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Questions / Duplicate tracks throughout library after replacing hard drive

« on: October 26, 2021, 01:47:17 AM »

I've been a very happy MB user for some time, but recently had to replace the hard drive in my computer.  The tech who did it transferred all my MB data to the new drive, but I noticed that in the middle of my Music (album) directories (c:/Users/Jon/Music/10cc, Beatles, Billy Joel, etc.) is a directory labeled MusicBee.  That in turn contains a "Ripped Files" sub-directory which contains another full set of my Music (album) directories and tracks, e.g. c:/Users/Jon/Music/MusicBee/Ripped Files/10cc, Beatles, Billy Joel, etc.  Is this a standard configuration? 
The problem is that now that I've reinstalled MB, every album contains two copies of every track, one in the Music directory and one in the Ripped Files one.  I've tried using the Manage Duplicates tool, but when it displays the duplicate tracks to be managed (which is everything in the library, over 11,000 tracks) it mixes up the directories where it found them.  For example, the Path of the first track on an album is shown as the /Jon/Music/10cc directory (as an example) while its identified Duplicate File is in the/Jon/Music/MusicBee/Ripped Files/10cc directory.  The same is true for the next track, but the third track has the directories reversed; the main Path is shown as the /Ripped Files directory while the Duplicate File is in the Jon/Music one.  The next track is back to the first order, the couple after that are reversed again, and so on in apparently random fashion.
How can I clean this up?  The Duplicates Manager tells me to drag and drop from one side to the other to sort the tracks I want to keep, but I can't do that for every single track in the library.  Help!
Jon

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Questions / Album cover images change to the most recent image saved for any album,

« on: July 01, 2020, 01:33:31 AM »

   I recently added a bunch of new albums to my MB library, then right clicked on each album art placeholder, searched the Internet for each album's cover image and saved it to the album, checking the boxes for "embed the picture in the music file", "link the picture to this music track" and "link to an organized copy of this picture", leaving the default file name as Cover.jpg.  I then scroll down the album art display page to the next ones needing attention and repeat the process for each.  If I then scroll back up to the earlier ones I downloaded and saved, I find that the images have all been changed to the last one I downloaded and saved.
   Example: I find and save the correct cover art for "Architecture and Morality" and "Astral Weeks", then scroll down to "Flesh and Blood" and "The Fox", find and save the correct art for each.  If I scroll back up to "A & M" and "Astral Weeks", the cover art displayed for both is now that for "The Fox".  If I change both back to their correct images, then scroll down, the art for both "Flesh and Blood" and "The Fox" is now that for "Astral Weeks".
   Clearly something isn't "taking" here.  Is there some further step I need to take to make these images stay with their correct albums?
Many thanks!
Jon

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Bug Reports / Access denied when trying to create New Playlist

« on: June 14, 2020, 04:26:54 PM »

The following error message appears when I try to create a New Playlist.  Any suggestions?

Thank you!

Jon

MusicBee v3.3.7310.31925D  (Win10.0), 14 Jun 2020 8:11:

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied. [C:\Users\jon\Music\MusicBee\Playlists\Playlist.mbp]
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Questions / Is there an MB equivalent to iTunes Genius Mix to auto-create a playlist?

« on: January 18, 2020, 01:56:17 AM »

One of the (few) things I liked about iTunes was the ability to right click on a single track and have it create a Genius Playlist, picking as many tracks as you specified (25, 50, 100, whatever) that were related to the starter track in terms of similar period, music style, artist, etc.  E.g., starting with a Beatles track would automatically generate tracks from the Stones, Who, Yardbirds, Hollies, etc, but not anything from the 50s or 90s, nor anything from other genres.  I'd hoped Auto-DJ would do this, but I haven't found a way to restrict it to a specific Genre, or time period; it seems to pull tracks from across my full Library, including classical and jazz.

I've tried using Auto-Playlists to do something similar (Genre is Pop/Rock, Decade is 70s)  but this is still a bit wide for the selection.  I've built Auto-Playlists where Artist is any of Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc., but this excludes all the many good single tracks I have in the Library.  iTunes used to do this all automatically, pulling in relevant tracks I hadn't heard in a long while.

How have other people approached this?  Thanks for any advice!

Jon

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Questions / Cover art images from Internet don't always Save

« on: January 16, 2020, 02:42:51 AM »

Is there some trick to getting cover art images found on the Internet to Save to a folder?  This seems to be erratic.  Many album covers are found (right click on blank album image placeholder icon and select "Search Internet for Picture") and Save just fine.  Several others are found just fine, but clicking Save does nothing at all; no image appears in the folder,and there's no error message or indication of a problem.  I though that it might be a copyright issue with some artists (even though the images are listed under iTunes or Google) but it seems to be album-specific; some album images from a specific artist Save just fine, others from the same artist do not.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Jon

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Questions / Filters seem to be working inversely

« on: January 15, 2020, 07:45:21 PM »

Sorry if this is just my misunderstanding of filter grammar, but I'm trying to set up a filter for an Auto-Playlist and it seems to be working backwards.  (I'm on MB version 3.3.7310)  I have the playlist set to "Genre is New Age".  Most tracks are around 4-6 minutes long, but quite a few are extended meditation pieces, which I'd like to exclude from what's intended to be a background music playlist.  If I set the next filter (after Genre) to "Time is less than 15" it excludes the whole genre, including the 45-minute tracks.  If I set it to "Time is greater than 15", it selects a playlist of tracks but they are all shorter ones, i.e. about 4-8 minutes.  What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks for any advice or pointers to an explanation.

Jon