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MusicBee Wishlist / Queuing edit tags as a task as well

« on: April 06, 2020, 06:40:05 AM »

Hi,


For new album/ compilations addition, while in the inbox, I regularly use the 3 features - Analyse Volume, Update lyrics and Edit Tags - in no specific order. The first two become background tasks and are queued sequentially but the 3rd gets executed immediately.

I think, this sometimes corrupts the media file or information is overwritten/ lost, when one of the queued task is underway and edit tag is executing in the foreground - trying to update the same file.

Could the edit tags also be queued up and errors queued up in the action center requested in another post. The user can then take corrective action later as needed.

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Bug Reports / Error while updating any tags & then saving

« on: April 06, 2020, 06:08:33 AM »

Hi,

Just updated year for an album in the media library and its giving this error while trying to save every single file. How can I avoid this?

Also this error, occurring for every file is popping up a dialogue box for each such error, requiring the user to click repeatedly. Can this also be queued up in action center kind of functionality, also requested in a wishlist post today.

The error is same as another post today, hence using the same link.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Virtual Device on network - unavailability error

« on: April 06, 2020, 04:36:38 AM »

Hi,

I am consciously posting this message in wishlist and not in bug section.

Please refer this error. I understand that MB is periodically checking for availability of the virtual device as the auto sync for the virtual device is enabled in it's settings. With this enabled and disconnection of the virtual device on a network location, this error crops up multiple times requiring as many clicks as there are these error messages.

Could we have sort of an action center, where these messages are accumulated for the user to act on when he gets to it? For now, I am trying disabling the auto sync. Thanks.

Thanks.

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Bug Reports / Device sync failure, error "copy failed - found invalid data while decoding"

« on: April 06, 2020, 04:25:15 AM »

Hi,

I have my music files repository (this is where the MusicBee moves files to when I choose "send to > Library" from Inbox) on a network location (1) AND I have a location on my Android media box shared over network (2) as a virtual device. On the MusicBee PC - where the Library itself is hosted, these two locations - (1) is mapped to N: and (2) is mapped to Q: .

Now, while sending albums/ tracks to these virtual device randomly produces this error a lot. The media files play fine though. Is there something wrong with my setup?

Please suggest a resolution.

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Bug Reports / Artwork removed successfully but artwork still embedded basis file size

« on: April 05, 2020, 05:22:54 AM »

Hi,

I inadvertently added very high resolution artwork on an album while editing the tags. Realized while the files were being updated (3 out of 12) and tried to stop it. Once it stopped, it gave an error that artwork corrupted ... this was for 3rd file, it's file size remained normal as if its without those high resolution artwork. So, I tried editing the tags and remove the artworks for first 2 files, successfully removed them and saved them.

However, this is where the issue starts - the 2 file's size suggests that those high res artwork are still embedded basis file size but MusicBee tag editor shows no artwork. See here  

I downloaded MP3tag v3.01, which is able to show the artwork and allowing to delete, though extremely slow.

Thanks

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MusicBee Wishlist / Lyrics support for Bollywood Music

« on: April 03, 2020, 06:35:52 AM »

Hi Steven/ Sr Members,

Currently, MusicBee supports the lyrics being pulled from 1:LyricWiki, 2:chartlyrics.com, 3:LoloLyrics (perhaps also searches in that order) and there is also Gracenote, which is disabled by default. However, none of them has lyrics of Bollywood (Indian Hindi Movies) music.

Thus, I was wondering if more search engines could be added to support this requirement. Please comment.

Thanks.

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Questions / Minimize instead of close

« on: March 08, 2016, 02:39:56 PM »

Hi

Is there anyway to configure MB to minimize instead of close (windows close control) AND the user in such a case can close the MB from the systray icon > Close Application? Actually, I close MB many times when I actually intended to just minimize and hide, which is already configured.

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Questions / Quick Track

« on: March 08, 2016, 02:35:11 PM »

Hi,

Under Systray Icon > Quick Track, "by Artist" and "by Album" ... both show filtered values from the Music Library only but "by Genre" shows values based on both Libray and Inbox. Feel that the same should also be from Library only.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Displaying equalizer preset selected via "auto-select by genre"

« on: March 05, 2016, 02:12:30 PM »

Hi,

Currently, the current preset active with "auto-select by genre" is not visible anywhere. Would love to see the same just under the equalizer icon in the main window and also in the equalizer pop-up window (and any other applicable place). This can continued to used for normal preset as well.

Also wrt "auto-select by genre", what happens if there is no equalizer preset matching the genre, does MB continue with previous song's setting or reverts to default/ flat values? I think default would make more sense with appropriate display ("default") under the equalizer icon.

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Tips and Tricks / Organizing Music - From Unorganized/ Inbox to Organized/ Library

« on: February 29, 2016, 02:38:29 AM »

I am new with MB, toyed with it for a week and decided to move to MB. Went through forums for guidance and learnt that inbox as a concept is new for many. I played with multiple libraries and virtual and MTP devices and also organizing my music files. Sharing the workflow that I finalized for the community here.

Pre-Workflow - MusicBee preferences:
- On startup check for updated/missing files
- Scan monitored folders on startup only
- Add to inbox
- Auto-organization is pre-configured but not enabled
- mark and send duplicates to the inbox

Finalized Workflow:
- OS: Add new files to a "watched" folder; *this will add files to inbox/ unorganized*
- Inbox: Fix the Artist name & Album name tags for the album/ compilation
- Inbox: For Albums - Auto-Tag by Album (Ctrl + Shift + L)
  OR Inbox: For Compilations - Auto-Tag by Track -> Identify Tracks & update (Ctrl + L)
- Inbox (for both): Auto-Tag by Track -> Missing Artwork
- Inbox (for both): Auto-Tag by Track -> Missing Lyrics
  [If lyrics not found, in Lyrics Tab - Search Google -> copy from browser -> Paste clipboard lyrics into Music File]
- Inbox (for both, *optional*): Convert as per choice (all default) > Archive/ delete originals after conversion
- Inbox (for album/ compilation):  Select the converted files;  File ->  Organize Files (Ctrl + R) (Personalize char mapping, if you must - I replaced space with underscore)
  (check "add converted to Library" and Move); *this will organize the music files and add them to the library*
- Library: Select Album/Compilation set: Analyse Volume (Ctrl + Shift + V).
- DONE!! You may keep updating metadata but avoid changing basic tags like artist, album - used for organizing files.

PS: I like a few also did not like the Media/ music files to be within the library folder and so made necessary changes. Its okay to do so :-). Now my folder structure is something like:
  _MusicBee
        _library
              resources (artist pictures, etc)
              collection (MusicBee database)
        _unorganized (watched folder/ for inbox)
        Music (for organized music)
        Playlists
        Podcasts

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Questions / Syncing playlist to MTP device

« on: February 27, 2016, 12:10:35 PM »

Hi,

Syncing default playlists (for now) from MusicBee to i9550 (with MIUI7 custom ROM) as MTP device. Tried all formats - m3u, m3u8, wpl and pla. While first 3 have playlist data, none are playable by any application though m3u and m3u8 are recognized as playlists. "pla" is empty with such sync and thus not useable. Bug?

Not sure on further course of action.

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Questions / Media - Inbox/unorganized to Library/organized

« on: February 26, 2016, 03:33:07 PM »

Hi,

Toying with MusicBee for more than a week and I love it. Shifting to MusicBee!!

Need help on this: What are the ideal steps to add music to library from inbox? I tried the following: fixing tags -> move to library (this did not move the media from inbox/ unorganized to organized automatically) -> move folder (organize) -> convert (this did not add to library the new converted files) -> manually moved converted to inbox -> removed original media from library -> added converted media to library.

I was thinking of trying: fixing tags -> convert in source folder -> be satisfied with conversion -> add converted to library. However, I thought it may be better to just ask.

<b>FYI, I have gone through</b> http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=9858.msg58829#msg58829. Even though a wizard may not be provided but is the wiki done?