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Plugins / Re: MusicBee Remote (Remote Control for Android)

« on: June 08, 2022, 05:10:32 PM »

New user of musicbee from using mediamonkey. All artwork visible in musicbee and is embedded in files.
However on remote library album view no album art is visible.
However in "now playing" the album art for the track is visible.
Any help welcome, many thanks

Hey MalvGuy,

This is a bug and I am not sure of the cause at the moment. It seems that there is a state issue because according to users it works if you clear the data, but it happens again after a while. I have something in mind that I would like to try. Hopefully, depending on the available time I will start working on a fix soon. Would you be available to give it a try? If so please reach out to me via e-mail.

Hi MalvGuy/Kelsos,

Caching of Album Arts is happening under two conditions.
1. When we start Musicbee
2. When we Invalidate the covers.

When new albums are added to Musicbee,  and sync using Remote, album arts are not shown in Remote.  This can be solved by restarting MusicBee in your system and syncing from Remote.

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Plugins / Re: MusicBee Remote (Remote Control for Android)

« on: July 23, 2021, 05:19:22 PM »

Hi Kelsos,  MB Remote is working great with 1.4.1 plugin.   Showing Lyrics  is also great.  Along with lyrics, if  Lyricst and Composer fields are shown either in Lyrics page or Now Playing Page, it will be great.
Thanks

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Plugins / Re: MusicBee Remote (Remote Control for Android)

« on: June 11, 2021, 06:42:48 AM »

Hi Kelsos,

Please include "Get Albums" along with "Get Artists", in Genres Menu.

Genres Menu Snapshot

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Plugins / Re: MusicBee Remote (Remote Control for Android)

« on: May 25, 2021, 12:09:22 PM »

1) Android MB Remote requires internet for connecting with MB.  Even though internet is not available in wifi router, it should work.
2) MB Remote PlayLists - Need Search button
3) MB Remote PlayLists - Need an option to see list of tracks in Playlist (like how we do it for album)
4) MB Remote PlayLists - Need an option for Queuing playlist.
5) Grouping of album is required in MB Remote - using same settings as in MB.
6) Artist split done in MB is not reflected in MB Remote.

Hey Mahesh, could you write a few more details on what you mean by each of them, I am not really sure what 1) is about for example.

Did you try the remote on a network without internet connection and it didn't work for you? I cannot see why? The Android INTERNET permission is the one to perform any network connectivity, there is no distinction between local or remote networks, it covers all.

2 and 3 are planned, I have them in mind, 4 though should work by clicking on a playlist.
5) I am not using MB much these days so any chance you could provide an example?
6) same as 5 an example would be really welcome

Hi Kelsos, Thanks for the reply.

1)  MB Remote depends on internet.  Generally all andriod apps which works on wifi, does not require internet.  If internet goes down for few minutes,  MB remote becomes offline. (even though wifi is connected).
5)  First, We need to understand how grouping of album works in MB. I will explain this in a different post..
6)  If artist field is "Artist1; Artist2" for any track.
MB shows it as two different artistes.
    Artist1
    Artist2
But MB Remote shows it as one artist.
    Artist1; Artist2
7) Also observed one more issue.  Synced Album Arts are vanished after few hours.  When I opened MB remote, very next day after syncing,  all Album Arts are vanished. Now sure why this is happening.  Once it happens, album arts are not syncing again.   I can sync album arts only after uninstalling and installing MB remote.

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Plugins / MB Remote Wishlist

« on: May 14, 2021, 08:05:46 PM »

1) Android MB Remote requires internet for connecting with MB.  Even though internet is not available in wifi router, it should work.
2) MB Remote PlayLists - Need Search button
3) MB Remote PlayLists - Need an option to see list of tracks in Playlist (like how we do it for album)
4) MB Remote PlayLists - Need an option for Queuing playlist.
5) Grouping of album is required in MB Remote - using same settings as in MB.
6) Artist split done in MB is not reflected in MB Remote.