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Questions / Re: Auto-Tag Artwork With Local Files
« on: March 23, 2023, 04:27:36 PM »
Hello,

Thank you for your reply. I will try playing around with those settings to see what, if anything, happens. I could be wrong, but I believe that is for artwork that is retrieved via MusicBee, not pre-downloaded images. I hope it works with local files.

I hope I can set up some sort of filename template that matches what I already have. I originally had them as the same names as the songs they are attributed to with the variants suffixed in a similar way to what they are now, but I wanted to keep the MP3s separate from the JPGs when viewing in a file explorer.

I don't wholly care about the 'Album Cover' and 'Album Cover (back)' labels as much as the auto-embedding itself. The way things work now, if I need to update the front cover for every song, I have to overwrite all the main album artwork for all the songs, than re-add all the single artwork to each song one-by-one after that. Unlike the one I used in my example, this isn't the case with most albums, but it's still annoying and tedious regardless. All it takes is one image or song to restart the process all over again.

I will try out your suggestion and see what kind of conclusion I come to. Hopefully, the worst it comes to is renaming all the artwork to fit a filenaming template MusicBee can read, which I can automate with a program since everything is already in a given format. If unsuccessful, I'll put in a request to the wishlist board.

Thank you again for reading and offering a potential solution.

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Questions / Auto-Tag Artwork With Local Files
« on: March 19, 2023, 10:22:19 PM »
Hey, Everyone,

Just wanted to see, is there a way to make MusicBee automatically add, remove or otherwise update artwork that is already downloaded?

When I add music to my library, I always look for the highest quality versions of the album and single artworks I can find, then download them to the folder with the MP3s. I attribute all the album covers as 'Album Cover' and the single artworks as 'Album Cover (back),' then I base their filenames on what they are. Here is an example:



For all the images, I count how many versions I can find of a particular cover and count it at the end of the filename, preceded by an underscore. With the singles, I precede the underscore with the disc and track number associated with the song file. For both album and single artworks, the ones with "Original" means I had to alter the original image, typically to make them square, but I always keep the originals. If it says "Original," I don't add it to the songs' metadata in MusicBee; just the altered versions.

With a filenaming scheme this detailed, is there a way for MusicBee to automatically save the images into each song's metadata like I have them organized in the folder already? I realize how niche this sort of feature would be, but I figured there's no hurt in asking. Thank you for your input!

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Questions / Re: Theatre Mode Album Art
« on: September 05, 2021, 04:02:51 PM »
Bumping this thread. I'm in the exact same position. I sometimes DJ and do other audio-visual work. When I have to project to a screen for a portion of the job, it'd be really nice to have the ability to play music and have the embedded artwork for each song on rotation in Theater Mode like it is in the Now Playing tab. If anyone has any leads, please let me know! Thank you!

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Questions / Re: Artist Picture Filenames With Illegal Characters
« on: May 25, 2018, 05:39:16 PM »
The separator can be any character as long as it's neither an alphabet nor a number.
One thing to note is if there's only Adele_2.jpg without Adele.jpg then MB still retrieves one web picture even when that option's disabled (Artist picture view in now playing panel> retrieve web picture option) and then show either of the two. If it's just Adele.jpg, then it only shows it without downloading a new one.

OK. That is helpful to know. Thanks!

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Questions / Re: Artist Picture Filenames With Illegal Characters
« on: May 25, 2018, 04:20:48 AM »
Ok, now I see what you're saying. I can only verify what frankz pointed out, every AC/DC file on my disk that's handled by MB is formatted as "AC DC" (separated by a space), whether it be .jpg, .png or .dat. And that pattern is consistent through other artists. Musicbee replaces illegal characters in file names with a space which means that the example you provided "AC DC.jpg" should've worked.

In which folder are you placing the jpg's and how are the file names formatted when you have multiple pictures of the same artist? You said you didn't run into any issues until AC/DC, have you verified that the artist pictures you've added manually up to AC/DC are being displayed in theater mode?

OK, I got the Artist Pictures to work with artists with illegal characters by replacing them with spaces. If I were to have multiple images of one artist, how would I format the filename of those images?

If I recall correctly, the file names should be formatted like this "Artist_1.jpg", but the first picture of a set has to have only the name of the artist. Say you have 3 pictures of Adele, they would be formatted like this:

Adele.jpg
Adele_1.jpg
Adele_2.jpg

User redwing made a post about this a while back regarding the naming of these pictures but of course I can't find that post again... But I believe the above formatting is correct so you should definitely start there.

Yes, it works! Awesome! Thanks!

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Questions / Re: Artist Picture Filenames With Illegal Characters
« on: May 25, 2018, 03:46:22 AM »
Ok, now I see what you're saying. I can only verify what frankz pointed out, every AC/DC file on my disk that's handled by MB is formatted as "AC DC" (separated by a space), whether it be .jpg, .png or .dat. And that pattern is consistent through other artists. Musicbee replaces illegal characters in file names with a space which means that the example you provided "AC DC.jpg" should've worked.

In which folder are you placing the jpg's and how are the file names formatted when you have multiple pictures of the same artist? You said you didn't run into any issues until AC/DC, have you verified that the artist pictures you've added manually up to AC/DC are being displayed in theater mode?

OK, I got the Artist Pictures to work with artists with illegal characters by replacing them with spaces. If I were to have multiple images of one artist, how would I format the filename of those images?

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Questions / Re: Artist Picture Filenames With Illegal Characters
« on: May 25, 2018, 03:37:47 AM »
OK, so I handle illegal characters by replacing them with spaces.

I do not currently have multiple images of the same artist as of yet. They are currently saved to the MusicBee folder in my music library "C:\Users\[User Profile]\Music\MusicBee\Artist Pictures." All of the other images show up correctly because their respective artists do not have illegal characters in their names.

Where is this "Artist Picture" view? Are you referring to the artist thumbnails (Tools -> Artwork -> Downloader...)?

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Questions / Re: Artist Picture Filenames With Illegal Characters
« on: May 24, 2018, 08:49:52 PM »
This isn't for the artist thumbnails. It is for the pictures that appear in the 'Now Playing' tab and in some of the Theater Mode options. They are usually images that are downloaded from an online source and cycle on a random rotation, but I don't like their selection as many of them are portrait, not landscape. I also have some artists that aren't found on that artist database and want to add images for them manually.

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Questions / Artist Picture Filenames With Illegal Characters
« on: May 24, 2018, 05:31:09 PM »
I am manually adding Artist Pictures because I don't like the ones that are pulled from the Internet. So far, I have not run into any issues, that is, until I came to AC/DC. The slash in the band's name is considered to be an illegal character and thus can not be contained in the filename of my selected Artist Picture. What character do I put in place of the slash? I have tried "AC_DC.jpg," "AC DC.jpg," "AC-DC.jpg," "AC.DC.jpg," and "ACDC.jpg" and MusicBee doesn't recognize any of them.

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Questions / Re: MusicBee App - Where is the installation path?
« on: May 24, 2018, 05:18:19 PM »
C:\Program Files (x86)\MusicBee\MusicBee.exe

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I sometimes play music for various organizations using MusicBee. I like to project the Theater Mode through a projector or TV while I do work on my primary screen so that my audience doesn't have to stare at my desktop wallpaper. This is also useful in editing the queue. This setup works, but only until my cursor is hidden within the MusicBee program. When I turn Theater Mode off, the issue remains until I restart the program. Is there any way to fix this?

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Questions / Re: Relative Paths in Playlists
« on: February 24, 2018, 01:12:32 AM »
I did notice that the playlist already has to be in MBP format to do that. All of my playlists are already in M3U format. So, I'll have to either convert them or rebuild each playlist individually.

Will I have to do set up each playlist to individually automatically update the exported copy? Or will it do it for all playlists?

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Questions / Relative Paths in Playlists
« on: February 23, 2018, 11:01:29 PM »
I sync my entire music library with my phone using FreeFileSync. I also constantly update my playlists as I add and reorder songs to them. This is why exporting each playlist each time I update it would be a nightmare.

I save the playlists as .M3U files so that the Rocket Player app on my phone can read them, but the file paths are absolute when I open the playlist on my laptop even with the "Edit->Preferences->Library->Playlists->Use relative file paths" option checked. Am I missing something?

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Questions / Re: MusicBee Won't Automatically Add New Files
« on: February 23, 2018, 04:53:59 PM »
I feel so stupid. Yes, new files were set to go to the Inbox.

Thank you.

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Questions / MusicBee Won't Automatically Add New Files
« on: February 23, 2018, 04:11:24 PM »
I have recently had the experience of getting a new laptop due to a hard drive failure. Fortunately, I had all of my music on an external hard drive. Unfortunately, I did not save my library preferences to it. Now, I'm setting up both my music and MusicBee library on my internal hard drive.

I have been having an issue with this though. New music that I receive is not showing up in the library. I had set up the monitored folders option and since turned that off. I have manually rescanned the library from 'File->Add files to Library' several times to no avail. The only way that they will show up is if I manually drag each file from Windows Explorer into the MusicBee window.

This isn't the way it should work. Is there anything I am doing wrong or is it a bug?

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