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MusicBee Wishlist / Link Two or More Tabs by Selected Artist/Track

« on: July 30, 2023, 01:09:22 PM »

For any open tabs, an option to link any of these tabs together so that selecting a track from any artist/album artist in one of the tabs will automatically select the same artist/track in the other linked tabs.

This would speed up the process of navigation and alleviate the current situation where you tend to get stuck permanently in one view (as it's too much trouble to switch between views and have to search for the artist again in each tab).

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For example:
You may have the Artwork tab and the Music Explorer tab both open and pinned. The Artwork view is perhaps the best way to browse the library to find an artist you want to look at, but for exploring within the artist it's usually better to switch to the Music Explorer tab instead.

The problem is, when you open the Music Explorer tab you then have to search through the library for the same artist once again within this tab before you can dig any deeper.

It would be much quicker and more convenient if you could link these two pinned tabs in such a way that selecting a track in one tab will mean you are automatically navigated to the same track in the linked tab (whenever you choose to open it).

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Consequently I tend to get stuck permanently in the Artwork tab and rarely get to use the other views, so their functionality is largely abandoned.

It would be helpful if any number of pinned tabs could be linked as described, so that selecting an artist/track in one tab automatically selects the same artist/track in any linked tabs. Meanwhile, any tabs that are not linked would behave as normal.

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To save PC resources, there's no need to synchronise across the linked tabs until one of these other tabs is actually opened.
Effectively, you would just say:
- on opening a LINKED tab you are automatically navigated to the same artist & track as in the tab you just came from

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This feature is common on share trading platforms. You may have half a dozen charts open in different mini-windows on-screen, all displaying different types of info about the same stock. You would typically have these tabs/windows linked so that selecting a new stock in any of them will instantly change all the other tabs to display info on that same stock. Obviously you wouldn't have to change all of them manually every time you choose a different company to look at.
It's a completely intuitive way to navigate a large database.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Show all tracks OMITTED by Auto-Playlist

« on: September 13, 2021, 07:25:44 PM »

Auto playlists are a great feature but the only problem is, you can't quite be sure of which tracks you might have unintentionally omitted by the rules you set. It would therefore be extremely useful (and presumably quite easy) to have a button or menu item allowing you to show all tracks that have been omitted by your rules.

This way you can scan the 'omitted' list and try to spot if there are tracks you would have liked to include.

This will help you to tweak the rules so the auto-playlist reflects your intentions better.

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[ I searched through the MB forum wishlist and couldn't find this idea in any other thread ]

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Questions / Playlists are synced to android device as .pla files

« on: December 22, 2016, 08:25:56 PM »

I've been trying for some time to get MB playlists (m3u) to sync with an android device. Whenever I run the sync, it appears to be successful but the playlists appear on the device as .pla files rather than .m3u files.

Some android music player apps seem to read these .pla files with no problem at all, and they will play the playlist (even though the file size appears to be 0.0 bytes) but other music player apps refuse to recognize the playlists at all.

I've tried every possible change of settings I can think of but I just can't figure out why the playlists are transferred as .pla files intead of m3u. (The m3u file type is selected in MB Library Settings).

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MusicBee Wishlist / Expanded Panel View: Sort order of tracks -AND- Jump to top of window

« on: March 01, 2015, 12:04:14 PM »

In Expanded View, if you expand an album that doesn't have track numbers the sort order of tracks seems to be completely random and doesn't follow the sort order that has already been assigned in the Track Details view. This means it takes much longer to search for the track you want because you have to go through the whole list, rather than  just visually jumping to the initial letter for your track.

If the sort order doesn't follow the sort order in Track Details View I would still expect the tracks to at least arrange themselves alphabetically when there are no track numbers, but this doesn't happen.

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A second request also related to Expanded View:  If you expand an artist, it usually jumps that row of artists to the middle of the screen (vertically) and then when you expand one of the albums it will then open up below this middle row, thus occupying the bottom half of the window.

The problem is, you're wasting half the screen. Once you can see your artist, you don't need to see the artists above - you only need to see the artist's position along the row in question. When you expand an album, sometimes there are way too many tracks to show in the available space below this middle row so you end up having to scroll (with a very sensitive/jumpy scrolling effect) to see the remaining tracks.

It would be helpful if when you click on an artist, that row rises to the top of the window, allowing much more space below for expanding the albums/tracks belonging to the artist. When you close the Expanded Panel it would neatly close up to the top row again, showing the position of your artist within that row and also showing all the artists below. There's no need to also see the artists above.

To me this would be more intuitive and more useful at the same time.

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Questions / Expanded Panel - Sort order of tracks within an album

« on: February 22, 2015, 08:53:22 PM »

Hi All,

I have been a very happy MB user for several years now, thanks to Steven for all the good work.

There's one thing I can't seem to figure out since the Expanded Panel layout came in:  If you expand an album that doesn't have track numbers, the sort order appears to be fairly random and doesn't follow the sort order that has already been assigned for the Track Details view.

I can't see a way to change the sort order specifically for Expanded View (you can choose which fields are displayed but not the sort order) and would like to arrange tracks alphabetically when there are no track numbers.

Does anyone know of a way to do this, or should I submit a feature request?

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Questions / Toolbar buttons have disappeared on last update

« on: September 28, 2014, 12:33:30 PM »

For some time I've used MB with a few very helpful toolbar buttons at the top of the main panel. Today I updated to v. 2.4.5349 and the toolbar buttons have disappeared from view.

They seem to still exist in the setup, if I look in the 'Preferences/Layout(1)/toolbar buttons' dialog I can see the configuration for each button is still there. But even if I click on 'Update' and 'Save' this has no effect on making the toolbar buttons appear where they should be.

Am I missing something?