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Questions / Re: Help with ripping and apostrophes
« on: September 24, 2021, 10:47:31 PM »
I did just this recently, whilst converting my entire library to MP3 for portable use after a fairly major re-ripping exercise (~600 discs). I use MediaMonkey for bulk file transcoding (blushes), and its MP3 tagger reports it cannot save tags with certain characters, and halts until you hit 'okay'. So it's handy to weed out illegal characters, like L/R single quotes, n-dashes, wacky double quotes, etc. that get downloaded from metadata engines.

I found the Tools/Tagging Tools/Search & Replace worked exactly as expected; it found the problem characters, and replaced them, reporting how many files it had modified (in the status bar). I do have the 'Additional Tagging Tools' plugin installed; not sure whether I'm using the stock tools, or the additional tools. checks: nope; I'm using the standard tools.

If I now try to find any L or R single quotes, none are found; I've already removed them.

Maybe you are not picking up the actual offending character; I picked it up using MS Word/Insert Character/Special character

My library is ~80k tracks, and the searches were pretty quick; just a few seconds.

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Plugins / Re: HDCD decoding
« on: March 02, 2021, 01:01:56 PM »
Just to clarify for the couple of people who are struggling to install this plugin (me included..)

It DOES NOT install via the Preferences/Plugins/Add Plugin dialogue.
(that was my problem: installing on a new PC, and over-familiarity of that dialogue, and not RTFM...)

RTFM on the first page:
1. Unzip HDCD.zip to put HDCD.dll into the Plugins folder
2. Go to Preferences/Player
3. Press the 'Equaliser & DSP' button
4. Tick the 'HDCD Decoder' in the 'DSP Plugins' section of the dialogue

HDCD tracks will now trigger the HDCD plugin to expand to 20bits

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Questions / Re: Casting MusicBee from PC to Chromecast - UPDATE
« on: November 12, 2019, 06:48:43 PM »
I've had some problems. But after I customized ChromeCast properly following this guide https://rocketfiles.com/articles/how-to-cast-from-chrome, everything works fine for me.

Casting from the Chrome browser to a CCA seems to use a rather nasty transcoding. See the review here:

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-chromecast-audio-digital-output.4544/

The CCA itself is fine. It's just the nasty transcoding.

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As posted above; one is 1024*768, the other 1024*600.

I'll dig out a temporary image site and upload some screenshots I captured.

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Another thought, along the lines of your earlier hotkey suggestion: would a simple 'return' key press to accept changes be possible? or would that potentially break too many other UI mechanisms in the other prefernce panels?

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I am doing the bare minimum to support making small screens usable. I think you are saying thats the case but if not then let me know.

Hi Steven,

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you.

No, sadly, on Win7 and Win8.1, the scroll bar behaviour doesn't allow scrolling to the 'Save' 'Close' etc buttons. On Win7, the scroll bar behaviour is very strange (as described in my earlier post).

Thanks for giving it a go; I understand not wanting to bother with an outlier use case. Given the strange behaviour with Win7 and Win8.1, I'd be tempted to remove the modification from a full released version, as it doesn't seem to be doing what either of us expected...

I've managed make the required changes by doing a diff between the settings files for my desktop and netbook installations, and copying the likely-looking settings across. The only thing I've not been able to manage is to force the track listing under an album in Album Covers mode to use two columns, even though there seems to be room to fit track titles. Looks like a (fixed?) title field width setting somewhere that I can't seem to find (displays in two columns on desktop, but that has a bit more space in the main panel).

The single colum/two column mode is controlled by the switch:
<AP_SingleColumn>true</AP_SingleColumn>

I changed the switch in my desktop install, and compared the difference between the old and new settings file; this was the only difference.

If I set this switch to true in my desktop installation, the track listing looks very much like it does on the netbook. But the netbook has the switch set to false. I've tried changing this switch (true and false) in the netbook settings file, and restarting MB, but, no matter what the setting, it remains in single column mode. I wonder if MB needs the switch to actually be set under the MB GUI itself, but that would imply a settings memory that isn't contained in the MusicBee3Settings. ini file, so it seems unlikely.

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Phew; tablet eventually came back to life...

Win 8.1, 1280x800 resolution

Scroll bars (of the fat, Windows type, with up/down buttons) appear for all preference sections that need them.

Layout(1) has a thin 'MB' scroll bar.

File Converters is rather confused; there appear to be three RH scroll bars; a 'Windows' style bar on the far right, an 'MB' style bar just inside and underneath the first, and another 'Windows' style bar underneath that... Previously, there was just one 'MB' style bar.

I'm using the Arsenic skin, if that's relevant.

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I'd try it out on the little tablet, but I foolishly just ran a Windows update, which seems to have bricked the device...

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Okay, here are some findings, on the 1024x600 netbook, Win7 Ultimate, task bar set to auto-hide.

version 3.4.7218 P
version 3.3.7165 P as reference

Unlike Freddy, I don't see new scroll bars on any Preferences panes, or Plugin config pages. It looks like the only difference from the previous version I can see is the odd behaviour of the Layout(1) scroll bar. I note he's using Win 10, and I'm using Win 7; is it a differnece in window handling between those versions...?

Opening Preferences, and selecting Layout(1), the scroll bar on the right starts as a standard Windows scroll bar, with a button at the top (the bottom is off the screen), normal Windows scrollbar width, full height of the window; it won't scroll at all. Switching to another preferences page and back to Layout(1), the scroll bar loses the button, and becomes the narrow 'MB' scroll bar width, filling only a fraction of the screen, which allows the pane to be scrolled. I can get as far as 'progress bar on bottom', but no further. The bottom section of the pane, that contains the buttons on a bigger viewport, and the pane border, are off the bottom of the screen.

Selecting 'Arrange Panels', the 'MusicBee Panels Configuration' pane opens with a scroll bar on the left. The scroll bar allows me to get to all the control elements. The pane is small enough that all three Apply/Save/Close buttons appear.

The Preferences 'Save' and 'Close' buttons 'float' over the preference options, just above the bottom of the screen (the button text seems to sit exactly on the bottom line of the screen), on any panes where the full pane cannot be shown (except see below...). The 'Apply' button does not appear at all on these panes.

On the 'Views Configuration' pane for the Main Panel/files Panel Settings/Show Settings button, none of the Apply/Save/Cancel buttons appear, and the scroll bar doesn't reach them; it looks like the 'click to set overrides for the configured MusicBee layout' section is reserving space in the pane, which forces the Apply/Save/Close buttons off the bottom of the screen.

On my larger viewport device, the Preference pane is a fixed size, and each of the sections fits within that pane. The buttons at the bottom are in a fixed position. When deployed on a smaller viewport device, it's not possible to get to the bottom of this fixed size pane; it's off the bottom of the screen. What I think is needed is the ability to scroll the entire contents of the preferences pane, section selection panel and all, within the available viewport dimensions. This would require enquiring from Windows the available viewport dimensions, and sizing the Preferences pane to suit, applying a whole pane scrolling if required. Apologies if that's what you were already trying to achieve...

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Thanks, Steven; that sounds very promising. Happy to test it.

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Thanks, Steven. Maybe it ought to be a 'feature request', rather than a bug report, since it's fairly clear that there isn't any scrolling.

It would be nice if you could find a way to support smaller viewport devices, as they make a nice way to provide a truly mobile music library; I bought the little netbook for £17, and the tablet that started this query for £25... They both run MB beautifully, apart from the config problem.

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ps. Thanks for responding; I thought it unusual to get no replies at all to this enquiry.

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If I'm going to do workarounds, I'll just edit the config file...

I'm trying to guage whether anyone else has this problem (or can reproduce it), before submitting a bug report. I can reproduce it on two devices, so I'm pretty sure it's a genuine problem, and not just something I'm doing stupid. That the latter cannot be ruled out...

My gut feel is that it wouldn't be a particularly difficult fix; probably modifying the parameters of the pop-up window to allow scrolling.

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No portrait mode on desktop...

Some means to scroll within the config window seems to be required.

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Questions / Re: Configuration dialogue boxes on low-resolution displays
« on: October 03, 2019, 03:45:00 PM »
Having recently bought a little secondhand netbook to run MB, with a 1024x600 pixel display, I can't even configure the panel settings, because the Apply/Save/Cancel buttons are off the screen, and not just in the plug-ins. Hence the modified thread title.

I couldn't find a 'minimum system requirements' spec on the MB home page, that might make me expect that my low resolution display devices simply aren't suitable for running MB (which would be a shame, as they're otherwise perfectly capable, and only use a few percent CPU running MB).

Problem still present in latest Portable install 3.3.7165

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