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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: MusicBee's M3U export encoding - BOM required. Configurable?

« on: August 28, 2019, 09:33:14 AM »

I read a bit more on BOM and there are numerous reasons to use BOM on file formats where the encoding is not specified in the standard.

Yesterday I used another tool (listfix) to repair the playlists (re-connect dangling links) and again the tool fails if the BOM is missing.

So actually I didn't find a single tool that requires the BOM to be absent.

If you follow UTF8 recommendations, a BOM should never be a problem.
If it's there you can simply ignore it.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Musicbee's m3u & xml encoding - should be UTF-8 (Without BOM) (imo)

« on: August 28, 2019, 09:31:42 AM »

Uups. The link was incorrect. I corrected that.
Other post is here:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=29470.msg164251#msg164251

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Musicbee's m3u & xml encoding - should be UTF-8 (Without BOM) (imo)

« on: August 27, 2019, 09:18:15 AM »

I found this old thread any just want to refer to my post
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=29470.msg164251#msg164251

It seems some programs like PowerAmp or WinAmp require encoding with BOM.

So making the BOM an option one can activate would help here a lot!

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MusicBee Wishlist / MusicBee's M3U export encoding - BOM required. Configurable?

« on: August 27, 2019, 09:10:14 AM »

As I read here:

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=17948.0

MusicBee used to export M3U files with BOM but that was changed on request to exporting without BOM.

Unfortunately it seems many programs expect BOM (as some seem to expect w/o BOM).
In my case: PowerAmp (the BEST Android music player app) and WinAmp (yes, the old thing) expect M3Us to be WITH BOM.

Any chance to make that configurable?

Thanks,
Ralf

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Questions / Re: Re-scanning library doesn't work

« on: December 07, 2016, 04:45:54 PM »

@ralfiii- to avoid this happening in the future, move or delete files from within MB. Doing it via a file manager will only lead to issues like yours since MB doesn't know where the files went.

Yeah, theoretically this is a good idea, but I sync my music library via a cloud tool between 2 computers and my mobile phone, so in reality that's unfortunately not an option for me.
In winamp-times, I selected "Rescan watch folders" and "Remove missing files from library" (both in the "Library" menu) from time to time.
Let's see how MB behaves after the re-installation...

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Questions / Re: Re-scanning library doesn't work

« on: December 07, 2016, 04:02:05 PM »

use Tools> Advanced> Rescan All Files
after rescan completes, you should get the message alec.tron spoke about

I tried that and it didn't work.
I now uninstalled MB, deleted the data folder and re-installed it. We'll see if that solves the problem...

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Questions / Re-scanning library doesn't work

« on: December 06, 2016, 10:59:37 PM »

Hey there. I am new to MB, so sorry if this is trivial:

I have added some of my music files and deleted others.
How do I now tell MB to re-scan the library folder?
If I select File / "Scan folders for new files" I just get the message "File rescan/ add completed - no new files added".

Would deleted files also be handled by this command? (if it worked)

And, one more thing I realize:
When I select File / Library / Remap Music folders, MB lists 2 folders. The one where all my MP3 files are in, and a 2nd one which at some time in the past had files on them. What has the old location to say here? How do I get rid of that?

Thanks,
Ralf S.

PS: I am using MB V3.0.6132 on a 64bit Win10 machine.