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Questions / Re: Any way to automate (Send To -> Audiobooks) based on tags or something else?

« on: July 31, 2023, 06:23:31 AM »

if monitoring is configured to send files to the library then the following will trigger MB to send to audiobooks:
.m4b files
.mp3 when TXXX/ITUNESMEDIATYPE = audiobook
.m4a when stik = 2

Thanks these worked great!

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Questions / Any way to automate (Send To -> Audiobooks) based on tags or something else?

« on: July 30, 2023, 04:13:57 AM »

I prefer to have auto-organize off as I like to edit tags manually and sort things in folders myself, windows-side.

I have my "C:\Users\User\Music" folder set to be monitored, and all I do is curate the folder and files within, then drop it in the 'Music' folder and it gets added to the UI automatically, which works great. I use the Album Artists + Album and Tracks layout.

But for audiobooks, even if I set a second monitored folder such as "C:\Users\User\Documents\Audiobooks", it shows up in the music library and I have to manually send it to the Audiobooks tab. This is a problem because if I add many audiobooks at once, I have to hunt them down through my music library to send them over, which is very tedious.

I've tried keeping everything in my music library with all my audiobooks kept under the "Audiobooks" album artist tag, but then if I have one very prolific author who has like 30 audiobooks, then I have to tag each one as a unique album which floods the UI with that author.

Failing all else, is there a dedicated folder somewhere that will automatically add all audio files contained within to the Audiobooks tab? Can I create it? Any other ideas?

Thanks!

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Plugins / Re: Windows 10 Media Control Overlay

« on: February 13, 2023, 02:50:41 PM »

Using 3.4.8033.

If you're not using the Store version, try using the latest 3.5 from the first forum topic. If you're on the Store version there's nothing you can do until a new Store version is released.

I've updated to 3.5 and it hasn't changed anything. But I believe I've fixed the problem for myself.

I forgot to mention that because my laptop doesn't have dedicated media control buttons, I use an AutoHotkey script to rebind Ctrl+Shift+Left to Media_Prev, Ctrl+Shift+Right to Media_Right, and Ctrl+Shift+/ to Media_Play_Pause. I believe these AHK hotkeys send simulated media control presses, but aren't real buttons so alexdo's fix wasn't actually necessary for me. I only thought I needed it because I gave myself the double register bug by having the MusicBee multimedia global hotkeys set to the virtual media control buttons because I must have had the script running when I set them. This caused both MusicBee and Autohotkey to send media control commands simultaneously, instead of MusicBee + keyboard button conflicts other people were having.

I fixed it by changing the MusicBee multimedia global hotkeys to Ctrl+Shift+Left, Right, etc. while the AHK script was disabled. And now after reenabling it everything seems to be working fine including the overlay using the original version of the plugin. Only minor gripe is that as others have reported, audio needs to be played directly through the MusicBee window once after it starts up before the hotkeys begin to register. I noticed the Spotify app doesn't have that problem so I imagine there's a potential fix but who knows? Media Controls do conflict with other media players like Spotify, but that's not a problem for me because I've never needed to have both open at the same time.

Cheers!

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Plugins / Re: Windows 10 Media Control Overlay

« on: January 31, 2023, 09:42:50 AM »

The whole problem is because of the media control "feature" that if you press a keyboard media key, the media control also simulates a click on its buttons. And the plugin defines the appropriate action for the buttons. So everything is executed two times - one from media control buttons callback and one from music bee global hotkey.

So here is a fixed plugin for everyone who wants to have working media control buttons and working global hotkeys:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7fdiewd2r3df62i/mb_MediaControl.zip/file

The fix uses a keyboard key press hook that watches for keyboard media key presses and saves the time of the last press. And if last press is less than 1500 milliseconds ago the media control button press is ignored.

For everyone who doesn't trust me, here is the source to see what is done and compile it yourself:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hfrflurmkonsv8f/MediaControlSource.zip/file

I have the bug where the base plugin plays tracks over each other, but this version of the plugin just completely disables media controls for me. Using 3.4.8033.

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Questions / How to disable rename track on delayed double click?

« on: August 09, 2022, 11:58:01 AM »

I accidentally do this a lot, it's annoying, can I disable it?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Adjustable Mouse Wheel Scroll Speed

« on: November 12, 2020, 07:37:43 AM »

Using 3.4.7586, I have noticed an improvement in most panels by selecting slower scrolling in the settings, but I also still think it's very fast. Usable, but just barely. Some panels like "album covers" seem to be unchanged and are still pretty much unusably fast on my touchpad.

Thanks for the great software though!

for the next v3.4 update i have slowed the mouse wheel (when the option is enabled) some more. Also I realise now it wasnt implemented for the album covers view so thats done for the next update.
What other places did you notice its still too fast?

Neat thanks! I just checked now and the only other place it seems too fast is the artists view (middle panel).

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Adjustable Mouse Wheel Scroll Speed

« on: October 29, 2020, 08:36:50 PM »

Using 3.4.7586, I have noticed an improvement in most panels by selecting slower scrolling in the settings, but I also still think it's very fast. Usable, but just barely. Some panels like "album covers" seem to be unchanged and are still pretty much unusably fast on my touchpad.

Thanks for the great software though!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Any way to switch to "repeat one" and back with hotkeys?

« on: July 30, 2020, 03:08:22 AM »

The (toggle: repeat one) hotkey skips repeat one. Is this intended or a bug? Makes the hotkey kinda useless, is there a way around this? Thanks.