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Questions / Best way to create file with list of Album/tracks

« on: September 23, 2021, 10:07:59 AM »

Hi, can anyone give me some kind hints on how to create a file with a list of the music in the database organized by album/tracks (including album cover) in an efficient way?
I have fiddled with this a few times, but failed to find a reasonable solution, also because the list creation for a large number of albums (say in the thousands) required biblical times, and I had to give up.... Also, what would be the possible/best formats for this? HTML? others?
Thanks a lot

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Musicbee stops playing when windows 10 turns off screen for energy saving

« on: May 17, 2016, 01:29:59 PM »

I ill try the registry editing in the next few days, I am busy with other matters right now... sorry

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Musicbee stops playing when windows 10 turns off screen for energy saving

« on: May 16, 2016, 11:22:24 AM »

It is a machine I use for work as well, but i have an account with administrator privileges. In the control panel there are no other power plans except the "balanced" one, which actually appears to be active. When editing its settings, it has exactly the same option than the PC settings with metro interface: screen and cpu disable timeouts with batteries and power line. And the options values are just the same, and stay the same in the two environments if you change them.
Keep in mind that I know what you mean, i.e. that with control panel you can create and alternatively activate different energy profiles. This machine (which is a small HP 10 inches detachable X2 210 g1) apparently ha no HP-made preinstalled energy profile, just the balanced one

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Musicbee stops playing when windows 10 turns off screen for energy saving

« on: May 16, 2016, 08:26:25 AM »

I have tried the patched exe proposed, but the behaviour does not change: alas, when the screen turn off, so does playback....

Going back to hiccup post suggesting to use the older interface control panel instead that metro-inteface PC settings, I have explored the thing and i must say that I found the two interfaces to be closely related in terms of saving user preferences: in the old cntrol panel I have one power plan only (the so called "balanced") and it has the same and only the same options that you get in the pc settings interface. Moreover you change and save new settings in one interface, you get the new value in the other as well. They appear to be completely consistent (it is actually absurd to have two fully different interfaces to do the same thing, but this is not the matter now). so I found this change of perspective to be of no help, you have the same settings and they act the same way. Thanks anyway

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Musicbee stops playing when windows 10 turns off screen for energy saving

« on: May 14, 2016, 06:18:03 PM »

I would have suspected something like that if there was an hp utility to manage energy settings, but it actually is the standard "PC settings" win10 interface that affects this.
In the pc settings screen, "system" group, power options tab (see for example http://img.wonderhowto.com/img/original/00/31/63575955478586/0/635759554785860031.jpg), the first item at the top rules on this: "SCREEN - on battery power turn off after XXX minutes".
If I change this value, when inactive the screen turn off after the specified time... and musicbee will mute accordingly. As soon as I move the mouse and the screen is back on, musicbee will resume playback.
Some news: I fiddled with this settings a little bit, discovering that the behaviour does NOT depend on electricity coming from batteries or the power line: I experienced it with battery power since the screen timeout was shorter, but it happens when plugged as well if the "plugged in" screen timeout is reached.

In this situation, I do not really know what kind of "less aggressive" power settings I could use, else than setting screen timeout to very long times both when on batteries as well as when plugged in. If you have any specifc hint on this please let me know!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Musicbee stops playing when windows 10 turns off screen for energy saving

« on: May 14, 2016, 11:16:52 AM »

Thank you for the swift reaction!!
In windows 7 this problem does not occur, so I was rather disappointed to have it in windows 10. It is actually microsoft's "fault", since windows changed and musicbee did not (I am trying the same version on the two operating systems).
I did not really ponder what was the most appropriate list; maybe you're right in considering it a wish and not a bug; still, this is a real pain in the ass, and actually makes musicbee (or any other player, since I suppose it is not the only one displaying such behaviour) scarcely usable whenever you're using your pc just to play music, so that the screen is expected to turn off soon and stay that way for most of the time.
And I must say that your skepticism about a chance to solve this really scares me, since in the future of course all PCs will tend to have win10!
You are really saying that there is nothing to be done?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Musicbee stops playing when windows 10 turns off screen for energy saving

« on: May 14, 2016, 09:41:19 AM »

I have an HP detachable notebook with windows 10. Energy saving settings make the screen turn off after 5 minutes of inactivity when you're running on batteries. Unfortunately, if musicbee is playing at that time, it stops together with the screen, and resumes only when the user revives the screen with some activity.

While of course you could fully disable the energy saving feature to avoid the problem, this is actually counterproductive: if you want to play music for a long time when running on batteries, what you need is exactly to turn off the screen and use energy only for playback!

I could not find an option to avoid this problem in musicbee settings; nor did I find any hint to help looking in the forums or anywhere else on the web.

Notice that win10 own music app, the so called "Music groove", does NOT have this problem: in the same situation described above music will go on playing without interruptions.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: File Conversion

« on: March 02, 2011, 05:09:00 PM »

Good news come fast today... thanks for all.
Still there is a last glitch that IMHO should be settled:

if you want to change something of the format of your mp3 and get rid of the originals, what you really want is TO REPLACE the originals with new file with the same name! Of course this not always the case, but at least for me it often is.

The problem is that now you can get rid of the originals when converting only if the latter have a different extensions, otherwise you will get the blocking message asking to change name or folder for the new files.

This is actually a bit incongruous: you should be able to choose the option in all cases, even when your conversion does not change the codec (i.e. the filename extension) but only some parameters of it (e.g. bitrate).

Maybe this will complicate the matter a bit on the technical side, since the program will have to create the converted file with a temp fake name, then delete the original, and finally rename the converted file with the original name. I hope this is not terrible....

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: File Conversion

« on: March 02, 2011, 04:17:01 PM »

I had already posted on this matter, but as the topic has surfaced again I am glad to give my support to it.

The "original folder" option as conversion destination would be great. Otherwise you have to issue as many repetitive conversion commands as the number of folders (i.e. usually albums) you want to convert.

I often convert some dozens of my 2000+ Cds after having ripped them, each in its own folder, to lower bitrate. At present this means exactly dozens of separate but identical conversion commands, one for each CD.

Thanks for the attention,

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MusicBee Wishlist / Some simple functions in convert file command that seem urgent to me

« on: February 02, 2011, 01:56:57 PM »

Hi, i have been using Musicbee for a few days after having read about it on the web.

For a huge collection like mine (72.927 tracks right now) speed is GOOD, updating the library is much faster than other apps 

However I often have the necessity to convert tracks between formats or between different mp3 bitrates. From this point of view a few option would be invaluable... at present the functionality is awkward to use efficiently:

- an option to save the converted tracks in the same folder as the originals, without having to specify it manually (this is impossible to do when applying a conversion command to multiple file in multiple folders). This could be implemented also through the empty folder destination field (i.e., put converted files in the same as originals when the folder destination field is empty)

- an option to delete the original automatically file after successful conversion.

With these two simple option multiple conversion would become easy.

If I simply failed to see such option while they're already available, please let me know and forgive me...

Huge thank for the attention!