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Portable Devices / Re: Re: Wifi android device synching

« on: March 08, 2019, 07:12:17 PM »

Yes sir. MB exports the Playlist files to the desired location but BlackPlayer isn't reading it automatically so i tried by using the Import option in BlackPlayer to import .m3u file i exported via MB and it worked fine. But this pain in the ** to do it again and again and ruin the experience. I will contact the developer BlackPlayer about it.

Thank you for your help buddy!

No problem.  But I think you may have missed the advice in what I was saying.

Have MB put your playlists in \Music\Playlists and have Blackplayer scan \Music\ and it will pick up the playlists.  It seems \Blackplayer\Playlists\ is an internal folder and not one where the player expect to find external synchronized playlists.

I did follow your advice bro but that didn't work automatically. It only do what [BlackPlayer/Playlists/] was doing. It creates a folder 'Playlists' in Music directory and places .m3u but BlackPlayer isn't detecting it automatically. I had to use 'Import Playlists from Android Library' option in Blackplayer and it worked like it did with [BlackPlayer/Playlists].

It's strange that BlackPlayer isn't detecting these playlists automatically whereas there is no problem with the tracks themselves.

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Portable Devices / Re: Re: Wifi android device synching

« on: March 08, 2019, 06:56:18 PM »

You can see my 'Device Preferences' in the below screenshot. I never changed storage path as it don't gives me an issue. It copies the tracks or folders in the Music directory of android. For Playlists, i changed the directory to [BlackPlayer\Playlists\] so it copies to player's playlists and then appears in the player itself too.

Device Preferences

Now to transfer the whole Playlist to my phone, i used 'Send to Device' feature by right-clicking. It copied the tracks and playlist but the problem is that Playlist i copied is not being displayed in the player itself. I don't know what's wrong here. You can see in the below that playlist file (.m3u) is copied to player's directory.

Playlist file in Phone

A question about why Blackplayer isn't displaying playlists that are on your phone is really a question for Blackplayer's forums, as MB is doing what you told it to and putting the playlist where you told it to put it.

But my guess is that the Blackplayer\Playlists folder is for playlists generated within that player and for its own copies of external playlists it finds elsewhere, which it would look for in a subdirectory of your Music folder.  I only say that because that's the way every other player I've ever used on Android works.

But again, MB is doing what you ask it to correctly, so this isn't a MusicBee problem.

Yes sir. MB exports the Playlist files to the desired location but BlackPlayer isn't reading it automatically so i tried by using the Import option in BlackPlayer to import .m3u file i exported via MB and it worked fine. But this pain in the ** to do it again and again and ruin the experience. I will contact the developer BlackPlayer about it.

Thank you for your help buddy!

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Portable Devices / Re: Re: Wifi android device synching

« on: March 08, 2019, 10:33:11 AM »

We're trying to help you by asking for further information and you seem to either be ignoring it or not providing it. If you want help, you've got to give a little. See my reply #288.

You can see my 'Device Preferences' in the below screenshot. I never changed storage path as it don't gives me an issue. It copies the tracks or folders in the Music directory of android. For Playlists, i changed the directory to [BlackPlayer\Playlists\] so it copies to player's playlists and then appears in the player itself too.

Device Preferences

Now to transfer the whole Playlist to my phone, i used 'Send to Device' feature by right-clicking. It copied the tracks and playlist but the problem is that Playlist i copied is not being displayed in the player itself. I don't know what's wrong here. You can see in the below that playlist file (.m3u) is copied to player's directory.

Playlist file in Phone

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Portable Devices / Re: Re: Wifi android device synching

« on: March 07, 2019, 09:35:06 PM »

Well guys, sorry for being a little noob here.    I have never used wired sync feature before and always copy/paste album folders directly to the phone via Windows Explorer. But with this new Wi-Fi Sync feature i thought to give it a try but failed miserably.

I love BlackPlayer and has it's paid version. I want to keep using it. So that's why i want that MB put .m3u playlist files directly to BlackPlayer's Playlists folder and not in the root of Internal Storage.

I will try again and let you guys know. Thanks.

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Portable Devices / Re: Re: Wifi android device synching

« on: March 07, 2019, 04:25:42 PM »

I use BlackPlayer so when i do import playlist's m3u files into player's Playlist directory it doesn't detect it. I mean playlists don't appears inside the player but the tracks did. The directory is correct but i don't know why is it not working. It would be awesome if i can import whole playlists from MusicBee into BlackPlayer.

Does BlackPlayer work with playlists synced by MB with a wired connection? The playlist content is no different whether its wired sync or wireless, and you will need to raise it with the BlackPlayer developer. The file paths in the playlist are relative to the root folder of the card and in windows format, so its possible BlackPlayer cant handle that

Man, this whole syncing system should be straightforward. Even wired sync gives me issue with playlists. It only copies the tracks of the playlist and not the playlist file (.m3u) itself. Even if i give the directory path to BlackPlayer's playlists folder it doesn't go there.

Sync would be useful if it copies the tracks to Music folder and Playlists to the android player's folder for Playlists as in my case it would be BlackPlayer\Playlists

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Portable Devices / Re: Re: Wifi android device synching

« on: March 06, 2019, 09:02:16 PM »

Also there should be an option to include folders manually in the preferences like if i want to just sync only two albums then why do i need to sync whole music? And there should be an easy way to do it like you should be able to just right-click on any album in MusicBee and click Sync and boom it goes to the phone.

you can do that with wired sync, using right click/ Send To/ Device

Thank you for pointing this out.

I'm also having problems with playlists. I use BlackPlayer so when i do import playlist's m3u files into player's Playlist directory it doesn't detect it. I mean playlists don't appears inside the player but the tracks did. The directory is correct but i don't know why is it not working. It would be awesome if i can import whole playlists from MusicBee into BlackPlayer.

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Portable Devices / Synching playlists with Blackplayer

« on: March 06, 2019, 04:33:04 PM »

I just tried it by syncing a playlist in 'Device Preferences' and it worked pretty well. The songs came into my 'Music' folder of the phone instantly thus imported automatically to the android player i use i.e. BlackPlayer.

But the problem is that if i want to delete this playlist/songs from my phone i cannot unsync from the phone/computer. Deleting manually is illogical after syncing. I unchecked that playlist in MusicBee preferences but that didn't reflect in the phone. Will it be possible only with 2 way Wifi Sync?

Also there should be an option to include folders manually in the preferences like if i want to just sync only two albums then why do i need to sync whole music? And there should be an easy way to do it like you should be able to just right-click on any album in MusicBee and click Sync and boom it goes to the phone.

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Beyond MusicBee / Re: Video Player which supports media library

« on: May 05, 2017, 11:54:43 AM »

Might be a bit heavy for your requirements.  But I use Team Mediaportal (1.x branch) with StreamedMP skin, MovingPictures plugin and TVSeries plugin.  They provide the metadata and also keep track of which movies and TV episodes you have watched.

Lots to fiddle with there

Cheers

Is it light on system resources? I got Core i3 with 4GB RAM.

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Beyond MusicBee / Video Player which supports media library

« on: April 06, 2017, 12:28:02 PM »

Hi guys,

For a music player, there is no better player than MusicBee. It's all i ever wanted in a music player.

But now a days, i am looking for a similar player for video playback. I have been a VLC user for a long time but now i am basically looking for a player which shows my Movies and TV Show library with their posters, artwork, info, metadata etc. just like MusicBee, just to be more organized and fun watching. I don't like to play videos by going into drives anymore after using MusicBee. 

After some research, i found Cyberlink PowerDVD, it shows you posters (screenshot attached), organize the media and the video/audio enhancement is cool.

Some of the artwork is missing the filenames were not accurate, i would do later with FileBot.



Now the thing which is bothering me about Cyberlink PowerDVD is that it takes a lot of resources and also it's right-click context is quite slow which i have to use occasionally to get subtitles and other options and takes around 3-4 seconds to pop. The video playback and other functions are smooth though.

So can someone recommend me any good video player which organizes and displays the media library the way i want?

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Questions / Re: How to handle genres in left panel

« on: April 02, 2017, 05:14:11 PM »

menu> tools> tagging tools> search & replace

Oh I didn't know that. Thanks a lot man, it worked like a charm.

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Questions / Re: How to handle genres in left panel

« on: April 02, 2017, 10:35:16 AM »

You can change the separator Picard uses in the options.

Yes, this helped. Now it's showing the album in their all genres. Like if an album has Alternative Rock and Pop-Rock as their genres. It shows album separately in both genres.

But i have tagged all the previous albums with "/" as a separator so i have to changed their separators. Is there any automated way to do it?

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Questions / Re: How to handle genres in left panel

« on: April 01, 2017, 05:18:22 PM »

separate genres using ";"

Yes, but that's in the MusicBee i guess. I use Musicbrainz Picard directly for tagging.

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Questions / How to handle genres in left panel

« on: April 01, 2017, 02:10:09 PM »

Hi guys,

How do you handle you genres in the left panel? I recently tagged all my music using Musicbrainz Picard and bring them in MusicBee library and use auto-organize to put all the music in their respective folders. It works awesome but i am little confused about the genres.

For example; If an album have multiple genres, i put them manually in Musicbrainz Picard and it put them separately using "/". Now the problem is that the genres are displayed quite badly in MB's left panel (see the screenshot).



Is there any way that MB shows only primary genre of that album or the genre i put first in the Musicbrainz Picard. It will help to stay organized

OR

Please share what you guys are doing with your genres in left panel. Thank you.

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Plugins / Re: MusicBee Remote (Remote Control for Android)

« on: April 01, 2017, 10:02:25 AM »

Hi there,

Do you by any chance run Android 5.0 on P8 Lite? there was a notification related bug with P8's Android 5.0 based OS that would crash any application trying to show some types of notifications (like the media notification showed by MusicBee Remote after connection).

Unfortunately there is no way to fix it on the application side, though I am under the impression that it was fixed in a later OS (6.0) update.
Regardless, the application includes an option in settings Notification Control that allows you to disable the notification display. Since the error is related to the notification, this option might help you avoid the bug.  

Yes, I am running Android 5.0.1 on P8 Lite. But the problem has been solved now and the app is working fine now.

Notification Control didn't solve it, it was still minimizing the app once it's opened. So by your post i came to know that the issue is related to Notifications so i went ahead into system settings and turned off all the notifications for MusicBee Remote and it's working okay now. Thanks for the help Kelsos.

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Plugins / Re: MusicBee Remote (Remote Control for Android)

« on: March 31, 2017, 10:02:25 AM »

Hi everyone,

I just installed Musicbee Remote on my Huawei P8 Lite phone and installed the plugin in my laptop. The app detected my laptop and current playing song also appears on the main screen but as soon as the app starts, it turns off automatically. It was working fine before i installed the plugin and laptop was detected. It stays hardly for 2 seconds and shuts down. I tried several times and couldn't figure out the issue. Please help. Thank you.