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Questions / Database can't be modified if playback started directly from file(s)

« on: March 14, 2021, 01:22:29 PM »

Hello again!

I have had some issues with MusicBee not being able to save new artist pictures, etc. to the files. I solved them by always running it as an admin. It works well if I start playback from within musicbee. Any new artist files, covers, etc get downloaded and saved properly to each music file. However, if I start playback from my music folder, MusicBee is unable to modify the library again.

I'm using the portable version of it and I'm wondering if there's a workaround for this? I'm the admin of the PC.

Thank you!

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Questions / Re-fetch album and artist pictures/covers

« on: February 25, 2021, 09:40:39 PM »

Hey everyone! I love musicbee, but throughout the years I never learned how to organize my settings in a way that wouldn't give me trouble when changing machines. I have a new PC and now my media is all messed up...

I want to start fresh. Delete ALL media I have, both from artists and albums and have MusicBee search the internet and repopulate it all. I want to embed them into the music file itself. What is the easiest way to do this?

I've always had issues because my music was gathered throughout the years and files were/are with the wrong metadata as well... you can see some albums/artists don't have a picture at all, others have the same one, the same wrong one. It's strange and I want to start fresh.

Thank you!

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Questions / Need help reacquiring album art and removing duplicates

« on: October 07, 2018, 12:35:16 AM »

First off, I'd like to say I did try reading other posts and the wiki, but I'm such an amateur regarding music managers, tagging, etc, that I just get really confused with all the options in MusicBee and always end up doing the wrong thing, as you will see.



There's my current layout. As you can see my library is very poorly tagged and I've managed to get most (maybe all?) of my untagged albums (or artist) artwork to be set to the same picture! I mostly have one or two song from an artist and usually they're not from the same album. I don't really care about the "right" cover for each song or anything, I would just like to have all songs from the same artist under the artist's name and perhaps one album cover to contain all songs. Is that possible?

TL;DR

I would like to know how I can have MusicBee help me:
- Update all Artists artwork
- Update all Covers artwork
- Group all songs from one artist into one "generic" album

I tried fiddling with the settings but I still don't know what I'm doing. As you can see it seems all artists that didn't have an album artwork received the same cover. It seems MusicBee did a good job updating most artist artwork, but I'm having most issues with the album/covers. For example the band Cheiro de Amor has an artist picture in the left colum that is correct. However, in the top right "Playing Tracks" the wrong cover is shown. And in the bottom right yet a different cover is shown, so I really don't know what is happening.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you
Henry

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Questions / Playlists menu location & album display issue

« on: January 05, 2016, 05:19:53 AM »

Hey guys,

I just downloaded MB for the first time and I am loving it. However, even after tweaking as much as I could with it, I still have two issues with the layout. My design choice is almost identical to this one: http://imgur.com/JPxozH5. My current layout is looking like this: http://imgur.com/umULdsu.

The first problem I have is the physical location of the playlists. I would like to know if I can have the playlists in any place other than the left panel. Ideally, I would like to remove the left panel altogether, just like in the example. However I would like to have my playlists visible somewhere else in the main screen, just the playlists. Is there any way I can achieve this? It seems to be possible to have the playlists as a tab, right? Could this be a floating tab by any chance? In truth, I'd like to have it on the right panel either above or under the artwork.

My second issue is with the display of the albums in the center panel. In the example I showed, the name of the artist comes above the artwork and in bigger letters. Plus there is a thin line just underneath the name of the artist and above the artwork. How can I achieve that? Is this some sort of mod?

I'd really appreciate some guidance on this, I am getting rather frustrated for usually I am quite tech savvy.

Thank you for the help