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Questions / Re: Is there any way I can have Musicbee not popping up whenever I play a new track?

« on: September 11, 2018, 10:40:56 AM »

I'm still not sure what you're asking.  Are you double clicking files in Windows Explorer as you say in your first post, having them open in MB, but not wanting MB to come to the front at that time?  If so, I don't think there's a way.  That's pretty much standard Windows behavior.

This. I do not except MB to come to the front EVERY TIME I double click a file in Windows Explorer (apart from the time you first launch it). And this is not necessarily standard Windows behavior, it's up to the program's settings/design to enforce that behavior or not. As a matter of fact I looked it up trying to find a workaround, but every conversation in forums results in the general consensus that users cannot really do anything about it and it's up to each program's dev to enforce that behavior or not.
I am looking to fully migrate from Winamp to MB and that's not the case there which is probably the reason it bugs me so much.
I really do like Musicbee overall but as I've explained, having it stealing focus each time I am trying to locate a specific song between others or preview 2 secs samples is really annoying.

I believe what I am asking is clear by now but I'll just break it in steps just in case:

*Focus in Windows Explorer
*Doubleclick a music file ----> Musicbee launches
*Focusing in Windows Explorer again
*Doubleclicking another music file ----> Musicbee comes to the front AGAIN. Winamp and other music player programs I've tried stays in background unless you click on its icon in windows taskbar.

I am not sure how easy it's for the devs to give a "stay in background" option but personally, I'd really appreciate it.

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Questions / Re: Is there any way I can have Musicbee not popping up whenever I play a new track?

« on: September 09, 2018, 05:21:33 PM »

Rephrasing (I see no edit function), I am asking whether there's a way to prevent Musicbee from stealing focus from other applications as soon as you play a track.
Upon further investigation there's really no way to prevent that other than minimizing Musicbee each time you are done doing something with it which is not exactly practical.
There are a number of reasons you might want a "do not steal focus unless you deliberately click on the Musicbee icon on the taskbar" option.
In my case, I find that annoying when I am changing between songs trying to locate a specific one. But the major annoyance is I cannot use my (intended) main music player for previewing sound samples (kickdrums etc.) outside of my DAW (music making app) without having it popping up after every 1 sec track.

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: September 09, 2018, 02:38:06 PM »

Thanks for your reply Franz.

I understand your point. The idea is that a good way to test the plugin is using the "Search Next Provider" function and if everything was working as intended, one would retrieve lyrics results in the order provided in the plugin setting. Does the ""Search Next Provider"" work for you at all, by the way?
I seem to get the correct lyrics most of the time too, what happens is that when I don't (seemingly by these two sources mentioned) nothing gets automatically fetched by the other sources and nothing happens when I manually "search next provider" either, even when I know lyrics are available in the site.
Also, I've got "Metro Lyrics" as my number one source in the plugin settings but I never seem to get lyrics from that one at all.

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: September 09, 2018, 02:12:49 PM »

Hi there, I've been trying to make LyricsReloaded work for a while now without much success.
The problem is that Musicbee sometimes shows no lyrics at all or lyrics from a whole different song of the artist/band other than the one played (and we're talking no obscure stuff now, Morrissey for example). So in that case I am trying to "search next lyrics provider" but this never seems to work. Even when correct lyrics do appear (lyrics source seem to be either the Musicbee plugin or Lyricwiki only) "search next provider" still doesn't work. Any ideas?

Things I've tried:
* Reordering my lyrics sources in "Tags (2)/Auto-tagging" as the plugin suggests.
* Uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin (latest version as well).
* Uninstalling and reinstalling Musicbee (latest version as well, tried the portable version too).

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Questions / Is there any way I can have Musicbee not popping up whenever I play a new track?

« on: September 09, 2018, 01:30:46 PM »

Is there any I can have Musicbee NOT popping up whenever I play a new track by doubleclicking on the file?
I don't want it minimized on tray per se and the little pop up when a new track in the playlist starts playing is ok, I merely want the main window of the application stay in the background unless I bring it in the foreground myself by clicking in the windows taskbar icon.
This should be pretty simple but I just can't find the setting to change that behavior.  Thanks!