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General Discussions / "Suggested Genres" on multiple files, automaticaly

« on: June 12, 2021, 09:51:44 PM »

Hello everyone,

as far as I understood it right, Musicbee gets the "suggested genres" from Spotify, right?

It was removed because last.fm made changes to its API terms.
However, it can now be sourced from Spotify and i have put it back in:

https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee33_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee files

Now I'm wondering if there is a way to select multiple new tracks and write the respective "suggested genres" as a genre tags for all of them.

i am a big fan of the website everynoise.com, which as far as i know gets its genres from the spotify-api too. i consult the website when i am unsure what genre a track might have.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Playlist-Cover View

« on: March 29, 2021, 01:33:28 AM »

Hello,

what would you think of a custom view that is more playlist oriented instead of album oriented?




Would love to browse through my Playlists with custom Playlist-Covers!

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General Discussions / New approach.

« on: May 13, 2020, 10:23:23 AM »

Hi guys, my name is Alex and I've been using MusicBee for a few years now and I love all the ways I can optimize my music database.
Unfortunately, all these little settings start to get a little overwhelming at some point. On days like this as a graphic designer I miss simpler times and a simpler UI design. I then miss iTunes, which is more visually appealing to me. Even if it cuts down the range of settings significantly.

Yes, we can customize the look of MusicBee using skins - even with limitations. Because to achieve this light and slim design, we'd have to get rid of all the frames that make MB look kind off "blocky" and hard.
So would it even be possible to achieve this kind of lightweight UI design in MB, or is MusicBees' freedom to customize linked to that degree of "stiffness"?

I have some examples of the "lightweight UI design" I was talking about.
You'll find that these UI designers show very nice approaches to what a modern MusicPlayer could look like:

Apple iTunes Redesign Using Google Material
from UIUX Lab






iTunes MaOS — Reimagined 2019
from Kacper Rawluk






Apple OS Future UI Kit - Music Edition
from Aurélien SALOMON








So let me hear what you think about it.
Is it even worth all the effort? Or do you think such a design is beyond MusicBees' capabilities?
I look forward to your ideas and feedback.


Cheers

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Questions / Second Rating in Main-Panel

« on: November 25, 2019, 10:25:47 AM »

I made a secondary rating via embedded custom-tags (called "Intensity").







Why cant i edit the custom rating from the main-panel like the regular rating
and have to go for the "edit" Window?





thx!

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Questions / Queueing Upcoming Tracks dont work

« on: March 15, 2019, 12:16:25 AM »

Hi Guys,

My Current Settings are:

• if Playback is stopped:     Play Now
• when tracks are playing:  Queue Next
• Play Now action:             clear list and play all tracks

When im Playing a Track and browse through my Library and queue some Tracks with doubleclick,
MB doesnst play them one after another. it skipps all the tracks i queued and just plays the last one i queued.
That sucks.

Is it possible to fix that somehow?

thx

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MusicBee Wishlist / Virtual Tags for Key & BPM Difference

« on: November 10, 2018, 08:19:35 AM »

Virtual Tags with BPM and KEY-Difference to the current playing Track, like in VirtualDJ.
I tried to work around, but i cant create virtual Tags based on the current Playing Track.
Would be nice to do so.

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Questions / Add custom ratingbars and change icons

« on: November 07, 2017, 06:16:03 PM »

Hey Guys,

im just about getting starting warmup with MusicBee.
I love to organice my music and create smart playlists for different
moods and occasions.

I would like to create custom ratingbars for "happiness", "energy" and "danceabilty".
I managed to create the custom tag-fields and set them already to "rating"
but i cant realy select the rating like the usual star-rating. when im try to edit the values
for "energy", i can only enter a digit like 4. then 4 star will be shown.
and i want to have different icons for my different rating bars
(Lightning for "energy", smiley for "happiness", an partyhat or a discoball for "danceability").
i cant create the icons/symbols by myself, but is my wish even possible?


thanks for your help