom tag (not virtual) called Loved and another ASR preset that says if Love = L, make Loved = L also. Then run my rating preset against the Loved field since it's an actual tag and see if that works.

EDIT 2: That didn't work. I am formally requesting that running ASR presets at startup OR Auto-rate tracks based on Love status be added as a feature to the plugin.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 15, 2019, 02:35:51 AM »

I'm having a problem with Advanced Search and replace. I have set up a rule to automatically rate any song 3.5 when Love=L and another one that does the reverse, Love a song if it's rated 3.5. This works generally when I'm using it but I have a script set to launch Musicbee, wait 60 seconds and close at night so that it syncs my playcounts and loves (from the day when using my phone) so that those stats are accurate. My phone doesn't use Loves so I'm trying to get musicbee to automatically rate songs 3.5 once the love sync happens but it's not doing it. I have an everything playlist that encompasses my entire library and I have the ASR presets I built set to run automatically if the song is in my everything playlist and I've tested it and it doesn't run. Help please.

If there is no way to automatically run ASR presets at startup would it be possible to add the "if Loved" criteria to the auto-rate tracks functionality so that it could be run at startup? All I'm after is some sort of automatic way for Musicbee to rate my loved tracks so that I can keep my Loves synced between Last.fm, my flac server and my phone.

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Questions / Re: Favorite artists query

« on: December 09, 2019, 07:26:46 PM »

Just wanted to say thanks, @boroda. defining the field type as number worked. I appreciate the help

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Questions / Re: Favorite artists query

« on: December 06, 2019, 03:59:36 PM »

Right on. I'll give that a try when I get home from work. I appreciate your help. I've never used the virtual tags or library reports before so I'm learning a lot more about the more powerful features of musicbee. It's neat. 

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Questions / Re: Favorite artists query

« on: December 06, 2019, 06:21:12 AM »

The leading zeroes are not for decoration. They are for sorting. The values in the final tag I'm using are in the triple digits and the numbering is wrong. Leading zeroes should ensure that natural numbering is restored.

As it is now, it sorts 100s, 10s, 20s, 30s etc instead of coming after 90s. I hope that clarifies my problem.

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Questions / Re: Favorite artists query

« on: December 06, 2019, 04:21:11 AM »

That got it. For some reason the $ALR virtual tag I used to create the playlist didn't allow me to use greater than or less than symbols to run the search. I had to search around for regex on the internet to match any number greater than 5. That was difficult as I don't understand regex.

Also, How do you add a leading zero to the $ALR(<URL>,my function id)

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Questions / Favorite artists query

« on: December 04, 2019, 04:31:43 AM »

I'm looking for a way to generate a list of favorite artists and I haven't been able to do it thus far. What I want is a list of album artists wherein the # of tracks I have rated as Loved by them exceeds 5. I couldn't find a way to do this with auto playlists and I don't understand how the library reporting tools work to know if I could achieve it via that method. Can anyone help?

EDIT: I was thinking about this more and I think I have an idea what will do it but I don't know how to actually do it.

1. create a custom tag "AA Love Count"
2. Run an auto library report that grabs the total tracks that I've loved by an Album artist and write that number to the tag. (can you apply this tag to all tracks across your whole library? I really need some sort of super ELI5 tutorial about how the library reports work)
3. create an auto playlist that uses my Loved tracks playlist as the source that says "match all tracks where AA Love Count exceeds 5"

If someone can walk me through the actual process for doing that I'd be grateful.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: REQUEST: 'Virtual Albums' within MB from Albums/Boxsets in Album Covers View

« on: December 03, 2019, 10:13:06 PM »

I'd even settle to be able to create playlist thumbnails

Setting cover art for playlists is a fantastic idea.