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Questions / theatre mode

« on: April 19, 2024, 09:33:19 AM »

am i being stupid or has theatre mode vanished  

I have 3.6 8869 with an up to date theatre mode dll from the same download on win11 but i can't see it in the menus?

menu I have is under View:
...
Compact Menu
-----------
Start Visualiser
Visualiser >
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Now Playing Menu
...

etc. and I'm sure it used to be in there?

thx

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Bug Reports / Playlist mixer Any Field Null problem

« on: February 22, 2024, 12:30:38 AM »

Just updated to 3.6.8800 and some playlist mixers no longer work.

Problem is that they have criterion:  "Any Field....Has a Value"
That translates to "is not null" in the criteria list display

(btw I am selecting from sublists rather than creating futile entries!)

If I change "any field"  to anything else - say "Title has a value" then this works fine.  Likewise specifying a value for any field then returns an appropriate list.

This is a problem for me selecting from other playlists but to check it also doesn't work if I select the top radio box and my entire music library...

Guess a quote mark got knocked off in the code or something?

Thx

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Questions / dev version confusion

« on: November 13, 2023, 08:11:42 AM »

Hi, which is latest please

I now have MB 3.5.8718 dated November

and MB 3.6.8698 dated October !

Thx

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Questions / how to select and copy text of episode description

« on: November 13, 2023, 07:51:38 AM »

Is there any way to "copy" the text of an episode description.  In all the places that I can see this, there is no option to ctrl-c or right-click copy.

The one place this is possible is in the edit tags window, but the box content is truncated after not many (i haven't counted but maybe 255) characters and so I miss 90% of the text. 

This is important for language learning stuff....  and I might just be missing something

Thx

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MusicBee Wishlist / Sort preference tab or playlist specific

« on: August 31, 2023, 09:46:10 PM »

I have a list of unplayed podcasts that I sort by last added episode date.  Whenever I set this sort, it carries through to every other tab or playlist.

This means that when I open a playlist mixer, which is setup to mix music and podcasts as "select from all criteria randomly", the output also gets sorted by last episode date rather than the "number" field so it is no longer random or no longer aligned to the mixer criteria.

This would be better if rather like the folder view on windows, each tab or playlist "remembered" its own specific sort order

Thx

3.5.8626 on win 11

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MusicBee Wishlist / Podcast subscription level genre override

« on: July 27, 2023, 02:55:20 AM »

I have noticed recently that Podcast authors have started adding their own genres to individual episoodes, which is trivial but might confuse someone's library.

but, more important for me is that I use the "set graphic equaliser by genre" option as my sound set up needs quite different settings for different things. 

so, at the same screen where I can define an override to the download folder for a podcast, it would be helpful to have a setting to set genre for all downloads in  this Podcast.

Probably not the most important wishlist request in the world,to many people  but hey it is a "Wish" list and maybe there are other avid podcastees out there who would agree!

Thanks

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MusicBee Wishlist / Loop Points during playback

« on: July 14, 2023, 09:51:04 PM »

It would be really helpful to have the option to set a start and stop loop point during playback (I use podcasts for both language learning and music piece learning).

There is a skip function to go forwards and backwards 5 and 20 seconds, which I have assigned to ctrl arrow keys

A similar 3 hotkey option as :

•   start loop
•   stop loop
•   cancel loop

would work well.  The player would then be set to repeat single track by the user and where a loop is defined it would repeat within the loop until the loop is cancelled.  This not saved to track - merely during the playback of  a given track

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Bug Reports / podcast artwork no longer working

« on: May 27, 2023, 11:01:57 AM »

Not sure exactly when but this has got now to the point where every podcast episode downloaded does not pick up any artwork.  I can manually add it (but that's silly) using  the existing folder or cover.jpg files in  the directory. 

I have each podcast set to use same author for all episodes but changing that makes no difference

If i am online an image shows in the now playing window but if I click "save as" it always downloads a 0 Kb file that doesn't work...

MB 3.5.8540

Thx
Sara

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TheaterMode / Rotating Images and High vis lyrics Theater Mode

« on: May 09, 2023, 05:27:49 PM »

New Theatre Mode posted - had to create this to upload?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Mini Player Always on Top

« on: May 09, 2023, 04:40:59 PM »

I think this is working as designed and so the issue fits on the wish list, but might be a bug of sorts:

I have Mini Player set to be "always on top" and it does exactly that!  The problem is that it is ruthless  

If I am in Internet Explorer and hit F11 (Full screen view)  or a PowerPoint full screen show, the MB window persists on top.  Maximising it switches focus back to MB as would be expected.  

The Windows taskbar is also always on top but it becomes subservient to certain other full screen calls so it doesn't appear during a slideshow for example.  

Thus during a ppt Slideshow so my 'bottom screen locked' MB miniplayer is left floating a half inch of the screen base.  

Could MB be set to be second top to certain apps (maybe specified in Prefs?) and therefore not visible - as with taskbar?

Hope that makes sense

Sara  MB 3.5.8501 on Windows 11 22624.1690

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Bug Reports / Play Count Tag not updating after replace edit

« on: April 11, 2023, 06:10:50 AM »

Strange problem this but it occurred because I have a playcount filter on my mixer playlists and decided to ammend the playcounts on one podcast stream that had 300 episodes. 

I did not want to reset to zero since am using other numbers for selection criteria so instead selected all files and used tag "find and replace" with a regular expression \w wildcard search on play count.

This worked well or so I thought with all the displayed play counts changing as expected on the panel view

But playing the podcast no longer increments the value and if I change it in edit the panel view of playcount is different from the edit view and still does not increment
Puzzling as I would think there is only one database field so I don't know how it is holding two values. 

I noticed this because my mixer rules on playcount were being ignored - ie the mixer is using the panel view of playcount not the edit view.

I finally solved this by resetting using the wildcard with an empty replace field and they all started functioning again.

In summary it seems that replacing the play count tag using the search and replace tool changes some views of that field but not others...

I have checked and this is repeatable even with one single podcast. 

Something similar happens with music files too but difficult to pin down the logic there on what is going on.   No longer problem for me but something's not quite right

Sara

MB 3.5.8493   Windows 11 22H2 OS 22624.1546

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Bug Reports / closing download sub window error

« on: March 18, 2023, 04:28:19 AM »

Recently (not related to changing version) I have started to get this error every time I click "close" on the download progress window accessed by clicking on the top right arrow.  It never used to do this.  

It tells me to report this "unexpected error" here: (how many expected errors are built into the software?!!)

MusicBee v3.5.8470.15123D  (Win10.0), 18 Mar 2023 10:34:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at #=zl4W0S4viNGGOqb1C1Cj1vUM=.#=zJdLzGFyPNR7x(Int32 #=zPZNli1g=)
   at #=zTNQoPf_DDJ6aqegdS4$j$p8=.OnMouseClick(MouseEventArgs #=zoayXS4M=)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
   at #=zazl$ee3mG8idrVB0By3hZJ0=.WndProc(Message& #=z4XtD8jw=)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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Bug Reports / Mini Player Follows Mouse

« on: November 17, 2022, 10:36:11 AM »

An unusual bug, which I can repeat using any window in my Windows 11 (21H2 22000.1219 Build)  and MB 3.5.8347

To show:

     1) Minimise MusicBee to Mini Player

     2) Change focus to another program window (any but Edge or pdf viewer good example)

     3) Click on Pause button in Mini Player or forward/ backward

What happens:

For a fraction of a second the mini-player becomes "attached" to the mouse pointer.  If I do nothing it jumps a little, but most of the time I am working on another document and after clicking the button move my mouse quickly back to where I was typing half way across the screen.  Then the mini-player moves to that location on the screen!

Set up

I have it set up as Not docked, show in task bar and Always on Top.  However removing Always on Top does not stop this behaviour.  

(Obviously docking it does).

So this is clear bug, but I guess it might be a windows issue rather than MB

Thx

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Bug Reports / Playlist Mixer Sometimes Keeps going forever

« on: November 08, 2022, 03:22:57 AM »

This is difficult to explain but does happen repeatedly, but not every time and I can't work out a sequence to guarantee it happens, but it feels like a bug of sorts...

I have created 4 Root lists using Playlist Mixer.  They simply select a dozen songs by genre randomly from my library (e.g. 1 is pop, 2 reggae, 3 classical etc

I have created a PodcastSelector Playlist Mixer.  This selects one random track from each Podcast Folder (I delete 'listened to' in some podcasts but not all)

I have created 4 Radio Lists using Playlist mixer.  They are constructed as:

 Any Field is Not Null from RootX  TrackCount=2
 Play Count is 0 from PodcastSelector TrackCount=1
 Any Field is Not Null from RootX  TrackCount=2
 Any Field is Not Null from LearnThaiPod  TrackCount=1
 Any Field is Not Null from XmasMix  TrackCount=1  (increase this number as Xmas Approaches!)

This works really well for me and lets me change the roots at a single source but.

When I add the playlist to Play Last or Play Next the sofware does just that.

The inconsistency / bug is:

After playing the list, sometimes (maybe 30%) the list will keep loading a refreshed version and playing on - i.e. my radio stations become never ending.  When it is never ending, I mean literally - I can delete the now playing list and it reappears, I can clear everything 'Stop After Track' then play an album and at the end of the album the radio starts again.  Quitting Music Bee and restarting is the only way to stop it.  

Most of the time that does not happen, and it simply plays through once!  I have tried very hard to work out what makes one behaviour happen and not another but cannot find a pattern.

I also tried selecting all the tracks within the mixer generated list and adding them en-masse, but again sometimes they stop sometimes they don't

I would actually quite like it to keep reloading the playlist - rather similar to autoDJ I guess, but I should be able to stop it.  Anyway, I think there is something wrong here in the seemingly random behaviour?

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Bug Reports / Now Playing Track Info Panel Comments Truncated - Max Row Span not working

« on: November 08, 2022, 02:46:18 AM »

In the now playing window I have a track info panel to the right.  I have set this up to display comments as in <Episode Description> for podcasts because my language learning pod puts text in there to read.

The max row span tops out at (a rather strange) 33 rows...  Whilst I can enter any number no further rows are displayed.  

If this number is deliberately limited if that row count would be better higher, or there is actually a bug?  The window scrolls ok if I make it small so it's not a scrolling issue.

that's the bug report...  (v3.5.8338)

but for context some other feedback on this issue

the episode description shows in full in the podcast window but only 255 characters in the tag editor, which is even worse!  

I discovered this because the mouseover in now playing also displays the full episode description when i have that field in the main window, but it times out and closes even when my mouse is on the podcast.  That time out is 4 secs or so and isn't enough to read the text!

I also can't see any way to copy the entirety of the text to access it that way