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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Portable device preferred playlist format
« on: August 31, 2009, 08:26:27 PM »
Works great!  I wish I could get some consultants that work for my firm to turn things around this quickly.  Thanks!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Portable device preferred playlist format
« on: August 31, 2009, 04:04:49 PM »
Ok, seems to be working well, except for one issue.  The files and playlist all transferred fine and were all picked up by the mobile Windows Media Player just fine, however two of the files had special characters (an accented e and an ampersand) in either the path or filename.  The playlist played the remaining files fine, but gave errors on the two files with special characters.  When going to these files through the library (not via the playlist) the files played fine.  Below is the top portion of the ASX playlist that contains the two files (the 2nd and 4th entries):
Code
<asx version="3.0">
  <entry>
    <title>Feeling So Real</title>
    <author>Moby</author>
    <ref href="\storage card\My Music\Moby\Songs 1993-1998\09 - Feeling So Real.wma" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Breathe</title>
    <author>Télépopmusik</author>
    <ref href="\storage card\My Music\Télépopmusik\Genetic World\01 - Breathe.mp3" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Utopia</title>
    <author>Goldfrapp</author>
    <ref href="\storage card\My Music\Goldfrapp\Felt Mountain\1-08 - Utopia.mp3" />
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Beauties Can Die</title>
    <author>M83</author>
    <ref href="\storage card\My Music\M83\Dead Cities, Red Seas &amp; Lost Ghosts\1-12 - Beauties Can Die.m4a" />
  </entry>

Note that the "&" was converted to a "&amp;"  Any ideas on a remedy for this?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Portable device preferred playlist format
« on: August 18, 2009, 10:54:04 PM »
That sounds correct.  Thanks.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Portable device preferred playlist format
« on: August 18, 2009, 09:02:24 PM »
Ok, so I did some testing and it works as it should but it does not work in my situation.  Let me explain.  When I mount my Windows Mobile phone as a mass storage device, it mounts the root of the storage card as the mount point.  When the card is not mounted, the Windows Mobile operating system sees the mount point of the storage card as a folder called \storage card\.  So I created a playlist on the device and opened that playlist and one created/synced by Music Bee in notepad.  The paths in the MusicBee created playlist start with \My Music\ . . . , while the paths of device created playlist start with \Storage Card\My Music\ . . .  Technically this is correct since when the storage card is mounted as a mass storage device, the folder \storage card\ becomes the drive letter (in my case drive G:).

So, do you have a suggested solution to let MusicBee know what to resolve the drive letter to for the playlist?  In my case, I would imagine some setting in the device specific sync settings that a user can designate a root folder for (i.e. mounted drive G: = device \Storage Card\).  Thoughts?

Another request - would it be possible to add a setting to designated saved location of playlists on the device?  MusicBee defaults to creating a folder \playlists\ under the location specified as the root for syncing.  However, WMP mobile does not seem to detect the ASX file there.  When creating an ASX file on the device, WMP saves in a folder \playlist\ directly under the root folder of the storage card.

Also I don't know if this matters, but the device created ASX has this additional string:
<Param Name = "encoding" Value = "UTF-8" />

Thanks!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Visualizations, ActiveSync support, and more.
« on: August 11, 2009, 10:43:34 PM »
Thanks for the heads up.  I'm currently using the usb mass storage mode on the phone with a simultaneous bluetooth connection for activesync, so I'm working around it for now.  However it would be nice to completely wirelessly sync my phone when I walk up to my computer.

I'll be glad to do any testing for you.  I have Windows Mobile 6.1 phones in the Professional (touchscreen) and standard (non-touchscreen) editions to test out.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Portable device preferred playlist format
« on: August 11, 2009, 08:58:54 PM »
This is perhaps two requests in one.  I am using a Windows Mobile phone with the built in Windows Media Player 10 Mobile.  WMP Mobile does not support .m3u or .pls files.  I tried syncing a playlist with the Windows Mobile phone (mounted as a USB mass storage device) and it synced correctly (both the files and creating a .m3u playlist on the device).

So I guess I'm requesting that you add support for at least creating .asx playlists, and secondly the ability to designate a preferred playlist format for a device so that when synchronizing a playlist with that particular device, the playlist is created and saved in the correct format.

Thanks!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Visualizations, ActiveSync support, and more.
« on: August 11, 2009, 04:04:03 AM »
4 - i need to read up on the api for active sync to get a feeling for how hard it will be to do - currently i only support the MTP protocol (as well as iTunes and usb devices)

Steven, any progress or time spent on the activesync protocol?  This would be great to sync to a windows mobile device over bluetooth.  Perhaps not the fastest, but nice nonetheless.  Thanks for all the continued development!

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Just a suggestion so thank you for letting me know what all is involved with actually implementing such things.  I totatally agree with the no bloat basis of design, which is one of the reasons I've been looking to ditch Winamp.  Also I agree that MB should not become a Video Player - I was just thinking of utilizing the audio parts of video.

toology: Thanks for the recomendation of Avidemux - I'll check it out.

Steven: interesting to hear that bass has a video module - out of curiosity, I'll check it out on my own.

Thanks.

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Ok, so this request is driven by love of TEDtalks (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks) and perhaps a feature of Winamp that is not there by design.  I like to listen to TEDtalks on my commute.  TED used to have audio only versions of their talks, but now they only have video versions (in mp4).  They do still have an audio podcast feed but it is only updated every 3 months or so.  So, in Winamp I am able to use the podcast plugin to download the video podcasts and play them back just fine.  However, the good part (for me at least) is that if using the default Winamp mpeg decoder (which includes mp4 files) which is audio only - I hear only the audio portion and no video and this allows the winamp transcoder to see it as an audio file and transcode it to an mp3 when transfering the file to my phone for playback.  If I tell Winamp to use the DirectShow decoder for mp4 files, it plays back the video correctly in Winamp, but will not transcode to an mp3 because it now sees it as a video file.

So, my request for MusicBee, would be ideally that MusicBee to detect video container formats and extract out / demux the audio track inside the video container format.  In this case the mp4 format is used both for audio only and for video/audio content, but this might also include avi, matroska, ogm, etc.  I think it would be best if MusicBee could simply extract the track rather than transcoding the audio data and thus loosing quality and taking up more system resources.  I know that others have requested that MusicBee also become a video player.  I personally would like to see it stay an audio only player, and perhaps my above request stays in line with an audio only approach.  I assume this functionality is not supported by any of the bass libraries, so I will suggest something like mencoder / mplayer to do the dirty work in the background and any other demuxer helper tools (as a side note, would bass_enc be able to pass data to mencoder and thus be able to replace all other codecs, or does it not work quite like this?).

My second request for archive file (zip, 7z, rar, etc.) is partially because TED packages the downloadable mp4 files inside zip files and that would be one more step I would need to take to get things where I want them.  But I think archive support could also be helpful for other things as well.  Winamp has a third-party (by Dr. O) in_zip input plugin that I believe uses the unrar.dll and unacev2.dll libraries to help out.  Perhaps some of the 7-zip command line tools could help out with this.

I guess another request that goes along with this would be that MusicBee support video podcast feeds with the understanding that only the audio portions of the files will be played back / transfered to devices.

Thanks.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Hotkeys - Allow use of Winkey
« on: March 25, 2009, 02:57:24 PM »
Just using winamp as an example, WinKey can be used as part of a global hotkey, but I am not sure how they accomplished this.  I guess I just got used to using Alt + Winkey for music player hotkeys, but I can change.  I am sort of a hotkey junky and use most all system hotkeys and have a sort of self made logic that Ctrl + Alt are hotkeys for launching programs, Alt + Winkey is for media player hotkeys, and Shift + Ctrl or is used by default by too many programs and Winkey only is used by the system that I did not assign anything global to use these modifier keys.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Now playing option: Find in Library . . .
« on: March 25, 2009, 02:39:06 PM »
While I'm talking about additional tabs, it might be nice to have a new tab button just to the right of the bookmark button at the top of the content pane.  I keep forgetting about using tabs and they could be quite useful so that I don't loose settings in such things as the Auto-DJ, etc.

Another thought about opening new tabs . . . use middle-clicking to open new tabs and close existing tabs.  For example, middle clicking on any of the items in the left navigator pane would open that item in a new tab.  Middle-clicking the title of an existing tab would also close the tab.  This is standard behavior of Firefox, Google Chrome, and IE.

Also, a bug I noticed when closing tabs - if I have 3 tabs open and close the middle tab, a blank space the size of the middle tab remains between the remaining two tabs.  If I close the last tab, and then later open another tab, the space between the two tabs still remains until the program is restarted.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Hotkeys - Allow use of Winkey
« on: March 25, 2009, 02:32:45 PM »
I just gave it a try, and noticed that the use of WinKey is not allowed in global hotkeys.  Is there a reason for this?  If this is not already done, is there a way that MusicBee can check for other system or global program hotkeys before setting a hotkey so that the most possible key combinations can be used for global hotkeys but at the same time, not interfering with other global / system hotkeys?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Now playing option: Find in Library . . .
« on: March 23, 2009, 05:49:28 PM »
It might be nice to have an option when right clicking on an entry in the now playing list that would be "Find in Library . . ." that could have flyout options of track, artist, album, genre, etc.  I suppose this could also be an option under the "file" menu of the now playing list.  The way Winamp handles this (via a third party plugin) is by automatically filling in the query box with the respective tag of the file right clicked to find in the library.  I imagine for radio streams or podcasts, it might take you to the either the saved radio stream in the radio library or the particular podcast in the podcast library.  For last.fm streams, I guess a message could indicate it's not in the library, or it could open a browser tab in the content pane with the last.fm page for the track, artist, album, genre, etc. (whichever is selected).

While I'm talking about additional tabs, it might be nice to have a new tab button just to the right of the bookmark button at the top of the content pane.  I keep forgetting about using tabs and they could be quite useful so that I don't loose settings in such things as the Auto-DJ, etc.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Path column and/or sort by path
« on: March 23, 2009, 05:27:08 PM »
It would be nice to sort by path or path with filename.  This is especially handy for tagging / editing files that might be correctly placed but without tag information or for sorting out duplicate tracks.  I guess this could be implemented as column, which would be the most consistent and logical or as an option under the tools menu in the content pane.

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