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Portable Devices / Looking for the most foolproof 2 Way Sync solution.

« on: July 15, 2020, 03:46:55 PM »

Hi everyone, I decided to do this the other way around: instead of buying something and then trying to get it to work with musicbee, I want to start here by asking what works and then get the most cost-effective option. The bar I'm setting for this is pretty low: just the same basic functionality I had 15 years ago with my Ipod classic (RIP my little clickwheel-y friend) and iTunes 4.0. As long as it feels like I'm carrying around my music library in my pocket I'm happy with whatever solution we can find! In bulletpoints that means:

- mini-jack output
- supports flac & mp3
- some basic controls and a display
- syncs plays with musicbee (bonus points if it also syncs last.fm)
- syncs files with musicbee
- storage minimum 16 GB, but would prefer 128GB (having the whole collection on there would require a 1TB mp3 player, which doesn't exist yet..)
- a solution where I sync an SD card is also fine.
- sync over wifi is fine too, but not necessary (got a VPN that'll makes things more difficult)
- I rather not use my phone, the audio jack is broken and there's little storage space.

What is the best supported solution? what do you use?

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Questions / Send Musicbee's play history to last.fm

« on: June 04, 2020, 07:36:28 PM »

I just (re)discovered last.fm, and have correctly configured it to scrobble the music I'm playing now. What I can't figure out is how I send my play history (for every track the playcount+the last date I've played it) to the last.fm site.
Is there a way to collect that data and upload it to last.fm? its a decade worth of plays so manually isn't an option here.

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Screenshots / Re: Config/theme show off thread.

« on: March 05, 2020, 01:46:41 PM »

I would love an even more aesthetic, outlandish skin. Think the looks of WINAMP, windows 95, etc. something nostalgic to the early digital age.

Remember... this?

wow that's amazing! I don't remember it but I had a winAMP skin back then that had a similar vibe to this one I have zero experience in building skins unfortunately otherwise I'd make an over-the-top early digital art skin..

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Questions / Re: auto-organise naming templates: what is convenient for filesharing?

« on: February 21, 2020, 01:44:17 PM »

I thought it'd be nice to come back and post my solution to the problem. This is the formula I'm currently using, and its working reasonably well!

Code

$IsNull(<Album Artist>,<Artist>,<Album Artist>)\$If(<Album Track Count><3,,$IsNull(<Year (yyyy)>,,<Year (yyyy)>)" - "<Album>)\$IsNull(<Disc-Track#>,," "<Disc-Track#>" ")<Title>

Hope this helps someone in the future!

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Screenshots / Re: Config/theme show off thread.

« on: February 20, 2020, 05:15:15 PM »

Eventhough I'm quite happy with it, I would love an even more aesthetic, outlandish skin. Think the looks of WINAMP, windows 95, etc. something nostalgic to the early digital age.

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Questions / Re: organise library: Syntax question

« on: September 03, 2019, 04:58:31 PM »

Thanks for the help so far! The reason I'm not using the first letter of an artist is because my library has an almost unhealthy amount of vaporwave. These artists often use japanese, korean, unicode or even emoji's as their artist names. Things might get pretty weird.

This is coming along really well! this is what I have so far, and gives the desired result for 80% of the music in my collection:

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 $If $IsNull(<Album Artist>,<Artist>,<Album Artist>)\$If(<Album Track Count><3,,$IsNull(<Year (yyyy)>,,<Year (yyyy)>) - <Album>)\$IsNull(<Disc-Track#>,, <Disc-Track#>" ")<Title>

the only thing I need to make an exception for is compilations. I've currently organised them the checkbox "itunes compilation". There are two ways to go here, one is to make an exception rule for if a file has the checkbox "itunes compilation" checked (I don't know the syntax for that command) a better way might be to filter for compilations in musicbee. i tried to mess around with the smart playlist function but I couldn't figure it out. The idea is to select all compilations, set the <album artist> field to "various artists" and be done with it

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Questions / organise library: Syntax question

« on: September 02, 2019, 04:35:32 PM »

I want to reduce clutter in my library so I'm rewriting the organisation formula. This is all new to me but thanks to the tutorial on the wiki its coming along nicely.
Tho there is 1 thing I can't seem to figure out. I've seen a user here that made musicbee count the number of tracks in an album, and if the number of tracks is lower than 3, no folder is created and the tracks are placed directly in the artist folder. This would make a lot of sense for my collection.
So how do I make this happen in Musicbee? my formula so far is:

Code

$If(<Album Artist>=<Artist>,<Album Artist>,<Artist>)\$IsNull(<Album>,,<Album>)\$IsNull(<Disc-Track#>,, <Disc-Track#>" ")<Title>

Thanks in advance!

Eis-T

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Questions / Re: auto-organise naming templates: what is convenient for filesharing?

« on: July 24, 2019, 04:36:29 PM »

Thanks! I'll see if I can think up a custom setting/formula with that tag! I've found a tutorial here on the forum that looks very helpful. still I wouldn't mind to copy/paste a formula from someone else that works well.


About filesharing: a reasonably large part of my collection is Vaporwave, a genre that of music where everything is basically given away for free on bandcamp and soundcloud so I don't feel too bad about sharing those particular works with fellow music lovers, as none of it was distributed within the music industry to begin with (and given the plunderphonic nature of most of the works, it would never be viable for commercial distribution anyways).

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Questions / Re: auto-organise naming templates: what is convenient for filesharing?

« on: July 18, 2019, 12:08:02 AM »

or to pose the question in a more neutral way: what syntax works well for you to keep the amount of folders to a minimum whilst maintaining a well-ordered, browsable collection?

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Questions / auto-organise naming templates: what is convenient for filesharing?

« on: July 15, 2019, 12:02:25 PM »

Hi everyone! I may or may not share a respectably large music collection on sl sk. I use the powerful auto-organize from musicbee to do this. This works really well (no manual dragging and dropping into folders required, just make sure the files are tagged correctly in mp3tag and then import into library.)
The downside is that with the current settings (<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Disc-Track#> <Title>) it becomes unwieldy to browse through for other people. there are for example plenty of folders with just one track in them. I already have most of my compilations now set to various artists so they don't scatter anymore but still: what syntax would be most convenient?

tl;dr: as a (hypothetical) user of a filesharing platform, what folder structure would make most sense to you? & how do I stop those single tracks from creating their own folders?

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Questions / Re: How to make musicbee move it's 5 Gb of pictures from C: drive?

« on: July 15, 2019, 11:46:49 AM »

Thanks for the answer! This was exactly what was needed to address the issue!

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Questions / How to make musicbee move it's 5 Gb of pictures from C: drive?

« on: June 27, 2019, 02:41:56 PM »

Hi, I'm cleaning up my C: drive and I've discovered that musicbee keeps a 5 Gb file in the /music folder on the C drive. I wanna move it to a folder on the D drive. this is what I've got so far:

- The folder has album covers in it, it is not the music itself (thats on D:/music.)
- I've changed the default folders for images  in musicbee to a new one on the D drive, but it doesn't change the files. I tried to restart musicbee but it won't transfer them manually.

question: can I just drag and drop the files to the new folder or will that mess up my library?
is there a function that I've overlooked to move these files?

thanks in advance!

Eis-T

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Questions / Re: +1 to playcount

« on: September 29, 2018, 09:03:30 PM »

thanks a lot! almost thought I screwed up but i simply had the wrong version of additional tagging tools installed. This works exactly like I had in mind!

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Questions / Re: +1 to playcount

« on: September 29, 2018, 01:27:27 PM »

thanks for the quick and incredibly specific, accurate reply! I did some searches on the forum but somehow missed that post. thanks!!

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Questions / +1 to playcount

« on: September 29, 2018, 01:02:30 PM »

short question: is there a convenient way to add 1 to playcount for selected tracks? the only trick in my book is to play the tracks, fastforward to near the end of the track, and then click to the end of the next track. another way would be to enter numbers manually for each track seperately. is there an alternative to these workarounds? assigning a hotkey for example to add one to the current playcount of a selection would be the perfect solution for me.