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Questions / Large Album view (Now Playing) Crops album art when using left/right panels

« on: August 14, 2023, 02:41:55 AM »

is there a way to prevent this? you can see in the images below how much it effects things and when searching i found this previous post regarding the same issue in default view. that post notes it as an oversight/bug so may be another here when panels are enabled. https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=26130.0





link to imgur if images aren't working: https://imgur.com/a/eZb9PmI

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Questions / Auto Playlists lost source on portable installation.

« on: March 31, 2023, 06:29:35 PM »

I have my musicbee installation and music library stored on an external HDD so i can use it on multiple machines, specifically moved to the "M" Drive as to not cause pathing conflicts with other drives. This works fine for the music, no troubles with tracks not being found and the program sees that playlists are there, but for some reason auto playlists lose their Source and end up becoming blank. when i then reconnect to the original machine, the playlists remain blank.

i have over 300 auto playlists that now don't work because i tried to use the program on another machine once.

what can i do about this, will it continue happening in the future and how do i prevent it?

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Questions / How to enable Auto-Open right side-panel on the Now Playing (Large album view)

« on: May 25, 2022, 05:06:03 PM »

Title says it all, in "Arrange Panels" under "Override for current MusicBee tab" the Left Side Panel has the option to auto hide but right only has the binary Show/Hide and i find it much more useful to have the opposite (auto-open on the right and binary on left).

How do i change this to enable auto-open on the right side-panel?

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Questions / Renaming Folders without moving them

« on: June 07, 2021, 04:58:23 PM »

Hi, I'm trying to clean up my files and am having the issue wherein a number of album's folder names are out of date.

Is there a way to use the renaming tool to rename the folder the songs are in without moving them across multiple albums/folders? I've tried using "[<Year>] <Album>\" at the start of the naming form but that just creates a subfolder for every album while using the "To Folder" option moves the files away from the source folders.


To better illustrate, here's an example.
Say i have the self titled album by Boston located at "C:\Users\Michael\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Borston" and notice that the album title is misspelled.
If i were to manually change the folder name to "C:\Users\Michael\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Boston", Musicbee then has issues finding the songs and the album art corrupts and it just causes a lot of issues.

The only option i can find here is to manually change the name in windows explorer, then delete the files from musicbee and then re-add them to my library, which then causes problems with any playlists those tracks are on. Or to use the renaming function which then creates a subfolder within the Borston folder resulting in "C:\Users\Michael\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Borston\[1976-08-25] Boston".
Hopefully that explains the problem i'm trying to fix.


Is there a way to just change "[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Borston" to "[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Boston" across multiple folders without moving them from the [FLAC] folder?

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Portable Devices / Help with Sync Folder Structure

« on: April 12, 2021, 07:53:28 PM »

I'm having some trouble with how to set the path for syncing files. The default naming template turns out "Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Disc-Track#> - <Title>" But that changes far too many fields for me and massively throws off navigation (the dreaded "Various Artists" in particular is a huge problem).
Conversely, using "preserve folders and filenames" just dumps everything at surface level with no grouping of artists or anything making for a big mess of thousands of albums in one folder.

Ideally i'm trying to get it to just recreate the structure i use within my music folder, I did some digging and found this thread from last year: (https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=31810.0), Which seems to provide some sort of a solution.

However the way my music is organized, I have sub-libraries, Then artists or a common sorting factor, Then the album folders which contain the tracks.
For instance: C:\Users\<Username>\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Beatles\[1967-05-26] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
or  C:\Users\<Username>\Music\Music\[Game Soundtracks]\Final Fantasy\Distant Worlds\[2010-06-01] Distant Worlds II - more music from Final Fantasy

As you can probably see, that's a lot of subfolders, so using the "MUSIC\" shortcut, it creates about 5 excess folders between "Users" and the second "Music" folder.

Is there any way to set where in the chain it creates folders from? From the example above i would ideally want "Music\[FLAC]\Beatles\[1967-05-26] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

How would i go about doing this or excluding all the needless extra folders being created from using "MUSIC\"?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Ability to override full playlist sync (Ticked/unticked)

« on: March 04, 2021, 04:02:44 PM »

I've been using musicbee to sync my library for about 8 months now and it mostly works, but the list of caveats and hoops to jump through to achieve basic functionality parity with where i was at with itunes is incredibly frustrating. All i want to do is sync my playlists but not sync unticked tracks for whatever reason. As it stands the sync option currently only offers "Sync all music", "Sync random music", "Sync playlists" and "Sync Folders". Of these, the most useful for selectively syncing tracks is "Sync Playlists", but the playlist option seemingly ignores the ticked/unticked status of a track and syncs a full playlist regardless of contents, which syncing all music does not.

The only solution anyone seems to have to this is "create an auto-playlist", which I've done and now have to have mirrored auto-playlists for every single playlist i create on the off-chance i dare tick/untick a song. This is not only a frustrating amount of work when creating a new playlist, these auto-playlists seem to be prone to deciding to sort themselves differently than the original playlists (a fact I am often unaware of until they've already synced and i'm away from my computer) and bloat the playlist selection box which is already difficult to manage a large number of playlists in as it is (the ability to sync by folder would be nice too, but that's less the issue here).

This is a frankly needless amount of extra work to achieve something that could be easily achieved through an option in the sync menu that allows the user to decide whether to sync Ticked/Unticked when syncing playlists.

Would this be possible? please?

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Questions / "Encode Failed - aacGain.exe not found" Anyone else having this?

« on: December 07, 2020, 11:10:54 PM »

Trying to sync some tracks and keep getting the error "Encode Failed - aaGain.exe not found". I tried following the instructions on the Help tab but neroaac didn't seem to help, i tried installing aacgain directly and still no results. nothing i seem to do works and i have no idea what else to do

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Portable Devices / Exluded tracks syncing despite indications otherwise.

« on: September 06, 2020, 07:59:36 AM »

So i'm trying to sync my music and using both tick and ban to exclude songs i don't want to hear but do want in my library, obviously these shouldn't be syncing and the sync page acknowledges and says this (see example of 4,600 excluded tracks)


and yet every time i sync, there they are where i don't want them, taking up time and space

https://imgur.com/TJO6i13

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Questions / Display "tick" status on main Music tab?

« on: September 05, 2020, 08:20:39 PM »

i'm trying to manage my library for syncing which includes the use of the tick feature not syncing and using a custom filter to prevent unticked songs from playing in autoDJ.

problem is i can't seem to find a way to show the Tick status in the music tab or the currently playing tracks field. how do i go about displaying it in these fields? and if there isn't one, is there a way of finding tracks that aren't currently in a playlist so i could manually change so that i can untick them?

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Questions / Autoplaylist include "Banned" tracks or exclude from playback without full ban

« on: September 02, 2020, 02:14:14 AM »

I'm trying to create an auto playlist and it is automatically filtering out Banned tracks, Which i don't want it to do. I tried swapping from using the Ban option to "exclude from playback" (which i found through googling and found a thread saying as much), except that just gives it a ban tag again and it disappears from the auto playlist again.

how can i have a song added to an auto playlist while still excluding it from playback (not just shuffle).

Similarly, Banned tracks are hidden from folder view, which is a further problem resulting from this...

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MusicBee Wishlist / Option to exclude Banned/Unticked files from syncing.

« on: August 17, 2020, 11:50:24 PM »

Would it be possible to add a filter/check when syncing that excludes banned/unticked songs from being synced?

Itunes has had this as one of it's few syncing options for over a decade, simply offering "sync only ticked songs" and the lack of it in musicbee involves a ridiculous amount of bending over backwards to get around, especially when syncing a large number of playlists or a full library that contain multiple banned tracks.

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Questions / Exclude individual songs from Syncing.

« on: August 12, 2020, 12:06:53 AM »

Hi there, i just replaced my ipod and am wanting to move my tracks/playlists over from musicbee to my new device.

Problem is, musicbee doesn't differentiate what i want to sync. I'm selecting a playlist i want to sync and it's copying all of it including tracks that are both Banned and Unticked. If there is some function i'm missing on how to prevent these tracks from syncing then please let me know, otherwise I have no idea why this is the case and basically makes the sync function useless to me ATM.