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Questions / Re: A way to limit CPU usage when synchronizing an external device?

« on: June 06, 2018, 10:54:14 PM »

Worked fine, I also reduced the number of simultaneous encoding from 7 to 2, it's way more standable for my computer and for me now!

Thanks a lot.

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Questions / A way to limit CPU usage when synchronizing an external device?

« on: June 06, 2018, 09:40:17 PM »

Hello,

I have a little problem ; when synchronizing my library with an external device (an ipod classic), it takes my whole CPU (i7-4720HQ) to do so, the problem is it takes hours and my computer is hurling pushing fans and CPU at their limit, it makes a lot of noises and litteraly burn my computer.

I don't care if you provide me a solution that double the synchronization time, but I would like to have a way to limit CPU usage and preventing my computer to go to space.

Note I already tried to reduce process priority in the process manager (almost no difference) and I convert all (all of them with no exception ; more than 20,000) my files while synchonizing them (which probably rise the CPU usage too).


Thanks a lot for any help you could provide.

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Questions / Re: Sorting compilation with different artist for each song

« on: June 26, 2017, 02:21:16 AM »

Argh, just tried it, doesn't work as I wanted, that's the exact same result of what I described in my original post.

What does the "iTunes Compilation" option exactly? I mean I never ever saw any difference using it neither in iTunes nor in MusicBee, is it suppose to group different artist into one like it is in a compilation? If so, it as never worked for me neither in iTunes nor in my iPod classic, I already tried this option several years ago in iTunes.

Actually, that not a big deal, I think I can live without it, I will probably gave up on trying to have different artist for a compilation then.
Thanks for your help.

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Questions / Re: Is it possible to make "ignore words" option to work with iPod classic?

« on: June 26, 2017, 02:06:47 AM »

I guess so, apple devices seem to be very incomplete regarding tags and options, but what I mean is since it does work with iTunes, when synchronizing "The Rolling Stones" with iTunes, it's automatically sorted as "Rolling Stones, The" while it is displayed "The Rolling Stones", I think it's something with the library files in the iPod, but anyway I guess it's not possible to do it with MusicBee, at least for now.

Then I will try probably use the option to replace artist tag by sort artist tag, and make some changes regarding the way I sorted some of my artist name.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

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Questions / Re: Is auto-organize capable of copying media files from a hard drive to another?

« on: June 26, 2017, 02:00:32 AM »

The iTunes like method does work great!
Sorry for not having figured out it by myself, I don't use the program for so long, so I don't know what the ton of options are for and I miss some of them.

Thanks a lot, you're such a big help right here!

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Questions / Sorting compilation with different artist for each song

« on: June 26, 2017, 01:23:59 AM »

Hello,

Because of the bad way iTunes manages and display some files I used a precise way to sort some artists, mostly some compilations putting them in a fake artist named "zzCompilation" ("zz" to be at the very end of the list).
Now I use MusicBee which has many more customization, I would want to put the real artist in the artist tag but have those compilation to still appear the same way as before (so sorted like if it was the same artist and the album).

Now it will get very tricky for me to explain, so sorry if you don't get what I mean, say it, and I will try to show it with screenshots and different explanations.

Currently when I have a compilation, the artist and the album artist tag are "zzCompilation", then the title use this pattern "<Title>(<Artist>)" ("<Artist>" is the real artist, not "zzCompilation").
I saw if I set album artist tag with "zzCompilation", I set artist tag with the real artist and the title with just the title in it and nothing more, then I change the sort I used (from artist tag) to album artist tag in the thumbnail browser panel, it works: I see different artist all being on the same album and grouped together.
BUT this causes many issues since I have to change the sort I use and the most important thing, in my iPod classic, music are sorted by artist and there's no way to sort them by album artist, so if you followed all until here, it means I get my compilation to not be displayed correctly in the iPod (song is sort in the real artist instead of being under "zzCompilation" name).

So I assumed by inverting artist and album artist tag, it would be a success, I was wrong, because then it's MusicBee that doesn't appreciate it, whatever the sorting is, if the album artist tag differs from the music of the same album (if the tag is inconsistent), it seems to separate each song like if it was a new album for each of them.

Then is there anyway to get rid of this issue?

Thanks in advance for answering my question.
(By the way, sorry for doing several threads, I tired to not mixed up questions that have nothing in common to keep a clear subject for future researches).

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Questions / Is it possible to make "ignore words" option to work with iPod classic?

« on: June 26, 2017, 01:03:51 AM »

Hello,

I pair my library with an iPod classic 160GB, it works great almost no problem, the only problem is the "ignore words" option doesn't work for the artist in my iPod classic, I get this option modify the sort artist tag, but it doesn't seem to be recognized by the iPod classic while synchronizing with iTunes actually makes words like "The" or "A" to be ignored properly.
I saw there is option called "replace artist tag with:" that I thought for a moment would do the trick but it doesn't, when I set it to "display artist", nothing changes and when I select "sort artist", it does work but it really "just simply" replace the artist tag (the one displayed on the iPod menu) by the sort artist tag which is pretty ugly in my opinion, mostly since I use a very particular way to prompt a few of my artists (those with non romanic characters), I use parenthesis which look terrible with the sort artist tag.

So is there any way to make this to work as I want? I already tried the iPod/iPhone driver plugin, it doesn't work, at least it doesn't fix the issue I'm having.

And by the way, I saw on another thread Steven doesn't really want to put much effort into synchronisation with apple devices mostly because iTunes driver are copyrighted or something like that and so it's not possible to add and remove manually files to the iPod, but is there any option to completely reset the whole library because it isn't possible through the iPod classic itself (or I don't know how to do it) and the only way I know is by iTunes again.

Thanks in advance for your future answers.

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Questions / Is auto-organize capable of copying media files from a hard drive to another?

« on: June 26, 2017, 12:50:25 AM »

Hello,

Currently, I just tried for the first time to add new music files to my main MusicBee collection, I do have checked "auto-organize media files" option, there's no filter configured at all, after adding a few music present on the same hard drive as MusicBee in the inbox then in the library, no problem at all, it worked correctly, they have been moved from their previous location to MusicBee folders architecture.
But when I tried to do so with music files from another hard drive the exact same way, they are playable and all, but it just doesn't bother moving them while it should, is it normal?
Another precision, those files I mentioned are part of my secondary library in my external disk, I didn't selected "auto-organize media files" option nor any filter at all for that precise second library, maybe that could be the problem? Removed the whole second library, the issue is still a thing.

And by the way, is there anyway create a "Add automatically files" folder like on iTunes in Musicbee (a folder where the program checks for new files to be added and when it detects them, it adds them to the folders architecture of the library)?
Also is there any way to not have the file to be moved but to be copied instead (keeping them in the location they where plus adding them to the library)?

Thanks for your considerations to my request.


EDIT: I also tried to go to the properties of the song to see if I was able to relocate an already added song in the library, but the "location" option is always grayed and even when I move the files to have MusicBee to indicate me the files are missing, I have no option to tell it where I moved them, so I have no other choice than removing the files from my library then moving them through Windows explorer and finally add them back to MusicBee, that's pretty annoying in my opinion, but maybe there's something I didn't get.

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Skins / Re: Jistme the NightBee 'Touch' edition

« on: June 10, 2017, 02:16:02 PM »

Yes it's fixed by now, thanks to you and Steven!

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Skins / Re: Jistme the NightBee 'Touch' edition

« on: June 09, 2017, 08:37:04 PM »

I feel stupid, but I have another problem now after updating MusicBee and downloading again your skin.
Now the progress bar is cut and isn't displayed correctly, look here what I get:

No need to doubt yourself. Concerning skins and skinning, both MusicBee and my skins are works in progress for v3.1 at the moment.
I updated the skin to (probably) fix the latest issue you mentioned. Same download link.

What a relief to hear such thing, I though I was abusing your patience, that's why I was feeling stupid and everything, I'm happy to see I'm a pain to read for you.

Your fix works great, concerning me, there's no more problem, so thank you a lot for you consideration about my reports, but since I saw two other things by now I will report mostly for you since they aren't much a big deal for me.

1 - It isn't very important, but there's a slight problem (I think) with the beginning of the progress bar, sorry if it isn't a problem, I'm basing my opinion on your first screenshot where I don't see this, but maybe it's because I'm on a full HD screen or something, I don't know, here's the screenshot.


2 - By updating MusicBee, I saw now you can switch between the progress bar and a wave bar, but the wave bar is green.



Sorry to repeat it, but thanks for being that quick, effective and sympathetic in your answers, I appreciate a lot.

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Skins / Re: Jistme the NightBee 'Touch' edition

« on: June 09, 2017, 07:35:52 PM »

Oh, I'm sorry, I really though I had the latest build by now, I guess I was wrong, sorry again.


I feel stupid, but I have another problem now after updating MusicBee and downloading again your skin.
Now the progress bar is cut and isn't displayed correctly, look here what I get:


I already tried to switch from different skins, to remove and add again the player controls in the panels configuration menu, I also tried to place the progress bar in the bottom of the screen, I tried to see if scaling the windows change anything, but no matter what I do I can't figure out how to solve this.

Notice that the two previous problems I had are gone now, so thanks for that!

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Skins / Re: Jistme the NightBee 'Touch' edition

« on: June 09, 2017, 03:26:25 PM »

A request for members that have a touch tablet and are willing to try this out:

On my tablet, with this skin the buttons for 'shuffle' and 'repeat' don't refresh to the correct state after they have been clicked.
Also when the progress-bar is swiped to another position within the playing track, the small time position pop-up indicator stays on the screen instead of disappearing again.

Feedback if this happens to others too is appreciated.

I don't have those issue, but I have two others with this skin, I'm not using a tablet but I still prefer using this skin instead of the normal one because bigger buttons plus their position are way more satisfying regarding my tastes.
Here is the two problems I have:

1 - When the progression bar reach artist and song text, it covers them, making them completely gone a little after half the second (difficult to explain, but by looking to the progression bar in the screenshots, you will understand what I mean).



2 - When switching to "Now Playing" mode then using the "Large Album" view, if you activate the right panel for lyrics or biography, you will get a green background.


By the way, I love your work!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Album cover art thumbnail in the artist thumbnail browser

« on: June 08, 2017, 07:20:51 PM »

displaying album covers in the thumbnail browser is supported in v3.1
You can get v3.1 from the first forum topic
Click the thumbnail header bar and untick "Show Artist Pictures"

Oh thanks a lot, I had to update the program I didn't know there was an ulterior version than the one in the download section, it works great now, sorry to have requested something already incorporate in the program.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Album cover art thumbnail in the artist thumbnail browser

« on: June 08, 2017, 05:31:59 PM »

Hello,

I wish I could use an album covert art as a thumbnail instead of the artist picture while scrolling in the thumbnail browser sorted per artists exactly like iTunes 12.

This fonction is already a thing in MusicBee but only work if the artist couldn't be resoled through internet and then if MusicBee didn't find any artist picture for the current artist, I would like to have this as an option for all artist.

I put two screenshots to make it more comprehensible if needed:

iTunes 12:                               MusicBee 3:
     

Thanks in advance for reading my request and eventually accepting it.

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Questions / Re: Cover Art instead of Artist Picture

« on: June 08, 2017, 03:25:01 PM »

Thanks for your quick answer, I will do as you said then and request for its potential approval and addition.