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MusicBee Wishlist / Option to resample all audio to 44.1khz

« on: June 15, 2020, 03:27:43 AM »

Yes I know, this sounds stupid, but let me explain.

I use ASIO to enjoy music in the background while I record whatever it is that I do on my computer. This way, the system audio I'm recording is not intruded by any music. I also just use ASIO in general with my computer, since my audio interface that I run all of my audio through works best with it. The problem is that any immediate change in sample rate completely wrecks my audio on the computer and all the programs that I'm running.

First I get this error

Then I hear a click and the music stops playing. All of my system audio is extremely distorted and the pitch of everything changes to compensate the difference in sample rate (if I'm in a call and a 96khz audio file starts playing, everyone's voices go really high pitched and my voice goes super low pitched on their end). The only way to fix this glitch when it happens is to close out of musicbee, reopen it, click a 44.1khz song, see the same "Unable to start playback" error again, reboot musicbee again, and play a 44.1khz file again. Then and only then will the audio fix itself. It happens regularly when I accidentally play a higher sample rate song through ASIO.

This is definitely not MusicBee's fault, but there is sort of a way to currently fix the issue with MusicBee.

In the options I'm able to resample my audio to 48KHz, 96KHz, or 192KHz, but absent is a 44.1KHz option.


I assume it's because most people would find it pointless to resample higher rate music down to 44.1KHz, but the functionality is already available in the software.


Reading an old forum post here from 2014, I found that enabling crossfade will force the software into 44.1KHz mode, because it needs a consistent sample rate to be able to fade between tracks. I enabled it and tried to set the crossfade as low as possible which is 0.1 seconds. It seems to work fine for the most part, but songs that were already intended to transition seamlessly now have short surges in volume because, well, they're being crossfaded.



Maybe there is a better way around this highly specific issue I'm having, but I think it would be worth having as an option if it's kind of already there. Thanks for your consideration!

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Questions / Every album is in the correct order except one artist?

« on: May 02, 2019, 04:43:55 AM »

I can't seem to figure this one out. I've always sorted my music as the following:
Album Artist > Year (Descending) > Album

I noticed today that every artist has the correct order on the albums, except Panic! at the Disco, which has a seemingly random order? My bonus tracks that are labeled disc 2 are also separated for some reason. I've checked over everything and retagged it all with both MusicBee and mp3tag with no luck. I recently updated the other day for the first time in months, but didn't notice this at that point. I know I can define custom sorting for specific artists, but I don't know if that's exactly a proper fix here.

Here's an example of CORRECT sorting


Here's a long string that shows the order of all my Panic albums. I cannot figure out what may be causing this.






Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Less compressed artwork previews as an option

« on: September 05, 2018, 05:00:07 AM »

One thing (pretty much the only thing) that's been bothering me with music bee as of lately is how the album artwork is compressed so badly in it's small preview window. It's not as bad as Windows Media Player was, but this is one of the main reasons why I moved to Music Bee. The compression artifacts of the album artwork is super noticeable, especially at the size I enjoy mine to be. I know that the compression/resolution will change within a range of resolution.

This is bigger than I usually have it, but it's made bigger so it's easier to tell.



When I drag the artwork to be one pixel larger, it will bump up to the next step in resolution.

 Where I usually have it is nowhere near it's next step, and suffers from bad compression artifacts. I know it's a funny thing to complain about, but it's just one of those small things that bothers me at times, especially because I spend a while making sure I always get the best quality album artwork.
Albums with a lot of RED color suffer the worst from this.
Here's an album by Fugazi, with the artwork size right where I like it most, but as you can see it looks terribly compressed in the text. The actual artwork assigned looks MUCH better than this, and it clears up if I make it massive.

Meanwhile, this is how it should look (original image, shrunk to 500x500px)


Sorry for the long post. I didn't know if this belongs in help, or wishlist, but I figured this was an intentional feature of MusicBee. I can understand why though, save space and have better performance. I just wish there were options to opt for better quality artwork or even a little .ini or .cfg fix I could make for this! Thanks a ton for reading. Music Bee is easily my favorite media player ever.