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Questions / All Music Disappeared
« on: October 27, 2018, 09:17:05 AM »
As of this morning, with nothing having changed since it was working last night, MusicBee appears not to be seeing the music in my music folder. I have everything (close to 1 TB) in H:\Media\Music .The files appear in Explorer and play in VLC. But MusicBee doesn't see them. It claims that the Library is empty.

I'm running 3.2.6827 under Windows 10.

Any clues?

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Questions / Junk appearing in folders
« on: August 21, 2018, 04:03:36 PM »
I'm finding a lot of junk files in my MusicBee folders. Many of the folders contain files that I converted from FLAC to MP3 with the "Convert Format" tool, but not, I think, all of them.

Here's a listing (via Window's Ubuntu bash shell) of what's in the folder for one album. The items beginning with "d" are folders. From what I can tell, only the mp3 files and the cover.jpg should be there.  Any clues?

Code
total 62000
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt 15717826 Aug 19 10:36 01 Floating (Demo).mp3
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt 15282104 Aug 19 10:36 02 Falling (Demo).mp3
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt 19356161 Aug 19 10:36 03 The World Spins (Demo).mp3
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt      728 Aug 20 10:20 {0B7805CB-6A72-4BC1-B05F-8B9EDA9A2F2C}.png
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt     5796 Aug 19 01:07 {A77B42B9-7B5D-4C0D-8B7F-05938C31806E}.png
drwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt      512 Aug 20 10:43 {AC76BA86-1033-FFFF-7760-0C0F074E4100}
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt    46249 Aug 20 10:24 AdobeARM.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt      193 Aug 17 08:57 AdobeARM_NotLocked.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt    86178 Aug 20 02:00 adobegc.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 05:19 aria-debug-10176.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 04:47 aria-debug-11656.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 04:50 aria-debug-12540.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 04:48 aria-debug-12780.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 21:18 aria-debug-13808.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 04:58 aria-debug-13920.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 17 04:48 aria-debug-17108.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 17 10:13 aria-debug-18204.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 15 07:57 aria-debug-24016.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 15 03:47 aria-debug-24336.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 18 10:13 aria-debug-24564.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 18 04:49 aria-debug-24756.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 18 17:23 aria-debug-26792.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 14 10:38 aria-debug-28236.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 14 03:47 aria-debug-29140.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 19 04:49 aria-debug-29772.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 20 02:56 aria-debug-32536.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 19 13:45 aria-debug-34040.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 15 05:50 aria-debug-36360.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 20 04:49 aria-debug-36992.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 03:47 aria-debug-39488.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt     9003 Aug 16 04:54 au-descriptor-1.8.0_181-b13.xml
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   426473 Aug 19 10:33 Cover.jpg
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   105844 Aug 16 04:54 dat8AE1.tmp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   106380 Aug 16 04:54 dat9CC4.tmp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   105776 Aug 16 04:54 dat9CE5.tmp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   143804 Aug 16 04:54 dat9D34.tmp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   144168 Aug 16 04:54 dat9D54.tmp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   143016 Aug 16 04:54 dat9D65.tmp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt    49152 Aug 16 04:50 ~DF51FB6B7A703DAD24.TMP
drwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt      512 Aug 20 10:43 {FC836C89-629E-4244-8348-D91E00DC40C2}
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt      944 Aug 18 14:29 foo_dr.txt
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt    18256 Aug 16 04:54 jusched.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 04:48 LuUpdater.log
drwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt      512 Aug 20 10:43 Magick.NET.net40.7.4.0.0
drwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt      512 Aug 20 10:43 _MEI120882
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt  4194304 Aug 19 10:36 MusicBee_000001.tmp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt     1808 Aug 19 10:35 MusicBee_000002.tmp
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt        0 Aug 16 04:49 qtsingleapp-FFDCAB-be4b-1-lockfile
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt  1619837 Aug 20 09:49 StructuredQuery.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   238950 Aug 16 04:55 tmp14148aaaaaa
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt  2275753 Aug 14 06:03 tmp-26u.xpi
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt   579349 Aug 17 06:04 tmp-h0l.xpi
-rwxrwxrwx 1 jzitt jzitt  2774280 Aug 15 06:03 tmp-ojp.xpi

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Questions / Playing only the track that I select
« on: March 24, 2018, 10:30:31 AM »
When I double-click a track to play it, MusicBee adds not only that track but every track after it on the album to the "Playing Tracks" list. I almost never want that. Is there a way to change this behavior?

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Questions / File not found at expected location
« on: January 20, 2018, 12:37:30 PM »
I recently moved my music collection to another drive and used "Remap Music Folders" to tell MusicBee about it. The music plays properly. When I try to edit a track, however, after I press OK, I'm told "File not found at expected location" followed by the file name. The "Modified Date" field shows that the track updated, but it doesn't reflect the changes that I made. I've confirmed that the files are at the location that the edit window's Properties > Location" expects to find them.

Any clues?

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Questions / Album with different disc names?
« on: January 03, 2018, 03:36:29 PM »
Is there a good way to label a single album which has different names for individual discs? I'm trying to tag the album "Grayfolded" by the Grateful Dead and John Oswald. Although it has, I believe, always been packaged as a two-CD set, the discs have distinct names, "Transitive Axis" and "Mirror Ashes". I've also seen this for some other albums, such as the discs in recent King Crimson box sets, which have unique titles for the individual discs within the album. How do people handle this?

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Questions / Rearrange filesystem by Sort Album Artist?
« on: November 23, 2017, 02:29:30 AM »
This might be an extraordinarily hazardous idea... but is there a way to have MusicBee reorganize my drive by Sort Album Artist (or by Sort Artist if an album doesn't have an Album Artist)? Right now, everything is alphabetized by the first names of Album Artists, which is maddening.

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Questions / Setting date display to YYYY-MM-DD
« on: October 20, 2017, 07:10:22 PM »
How can I set the Date Added and Date Modified fields, etc, to appear as YYYY-MM-DD? I could have sworn that I had once seen an answer to this, but am not finding it now.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Option for Name Swapping in Sort Editor
« on: September 17, 2017, 02:32:05 AM »
More than ninety percent of the time, I have to manually change the edit values for artists in the "Edit Custom Sort Values" to
- the string after the last space
- a comma and a space
- the string from the start up to (but not including) the last space.

Is it possible to be able to set that as a default or to put in a small button (akin to the + and - buttons on each line) to do this?

I've had to do it by hand several hundred times, so I'm hoping that it could be automated.

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Questions / Exporting folder.jpg
« on: August 24, 2017, 08:58:33 PM »
Is there a way to run through my collection as a batch job and export folder.jpg files for albums? Other software that I use on the same library requires it, and the folders don't consistently have it. I have close to eight thousand albums, so doing it disc-by-disc by hand doesn't seem effective.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Optional Tag Replacement
« on: August 09, 2017, 06:06:44 AM »
When I do "Auto Tag by Track" > "Identify Track and Update Tags", and use the digital signature, MusicBee automatically rewrites the tags with what it finds. Sometimes this is better than what I had. Sometimes it's worse. Occasionally, it's completely wrong. I would like to be shown what it found and asked if I want to replace what I have, with an option to decline.

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Questions / Needing Title Sorting to Ignore "The"
« on: July 27, 2017, 04:03:28 AM »
How can I get the default display to ignore "The" and "A" in sorting by album titles within the album artists?  I have checked "ignore words: The when sorting by Album, Artist, or Title" but it appears to have no effect. What have I missed?

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Questions / Exporting Sort Values from the Database to ID3 Tags?
« on: July 26, 2017, 07:05:49 AM »
As I understand it, the current Sort values for Artists or Album Artists are only saved to the database. Is there a way to save that value into the corresponding ID3 tag, so that when I use the MP3 elsewhere, other programs will recognize it? I use MusicBee to tag and organize my library, but sync it to computers running other software, since they don't run Windows.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Numbering/Timestamping of Patched versions
« on: July 06, 2017, 02:56:35 AM »
Quite often, I see that the answer to an issue is to download the latest Patched version of 3.1. The problem is that the name of the Patched version zip file is always the same. If I've installed a patch recently, it's hard to tell if the one being referenced is newer or older than what I already have.

Could the Zip files for the new patches be named either sequentially or with a timestamp (such as MusicBee_3.1_Patched_201707052156) to make clear which is newer?

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Questions / Sorting
« on: June 03, 2017, 10:16:08 PM »
I'm a bit confused by some sorting issues and how they're handled in the interface.

My goal is to set the Sort Album Artist for everything, then actually rearrange my filesystem by that. (I mirror the same drive to other computers not running Windows, but organize my files with MusicBee since nothing I've seen can compare to it -- in fact, it's close to the sole reason I'm still running Windows on anything.) I haven't done this, yet, though, since I want to make sure I have everything right before I do a massive reorganization.

Do I understand correctly that if I set an Album Artist Sort for an Artist for one album, it will replicate for the same Album Artist for other albums? And how should I handle collaborations by multiple artists? What's the canonical way to set the Album Artist and Sort Album Artistt for an album by, say (to choose one which happens to be on my screen right now), the quartet of Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Hendriksen, Elvind Aarset and Jan Bang?

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Questions / Album continually re-adding?
« on: April 20, 2017, 07:41:09 PM »
Every time that I restart MusicBee and rescan the library, one of my albums shows up as newly added, even though it's been there for a while. I had seen this problem on occasion for artists or albums with accented vowels in their names, but it doesn't seem to be the case here.

This is the album:
https://www.discogs.com/Daniel-Bjarnason-Processions/release/2001114

Any ideas why this is happening?

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