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MusicBee Wishlist / Drag & Drop External Playlists into MusicBee Sidepanel "Playlists"

« on: November 10, 2023, 02:31:35 PM »

Hello everybody!  

Hopefully, I am not the entire outlier as far as this request is concerned. Namely, I am looking for a quick and easy way to get external playlists into MusicBee. This is being said with proper acknowledgement to the developer that providing the support for such a feature might not be at all so "quick and easy".

What I am asking for to be considered, please, is a drag-and-drop action, or perhaps another, more suitable method to apply to get external playlists imported into MusicBee "Playlists" (GUI, left panel). (Screenshot).

Some backdrop is found at this post: How to import m3u-playlists directly into MusicBee?

As an alternative to drag-and-drop, or possibly in addition to it, please consider adding support for another method to import external playlist into MusicBee "Playlists", such as, for e.g., right-clicking on a premade folder to evoke the context menu through which to "Import Playlists". I realise this is a crude layout, but it's just a general idea to start with.

Thank you!

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Questions / Re: How to import m3u-playlists directly into MusicBee?

« on: October 17, 2023, 01:05:36 PM »

I have done this before, but I am going to do so again. However, does it offer a satisfactory explanation why a selection of multiple playlists cannot be imported to the Playlist Node with a simple drag and drop?

I create all my playlists in MusicBee, so I don't have a proper answer to this question, however, if MB is incapable of doing this, you can make a request on the Wishlist board for it to be implemented. I'm fairly sure you'll get some +1s and I don't believe it would require an exorbitant amount of effort to create.

Thank you, I appreciate your reply. I contemplated doing, as you advised, before posting here. I wanted to assure that I was not overlooking anything obvious, beforehand.

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Questions / Re: How to import m3u-playlists directly into MusicBee?

« on: September 20, 2023, 10:36:16 AM »

What does this mean?  There can be only one format for library playlists.  You can't have two defaults for library playlists.

The other row is the format for playlists that you export, not for your library.

Thank you for your input, @frankz, especially for pointing out the ambiguity concerning the library playlists. What I had intended to put across was that I have kept the default playlist format settings as they are, that is, Library Playlists as MBP and the Exported Playlists as M3U.

If you're trying to bring in m3u playlists, that should be m3u.

That's what I do, continually.

It may be worthwhile going through this post again step by step.  The first step clearly says to make the default m3u.  You can even put the m3u playlists in subfolders of the "Library Playlists" main folder using windows explorer.  There's no reason why this shouldn't work.

I have done this before, but I am going to do so again. However, does it offer a satisfactory explanation why a selection of multiple playlists cannot be imported to the Playlist Node with a simple drag and drop?

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Questions / Re: How to import m3u-playlists directly into MusicBee?

« on: September 19, 2023, 02:22:30 PM »

Just to be sure, I am not currently deploying devices at all. How does setting up a device help to import playlists from my PC hard drive, when no such device exist?

It doesn't. That setting only applies to where the playlists are stored on the device. It has nothing to do with importing playlists to MB.

A playlist is nothing more than a text file containing the path to where the music files exist.
Where are the playlists now? On a portable drive? USB drive? A folder on a PC?
And do they point to the exact path as to where the music files are?
If so, you can simply drag them from where they are and drop them in the Playlists node in MB.

Thank you very much, @phred.

The playlists reside in a folder on the PC hard-drive. These can be dragged and dropped individually into a pre-made folder in the MB Playlist Node just fine, each a carbon copy of the one on the hard drive, properly named and all. However, when multiple playlists get selected for the same operation, the playlist transfers unexpectedly go into another folder, which is auto-created as the identically named subfolder (child) of the one upon which they are getting dragged and dropped. Should the multi-selected playlists not follow the same behaviour as those dropped individually? Also, when the entire folder containing the playlists is dropped onto the MB Playlist Node, only the folder name shows, sans its playlist content.


Correction: The playlists reside in a folder on the PC hard-drive. These can be dragged and dropped individually into a pre-made folder in the MB Playlist Node just fine, each a carbon copy of the one on the hard drive, properly named and all. However, when multiple playlists get selected for the same operation, the playlist transfers unexpectedly go into another folder, one which is auto-created as the identically named child of the parent folder onto which they are getting dropped. Also, when the entire folder containing the playlists gets dropped onto the parent folder in MB Playlist Node, the sub-folder so created contains the combined tracks from all the playlists, rather than a list of the individual playlists. Should the multi-selected playlists, which get dropped in this manner, not follow the same behaviour as those dropped individually?

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Questions / Re: How to import m3u-playlists directly into MusicBee?

« on: September 19, 2023, 12:02:22 PM »

> Can't you set the paths manually in Preferences -> Devices -> *Your Device* -> Settings?

Just to be sure, I am not currently deploying devices at all. How does setting up a device help to import playlists from my PC hard drive, when no such device exist?

I still require importing a huge number of playlists, which are regularly updated, and which are stored in a hard drive, directly into the Playlist Directory in MusicBee. Should not importing playlists be very simple to do, for e.g. in the line of 1) right-click Playlist (MB Directory), 2) choose location 3) select the playlists to import and 4) pressing OK, but I am surely not getting the hang of it. Any pointers are still very welcome.

Thank you.

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Questions / Re: How to import m3u-playlists directly into MusicBee?

« on: September 11, 2023, 08:20:49 AM »

Can't you set the paths manually in Preferences -> Devices -> *Your Device* -> Settings?

Thank you. Yes, I can.

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Questions / How to import m3u-playlists directly into MusicBee?

« on: July 23, 2023, 02:25:25 PM »

Ref: MusicBee v3.5.8604 Portable, Windows 7 PC

Hello Everyone,

I put my playlists in a structured folder-tree under the header Playlists, located in the Left Sidebar.

The default playlist extensions, MBP and M3U (Preference > Library > playlist), are kept.

If possible to effect, how can I import any number of M3U playlists directly into any of the aforesaid playlist folders? I did apply the solution that was previously offered over here, but eventually, after numerous efforts, MusicBee would still not locate the tracks to play. The identical playlists would play fine if they were opened into the player from another source, and could be added, as usual, to the playlist folders from there.

Thank you for any tips you may have.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Programme > Preferences > Tools > External Application > Sorting

« on: July 19, 2023, 11:57:32 AM »

Not very elegant, but for now you could close MusicBee and edit MusicBee3Setting.ini in your appdata folder.

Look for the options that start with SystemExternalTool.

Hello, and thank you, Zak, for posting that very useful interim solution. My first venture into the "MusicBee3Settings.ini", sadly, came adrift.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Programme > Preferences > Tools > External Application > Sorting

« on: July 16, 2023, 06:30:25 PM »

Only if the references to the positions present in other places automatically get adjusted accordingly.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Programme > Preferences > Tools > External Application > Sorting

« on: July 14, 2023, 01:51:38 PM »

Thank you, Phred.

I am asking for a manual sort for the External Applications — same as, or similar to, the one currently getting used for the Toolbar Configuration.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Programme > Preferences > Tools > External Application > Sorting

« on: July 14, 2023, 12:37:55 PM »

MusicBee 3.5.8447

Hello everyone,

Bar copying and pasting, is there perhaps another method available with which to quickly sort the "External Applications" listed under "Tools"?

If not, please see whether you agree that the current sorting method deployed for "Set Toolbar Buttons", could be fruitfully deployed in MusicBee. The latter sorting method works a charm. Alternatively, please consider moving a list entry by dragging it from its current position and then dropping it into its new position.

Thank you.

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Tips and Tricks / Re: How To (Easily) Fix Broken Playlists

« on: May 14, 2023, 05:44:27 PM »

A decade-old thread, but here we go. Another developer revived listFix():

listFix

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Questions / Re: Identifying Different File Formats at a Glance?

« on: December 29, 2020, 04:08:52 PM »

Thank you, @MTVhike and @hiccup! I would not have known where to look for it, have you not provided the very welcome pointers.

Both methods are good for the job. Off the cuff, the colour-option seems to have a slight edge over the additional column required to display the "kind". However, I am going to check them both out over the longer run.

Thanks again.

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Questions / Identifying Different File Formats at a Glance?

« on: December 29, 2020, 12:47:26 PM »

Although I keep two separate libraries, one in a single lossy format and another in a single lossless format, I have now also combined them into a third. From this, flows the question: Is it perhaps possible to identify, at a glance, the different file formats of any number of tracks on display in MusicBee? For instance, an identifying mark, or colour?

Thank you, and best wishes to every single one of you for 2021, and beyond.

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Questions / Re: 'Send to Clipboard' Tags ♦ Sequential Numbering?

« on: November 20, 2020, 04:05:03 PM »

Thanks, that's exactly what I ended up doing — only in MS Word.