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Plugins / Re: (Version 2.0.2) Spotify Integration Plugin

« on: January 24, 2020, 03:39:54 AM »

I appreciate the work on integrating MusicBee and Spotify.  But this integration is not really what I was hoping for.  What I'd like is what numerous people on Spotify's forums have been clamoring for - a single music player which can handle playlists containing streamed music from Spotify along with local .flac files.  Spotify is missing many songs and albums, and while their desktop client does support mixing local and streamed music together it only handles local .mp3 files.  Spotify has declared they will not be supporting .flac files for the foreseeable future despite acknowledging all the demand for this feature:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/Music-Local-FLAC-Playback/idi-p/124168

I'd like this Spotify integration to work one of two ways:

a) ability to drag songs from the Spotify client into MusicBee, creating an entry in the library we can then add to playlists along with local files
b) ability to browse our 'Liked' songs list from Spotify directly in MusicBee client, and then again add those songs along with local files into playlists

Obviously those things are contingent on what the Spotify API allows for.  I do think though that if MusicBee allows for the mixing and matching of local .flac and Spotify streams that will bring you a lot of new users due to the limitations of the Spotify client.

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Bug Reports / Re: Various bugs with M3U playlists

« on: June 26, 2017, 04:34:40 PM »

Update for anyone else who cares about this topic - it turns out the export functionality doesn't work when you specify M3U as the library playlist format.  If you keep it as MBP and then set your export format as M3U everything works as expected - relative paths, unix conventions, auto export setting.  This logically makes sense anyway - MusicBee should manage its playlists in whatever format it needs, and then exported files are generic enough to support external players.  Maybe the option to specify alt format for library playlists shouldn't be enabled if it breaks other functionality.  In any event, I consider this issue resolved. Sorry for the time the devs spent on this.

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Bug Reports / Re: Various bugs with M3U playlists

« on: June 26, 2017, 04:23:48 PM »

Hey, you figured it out!  In my example the H: drive is a mapped network drive containing my music collection.  When I have that as the export target in my library preferences none of the settings for relative / unix / etc paths work.  When I change the destination to my C: drive the unix path setting does take effect.  Unfortunately the relative path selection still does nothing.  I can work around that though because the 'map base file paths' option does work, so I can specify the path to my parent folder as the 'from' and leave the 'to' blank which results in relative paths, and since the unix style option works in conjunction with the mapped paths my resulting M3U files are what I was expecting.  I'll just have to manually move the exported files from my local to network drive.

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Bug Reports / Re: Various bugs with M3U playlists

« on: June 26, 2017, 03:03:00 PM »

Sorry phred, I don't think you read my initial post.  I am aware of the need to export playlists for use by other players.  The issue here is the exported M3U files contain absolute Windows file paths even though my settings specify relative paths and unix-style conventions.  In addition, the auto export setting of M3U playlists is cleared out each time MusicBee is closed.

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Bug Reports / Re: Various bugs with M3U playlists

« on: June 26, 2017, 02:34:40 PM »

The problem with using MBP playlists is you can't use them with other music players.  My goal with MusicBee was to manage my music collection including creating playlists for my Squeezebox server and portable music player.  Both support M3U files but not MBP.  Given that MusicBee supports external devices it would make sense to ensure the playlist functionality needed for them continues to work.  Also, it sounded from Steven's post the features I was looking for - relative paths and unix style convention support in exported playlists - were working for him.  So the ability is there.

I did find a separate UI quirk though that clarifies one of the issues I mentioned.  From the main music explorer window if I right click on an M3U playlist to edit it I get the dialog window I posted earlier.  If I go to the playlist view and right click on that same playlist to edit it I can see the screen where auto export setting is present.  So the same menu item is behaving differently depending on what view you are in.  Unfortunately if I check the auto export box and then close MusicBee that setting is cleared out the next time I open the edit playlist screen.

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Bug Reports / Re: Various bugs with M3U playlists

« on: June 26, 2017, 05:28:26 AM »

I created a static M3U playlist named 'Squeezebox'.  Here is where previously I could set the 'export automatically' setting:



Here is the popup I see when I select that menu item with the patch applied:



Here are my library settings regarding playlists:



Here is how I am trying to export the M3U file:



And here is the M3U file with full path despite the library settings specifying relative paths:

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Bug Reports / Various bugs with M3U playlists

« on: June 25, 2017, 09:07:33 PM »

Version: 3.1.6385 (installed, not portable)
Windows 10
Patch applied as suggested from here:  https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=21767.msg127732#msg127732


That patch supposedly resolved issues regarding M3U functionality, but as far as I can tell all it did was disable the screen for setting options regarding M3U playlists.  The following issues remain:

* Exported M3U playlists do not follow the settings specified in Preferences -> Library -> playlists.  M3U files are exported with absolute paths even with 'use relative file paths' checked.  In addition, the file path is in Windows format even with 'use unix path convention' checked.  Finally, the 'map base file paths in exported playlists' setting is ignored as well.

* With the above patch there is now no way to set a playlist to be automatically exported.  This setting was on the Playlist Settings screen which was disabled with the above patch.  Even without the patch this setting didn't work, because the checkbox for specifying automatic export was cleared each time the setting screen was closed.

* Not sure this is a bug or just a usability issue, but each time a playlist is selected from the Explorer screen it is opened as a new tab.  It results in having several duplicate tabs open.  Personally I don't think it makes sense to clutter the UI with redundant tabs like this.

Thanks.