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Questions / Re: Tricky regex expression...?
« on: July 02, 2023, 08:09:37 PM »
Thankyou so much karbock. You're a genius! I must confess, I doubted if it was even possible.

Tested and seems to work perfectly - that was the easy bit! It'll take me quite a bit longer to figure out HOW it works!


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Questions / Tricky regex expression...?
« on: July 02, 2023, 01:52:58 PM »
Hoping someone can help with this.
I have a custom field in MusicBee where I enter multiple values separated by a semi-colon.
e.g. FGH; JKL; ABC

I have an expression that I use in a Virtual Tag to determine whether any values in the Custom Field have been duplicated.

$IsMatch(<MyCustomField>,"(?<=(\b\w+\b).*)\1")

The problem which I've just realised is that this expression only works for the first value, i.e it picks up
ABC; FGH; JKL; ABC

but not
ABC; FGH; JKL; JKL

Would anyone be able to help me correct this expression?




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i've had the same happen to me where I moved the library folder. Can't remember exactly what I did that caused playlists and file locations to get out of sync, but I ended up with No missing music files in the LIBRARY, but most of my playlists were screwed up.

You should be able to fix by dragging all the playlists into a single playlist folder and then selecting this folder. Then use "Relocate Missing files" and fix the location for one file in the list. MusicBee should automatically check that folder for all other missing files as well.

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No worries - I knew it was a fringe use case. I only posted it as may be useful info for others.

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Questions / Re: Determine if track has cover image embedded
« on: June 16, 2023, 06:30:42 PM »
Are you aware of Tools > Artwork > Album Artwork Manager… ?

Thank you - that's really useful, esp the way it groups albums - had a few tracks where I had the album image in another track and could copy it across.

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Questions / Determine if track has cover image embedded
« on: June 16, 2023, 12:33:37 PM »
Is it possible to determine programatically which tracks are missing cover images?
NB I embed all my images.

In mp3tag I can bring up a coversize field which shows me the dimensions of the embedded image. It would be useful to be able to do something similar in musicbee so that I can create an automatic playlist listing all the tracks I need to go find cover images for.

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Probably a fringe case.

If you have a playlist A and you want to append playlist B to the end of it, if playlist B contains duplicate entries, only one of the entries is added.

Easy to reproduce - create two playlists A and B. Add one file to B twice. Then select both entries in list B and drag to A. No dialog about duplicates, and only one entry is added to A.

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Questions / Re: Copy vs Move behaviour
« on: May 27, 2023, 01:12:15 AM »
I'm pretty sure you didn't actually READ my post lol.
I'm pretty sure I wish I hadn't bothered.

You want to move files instead of copying?
Hold down the Shift key.


I'm pretty sure you didn't bother.

You want to respond to a post?

Read the post first.

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Questions / Re: Copy vs Move behaviour
« on: May 26, 2023, 09:30:34 AM »

I'm pretty sure any time this has come up before Steven has been adamant he won't change this behaviour, because MusicBee is following the standard Microsoft introduced almost 30 years ago.

I'm pretty sure you didn't actually READ my post lol.

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Currently when you MOVE files, you get a warning prompt, but if you COPY them, you don't.


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Questions / Copy vs Move behaviour
« on: May 25, 2023, 09:30:21 AM »
If I drag files between folders on the same drive, the default action is Move and I get a prompt. If I drag files and ANY of the files is being dragged to a different drive, MB initiates a COPY without prompting.

Is there a setting for any of this, ideally I'd like to disable COPY completely.

If not possible, did I disable the COPY message popup at some point by clicking "Don't show again", or was there never one there? If disabled, can it be restored?

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Questions / Re: How can i DELETE Tracks: not just 'Remove'?
« on: May 25, 2023, 09:28:06 AM »
When you press Delete - you have the option to remove from playlist, or remove from playlist and delete the file. If you're not seeing this message, it's because you clicked "don't show again".


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There's a few ways of doing this - the easiest way to look at a folder for items in the collection or not, is view the column Category which displays "none" for items in a folder which have not been added to the library.

Of course they could be in the library, but not in the playlist....

Something I've done which is immensely useful is add a "Filter" field under Custom Tags, set to store in the MusicBee database only.

In your case I'd use this column by going into the playlist and editing every entry to set a value in this field. You can then view the folder and easily sort by Filter to view the entries you need to add.




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Questions / Re: most 'robust' MB configuration?
« on: May 14, 2023, 03:55:15 PM »
I have a setup using the portable MusicBee.

On my Desktop - MusicBee application, library and the music files are all stored on a local HDD loaded as Drive E. If you only have one drive you can configure a mapped drive to achieve the same.

So for example you may have everything under C:\Music: C:\Music\MusicBee, C:\Music\MusicBeeLibrary, C:\Music\MusicFiles
Create a mapped drive E which points to C:\Music
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-map-local-folder-as-drive-with-letter-in-windows


I sync the contents of C:\Music to a removable drive for when I want to play music from my laptop. When you plug the drive into the laptop, configure the drive letter to be E - you only need do this once and it will always be E whenever you attach that drive in future.

As far as the laptop is concerned, all the file paths are exactly the same as they are on my desktop, so I can just open the MusicBee app and have everything work.

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Questions / Re: MusicBee integration with iTunes
« on: May 14, 2023, 03:27:55 PM »
Because not all the people who use MB use itunes. But all people who use itunes, use itunes. Therefore questions such as "do I need an Apple account" or "once in itunes" would be better answered by someone who is an itunes user.

You seem to have read my OP rather selectively - not sure what your issue is with my question - it VERY CLEARLY can only be answered by someone highly familiar with MusicBee. I mean how exactly could someone answer "Do I need an Apple account to migrate a library from MusicBee into Traktor?" if they don't know jack about either MusicBee or Traktor??

I've since found other posts that seem to suggest that you can use the iTunesLibrary export from MusicBee to import into DJ software without specifically going through iTunes, by importing the MusicBee xml although I'm not really clear on how they did this. Certainly alec is suggesting a workaround for the flac issue.

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20482.0

@hiccup - converting several thousand files into ALAC is a non-starter sorry.



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