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When I was using MusicBee 3.4 I could use "Locate Playing Track At Source"  to go to the song I was playing. When that song was not part of my library and it was just something I dragged & dropped into the "Now Playing" window, it would take me to where that song was in the Now Playing window.

After updating to MusicBee 3.5.8698, when trying to locate files that are not part of the library, it no longer goes to where that file is in the Now Playing window.

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in the bottom "now playing panel" I used to be able to see the artist picture next to the biography. Now the picture doesn't show up anymore after I installed the latest version 3.3.7101.

The panel I'm referring to is the one you enable by going to "arrange panels" window and checking "now playing bar"

Here is a pic. I circled the area where the artist pic used to be at.


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MusicBee Wishlist / Keyboard shortcut to repeat one track
« on: May 18, 2016, 04:21:57 AM »
Currently its possible to set a keyboard shortcut to toggle between repeat off and repeat all but there is not shortcut to repeat one track. I use repeat one all the time so I think having a keyboard shortcut for that would be helpful. Maybe it would be one keyboard shortcut to toggle between the 3 repeat states? or maybe a separate keyboard shortcut for repeat one only?

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Questions / I made a customizable theme for the MusicBee Forum
« on: September 14, 2015, 08:15:17 AM »
Here's a theme I made for the MusicBee Forum. https://userstyles.org/styles/118765/dark-musicbee-forum
To use it you need either Firefox or Chrome. You can customize the theme, just select your preferred font colors before installing. I may add background colors customization later. Let me know what you think and if you encounter any issues with it.

P.S. Wasn't sure if this should go in the Customizations forum since it's not modifying MusicBee itself

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MusicBee Wishlist / Improved Column Browser
« on: May 16, 2015, 10:00:06 AM »
Here are a few improvement ideas for the column browser. I know some have been mentioned before.

1. Allow to have more than 6 columns at time.
2. Ability to resize the column width of each column.
3. Save the displayed columns and their column width to a custom view instead of applying it to all views.  
4. Option to filter both ways. That means that if I select a value on the 2nd column, it will filter the results in the 1st and 3rd columns. That way you don't have to rearrange the order of your columns when you want a column to filter the columns to its left.
5. Allow having multiple columns of the same field (like having two genre columns).

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I've managed to change the color of rating stars on the main panel, main player panel, and the tag editor window. However, I haven't found a way to change the color of the stars in the "Details" section of the "Now Playing" panel on the right sidebar.

So far I've tried:
Panel.StarRating.Default
Panel.StarRating.Highlight
Panel.StarRating.Lowlight
PlayerFlat.StarRating.Default
Controls.StarRating.Default

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UPDATE: Also check the workaround Zak posted below. I think it's better than mine.
Currently, it's not possible to add one genre to multiple genre categories so I came up with this workaround to have one genre show up in multiple genre categories. I am not too familiar yet with MB's tagging tools so for this workaround I used the freeware Mp3tag but if someone knows how to do the same using only MB, please post the instructions in this thread.

Steps:
1. Find all the files you wish to add to multiple genre categories and add them to Mp3tag (you can just drag and drop your folder containing all your music files).

2. Select all the files in Mp3tag (Ctrl + A) then go to "Convert > Tag to Tag". Select "GENRE"  as the field and in the format string type:
%genre%; %genre% 2; %genre% 3;

Press "OK", this will add additional genre tags to your file. For example, if the genre of a file was "Pop-Rock", the new genre will be "Pop-Rock; Pop-Rock 2; Pop-Rock 3". In MusicBee, only the first genre before a semicolon is displayed, so this won't make your genre column look ugly (it will still show in MB as "Pop-Rock").

3. Now go to your categories list in MB (Edit > Preferences > Tags (2) > Categorise > Genre Category)
There, you can use all 3 genres in your file to add the file to up to 3 different genre categories. For example, you can now add "Pop-Rock" to one category, "Pop-Rock 2" to another, and "Pop-Rock 3" to yet another category.

Downside:
Editing the genre tag with  Mp3tag is extremely fast and the extra genre tags didn't increment file size in my case (not even a single byte). The downside to this workaround is that other music software (like foobar2000) might display the additional genres in their genre column.

Optional:
You can change the string type in Mp3tag to be able to add the file to more than 3 genre categories (just continue the sequence  %genre%; %genre% 2; %genre% 3; %genre% 4; %genre% 5.
You can also edit what the additional genres look like by editing the string type format (if you don't want a space between the genre and the number, just delete the space from the format string. You can also replace the numbers with symbols or other letters). For files that already have multiple genres separated by semicolons you will need to follow different steps in Mp3tag (which I can post here if needed).

Let me know what you think of this workaround and if you have any suggestions!

Mp3tag download link:
http://www.mp3tag.de/en/download.html

P.S. I wonder if Steven could use this same concept in MB v3.0 to support adding a genre to multiple categories w/o needing to edit the metadata. Maybe when a file is added to MB, additional tags like the ones above are automatically created BUT only stored in MB and not embedded into the audio file. Then, in the categories list, add support to automatically append a number next to genres that already belong to another category (and maybe this appending could be invisible to the user for a seamless experience).

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MusicBee Wishlist / Add a genre to multiple genre categories
« on: April 23, 2015, 03:48:48 PM »
For example, let “Pop-Rock” belong to the “Pop” category and also to the “Rock” category. Or let “Lebanese Pop” be part of 3 categories: “Arabic”, “Lebanese”, and “Pop”.

Currently, if you try to add a genre to more than one category, MB gives you a message saying that the genre is mapped to multiple categories and won't let you save the categories list.

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I think I've found a bug but I'm not sure. The problem is that I can't sort M4A files in descending order (10, 9, 8, etc) using the column "Disc-Track#".

First I thought that it was a bug caused by my M4A's having a disc # but deleting the disc # didn't solve the problem. Then I though that maybe I needed to add leading zeroes to the track #s but I've just realized that M4A's do not support leading zeroes in their track #. Can anyone else reproduce this problem?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Easy Folder/File Moving
« on: April 20, 2015, 04:11:28 AM »
This are my suggestions to make the moving of folders more efficient:

Option A (might be easier to implement)
1. Ability to select multiple folders in Computer node
2. Add a "cut/paste" option to the right click context menu of selected folders (would love support for Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V). Currently, folders can only be moved by drag and drop in the computer node (which is very inefficient, especially if you have many folders and have to wait for the list to scroll up/down while you drag the folder).

Option B (might be harder to implement)
1. Add a tool that would essentially be a copy of Windows File Explorer/Apple Finder that allows you to manage music folders. When you rename/move/paste/ files using this "MusicBee File Explorer", the files don't show up as "missing" in MB and don't lose any of the data stored in the MB library (such as play count). Currently, if you rename/move files outside of MB, they show up as missing and when you relocate them, they lose their MB library data (play count, date added, etc).

Additional
When using "Right-click > Send to > Folder (move)" the window that pops lets you paste a folder path (instead of having to browse to it). Also, it would be good if you could not only move the audio files but the folders that they are in (show the "send to" option when right clicking albums and artist in MB).

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MusicBee Wishlist / Easy Missing File Relocation
« on: April 20, 2015, 03:51:45 AM »
This is my suggestion for easier relocation of missing files:

1. When trying to play a missing file, a pop up appears that lets you paste the new file location (e.g D:\Music\new location).

2. When a file is relocated, other missing files from the same album are automatically relocated (maybe a prompt would pop up saying "Relocate other files from the same album?")

3. When you right click a group of selected missing files there is an option to scan a specific folder or group of folders to find the missing files.

4. When files are relocated, data stored in the MB library (play count, date added, etc) is preserved. Currently, MB does not keep the play count and date added of a file when it's relocated.

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Questions / How to relocate a missing file without losing play count?
« on: April 19, 2015, 08:44:28 PM »
If I move a file using Windows Explorer it then shows as "missing" in MusicBee. However, after I relocate it, the play count resets to zero. Is there any way to relocate files without losing play count?

Also, how can I relocate multiple files at the same time? If I move a whole album for example, how can I select the whole album in MusicBee and set its new folder path? Normally, I have to click on every single audio file and relocate them one by one. Is there no way to scan the new location of the album folder and let MusicBee determine that this folder contains the missing files? When I do "File > Rescan" it just adds the files in the new location as duplicates instead of relocating the missing files.

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This example formula removes the first 3 characters and the last 4 characters of a file's Filename. That way "01 song.mp3" would appear as "song"
$Replace($Replace(*<Filename>*,$Left(*<Filename>,4),),$Right(<Filename>*,5),)

Just replace "<Filename>" with the tag you want and replace the numbers with  the amount of characters you want to trim + 1. So if you want to trim 4 characters from the beginning, the first number in the formula will be a 5 (4+1).

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Hello, I just started using MusicBee and I haven't been able to find a way to change the format in which dates (TDRC) are stored. I have my files' TDRC tag in the format YYYY-MM-DD, however, after editing the metadata with MusicBee, it changes the format to MM/DD/YY. I read in another thread that this happens because MusicBee is using the PC's date format. Is there any way to set how the date format is stored in MusicBee without having to change your PC's date format?

Also, is there any way to prevent MusicBee from creating TDAT and TYER tags every time I edit a file that does not contain them? I have MusicBee set to save tags as ID3v2.4 and I have unchecked the option to "also save ID3v1 tags" but it still creates them. I think it's good that MusicBee creates these ID3v2.3 tags to ensure compatibility but it would be great if there was a way to disable the creation of these two ID3v2.3 tags when I have selected to save tags as ID3v2.4 in MusicBee's settings.

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