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Bug Reports / Horizontal scrolling doesn't work and/or produces visual bug

« on: September 07, 2019, 10:56:28 PM »

Hi. I have a mouse with a horizontal scroll wheel (Logitech MX Master). Using it to scroll horizontally works fine in most programs, but in MusicBee it doesn't work. When trying to scroll the main window area horizontally (when the columns are wider than the panel), it doesn't do anything. I've tried it on 3 different computers, and it doesn't scroll horizontally at all on any of them, including a computer that has a fresh install of MusicBee.

On one of the computers, horizontal scrolling produces a visual bug. If my current view of the main panel area is all the way to the left, and then I try scrolling horizontally to the left, it produces what you see in the screenshot. I've been using MusicBee for about a year now, and this has happened with every version of MusicBee that I've used in that time, and every configuration of view panels I've had in MusicBee.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/J5O7shQ

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General Discussions / MusicBee performance with lots of playlists?

« on: September 12, 2018, 06:24:03 AM »

Hi. I'm in the process of migrating my iTunes library over to MusicBee. So far, MusicBee has been awesome! It's a great improvement over iTunes.

One thing I'm wondering about is MusicBee's performance with libraries that have lots of playlists. When I imported my iTunes library into MusicBee, it successfully imported the 100 or so regular playlists I had in iTunes. But, that's just the start. I have a further 300 - 400 smart playlists in iTunes, which I'll have to re-make in MusicBee as auto-playlists. Some of these are pretty complicated, relying on 2 or 3 levels of other auto-playlists in their criteria, and some of them have dozens of criteria.

I've added about a dozen of these auto playlists so far and have noticed a bit of a slowdown in MusicBee. So, I'm wondering: for others out there with libraries that have hundreds (or thousands?) of playlists, especially auto-playlists, what is the performance like?

For reference: my computer has an i7-7700HQ, 16GB RAM, and a M.2 SSD.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Artist/track names when using wave bar

« on: September 11, 2018, 03:28:37 AM »

When the wave bar is used instead of the progress bar in the main window, the artist and track info is no longer shown. Can you allow them to be shown with the wave bar, maybe on one side of it? Or, if I'm missing something, could you tell me how to enable this if it's already an option?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Multiple hotkeys for a single action

« on: September 11, 2018, 03:24:33 AM »

It would be nice to allow for more than one hotkey for an action. For example, I like having the global hotkeys Alt+Shift+Z, Alt+Shift+X, and Alt+Shift+C for Previous Track, Play/Pause, and Play Next Track, respectively, which I can use from anywhere in Windows. However, when I'm in MusicBee, I'd prefer to be able to use simpler hotkeys for those actions. For example, Left Arrow, Spacebar, and Right Arrow for the above 3 actions. But, as is, I can only set one hotkey per action.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Ability to set the same displayed fields in all playlists/music library

« on: September 11, 2018, 03:20:56 AM »

It would be nice to have the ability to set all playlists (both regular and auto-playlists) as well as the main music library to show the same displayed fields and the same widths, so that everything looks the same. Maybe a button that sets all playlists to have the same displayed fields as the ones currently shown in the main music library? From what I understand, all regular playlists will have the same displayed fields as long as the setting "displayed fields:" is set to "use default" for that particular playlist. However, auto-playlists are left out of this, and I would like to make these playlists look the same as my regular playlists.

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Bug Reports / Weird characters show up in some lyrics

« on: September 11, 2018, 03:15:33 AM »

Weird characters show up in some lyrics, even though the lyrics appeared fine in iTunes before I migrated to MusicBee. Is this maybe a case of the lyrics having one type of character encoding, and MusicBee not supporting it? (maybe UTF-8 vs UTF-16?)

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Bug Reports / Lyrics line breaks aren't displayed

« on: September 11, 2018, 03:11:49 AM »

I recently migrated from iTunes to MusicBee, and it seems like line breaks aren't handled well in the lyrics. When I edit a song's tags (by pressing Shift-Enter) and go to the lyrics tab, most of the line breaks don't show up. So, it ends up being one (or a few) long lines of text, instead of being displayed on multiple lines, like it should be. When I had these same songs in iTunes, the lyrics showed up properly.

Similarly, when I show the Lyrics panel in MusicBee's main window, the lyrics don't show quite properly there either. In this case, a single line break is shown properly, but when there's 2 line breaks (as when separating a verse from a refrain), it only shows 1 line break. I can edit these lyrics to add any number of line breaks, then they show up properly both in the window for editing tags, and in the lyrics panel.

So, it seems to be an issue with how MusicBee processes existing lyrics, rather than an issue with adding line breaks. Maybe this is an issue with Windows vs Unix line break formats? It looks like the existing lyrics, that were added using iTunes, use a line break format that MusicBee doesn't support?