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Portable Devices / Android music players similar to Musicbee?

« on: March 28, 2024, 05:02:45 PM »

I've been using a NW-A105 Walkman for some time now and I've usually stuck to the built-in music player. It's not bad, but it's a little basic. I started to branch out and look for other players to make my main. The one I spent the most time on is Poweramp, which I see recommended in a lot of circles. It's pretty good, but I'm kind of an obsessive person when it comes to the way I tag. What I mostly don't like is that Poweramp doesn't support sorting by release dates beyond just the year; and that's a big part of my library.

I'm mostly looking for players everyone else uses that might be similar to Musicbee. Something I would really like from my ideal player is multiple artists/genres support, the aforementioned release date/"sort album" sorting, and maybe support for the "DISPLAY ARTIST" tag. The "DISPLAY ARTIST" one is probably the most important to me since I want to keep featured artists on the tracks. Poweramp will just display it as "Artist 1; Artist 2", which is beyond irritating.

I know what I'm asking for might be a long shot, but I'm still fairly new to Android music apps, so maybe there's something out there that'll fit my arbitrary criteria  

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Beyond MusicBee / Android music players similar to Musicbee?

« on: March 27, 2024, 05:54:23 PM »

I've had an NW-A105 Walkman for some time now and I've usually stuck to the built-in music player. It's not bad, but it's a little basic. I started to branch out and look for other players to make my main. The one I spent the most time on is Poweramp, which I see recommended in a lot of circles. It's pretty good, but I'm kind of an obsessive person when it comes to the way I tag. What I mostly don't like is that Poweramp doesn't support sorting by release dates beyond just the year; and that's a big part of my library.

I'm mostly looking for players everyone else uses that might be similar to Musicbee. Something I would really like from my ideal player is multiple artists/genres support, the aforementioned release date sorting, and maybe support for the "DISPLAY ARTIST" tag. The "DISPLAY ARTIST" one is probably the most important to me since I want to keep featured artists on the tracks. Poweramp will just display it as "Artist 1; Artist 2", which is beyond irritating.

I know what I'm asking for might be a long shot, but I'm still fairly new to Android music apps, so maybe there's something out there that'll fit my arbitrary criteria  

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Questions / How do I search for guest artists in custom search?

« on: March 25, 2024, 02:41:08 AM »

I'm trying to revert my tracks with Artist:Guest back to just "artist" and use ASR to remove the artists that follow after the first artist. When I try to do a custom search, it doesn't have any results despite there being plenty of songs in my collection with that field. In contrast, using custom search to find songs without a value there has results. I don't know why it's not working correctly.

I can still get the results by sorting the left sidebar for it, but it's not incredibly helpful. Especially since I also want to look for the semicolon and custom search won't even show that either.

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Questions / How do you refresh/rescan device libraries?

« on: September 12, 2020, 05:53:13 AM »

I use MusicBee to transfer files to my NW-A55 and whenever I go to look at the device's music so I can edit it, I get the "The file(s) being edited have been updated outside of MusicBee - you may need to rescan them to ensure the most recent tag values are displayed and saved." error message. I've tried scanning for new files and the "Rescan All Files" option, but that only affects my computer's library and not the device.