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Developers' Area / Re: C# vs C++ for Addon Creation

« on: March 01, 2024, 11:03:35 AM »

I just want to create an addon that will loop through the tracks of the selected album, grab the contents of a few specific tags and then write out a text file using those tags (with a few stats derived from the tags)

this should be pretty simple in C# , right? I mean the part about being to loop through all tracks of a selected album (or album of of selected track).. and grab the tags ?

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Developers' Area / C# vs C++ for Addon Creation

« on: February 28, 2024, 12:18:30 AM »

Hello, I would like to write an addon for MusicBee.

However, I'm rusty on C# (which is the only .NET) language I know.. so I would rather not use it as it would take time for me to get back into the "swing of things".

I am good at C++ (I use Visual Studio 2022 / MSVC)

So my question is, is it ok to use C++? or would it be easier to use C#?

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Questions / Re: Combining my 3 smart playlists into one

« on: November 21, 2023, 06:28:58 PM »

ah ok I will check that out - in my head I was conflating auto dj with the playlist mixer, and I read a comment about the auto dj not supporting albums .. just tracks.

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Questions / Re: Combining my 3 smart playlists into one

« on: November 21, 2023, 05:33:28 PM »

yes mine do also.

However for v1 it achieves something

for v2 all refreshing does is rearrange the order of the 3 albums (i.e. performs musical chairs).. to get truly random albums you need to edit the auto playlist and save - or modify something but save is better than modifying as it doesn't modify anything

first open of auto playlist v2



F5 of v2 auto playtlist



Edit v2 Auto Playlist | Save Trick



Edit v2 Auto Playlist | Save Trick - Done again

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Questions / Re: Combining my 3 smart playlists into one

« on: November 21, 2023, 05:21:24 PM »

well following frankz suggestions, the best I could figure out to do what I wanted was to get it to sort of work.

v1
it shows 3 random albums however I could not figure out how to restrict it to only one album per artist.

v2

it does this correctly:
1. suggests one album from each artist randomly

Refreshing the smart playlist only rearranges the order of the 3 randomly selected albums however.

I can force it to choose 3 random new albums again by opening the edit dialog of the auto playlist and hitting save

So basically I can achieve what I want, however it is a bit cumbersome.

is there any way to refine it to work via refresh?



I guess the solution is ... because it is kind of stupid to have to choose Edit Auto Playlist | Save , each time

is to use v1 but to make it show 21 albums or something large like that to be guaranteed a selection that would contain a mixture of albums from each artist on each refersh

v1


v2


actually I was in general quite happy to have 3 different auto playlists, 1 per artist. However the problem was they weren't easy to access since I would need to get to the playlist explorer each time. I would prefer to use a tab header but I don't want to waste 3 spots as my tab headers are already quite crowded, that is why I wanted to combine it to one playlist. so I would have one Random Album Tab

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Questions / Re: Combining my 3 smart playlists into one

« on: November 21, 2023, 02:29:19 PM »

ok, thanks for the tip

or wait is this going to be random song by song? I need random albums

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Questions / Combining my 3 smart playlists into one

« on: November 21, 2023, 01:19:11 PM »

I have 3 playlists that do the same things but for different Artists. They display one random album for that artist.

https://imgur.com/a/llzfbfL screenshot, i tried with img tags and also following instructions from help but both ways don't show the image, so here is a link to the screenshot of my smart playlist for the first artist

I was wondering is there a way to have a smart playlist that display one random album for each specified artist? So instead of 1 album on the smart playlist, it shows 3 - a random album for each of the 3 specified artists?

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Questions / Re: Add-On to Skip Songs?

« on: April 09, 2023, 08:41:14 AM »

thanks, what does "or filter" mean? can that be applied to any playing playlist? or each playlist must be edited for that?

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Questions / Add-On to Skip Songs?

« on: March 23, 2023, 04:21:04 PM »

hi, is there any add on that can skip tracks based on some tag info - for example keywords in the track title?

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Questions / Re: Bookmarking spots in a music file?

« on: February 01, 2023, 04:26:59 AM »

Have a look at CUE sheets: https://www.thewelltemperedcomputer.com/KB/CueSheet.htm

interesting, thanks.. so this is something that must be done by hand?

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Questions / Re: Show History as Albums (or make a playlist that can do it?)

« on: February 01, 2023, 04:25:17 AM »

@Dalinar:
You can create an auto-playlist, see this screenshot.
Just adjust the limit (25 in my example) to your preference.

I have implemented it as per your screenshot. Works great. I'm wondering though why limiting it is necessary? If I uncheck the limit then the results look pretty much random or at least not related to what I'm trying to do. It works even better if I change it from limiting tracks to albums.

I definitely would have been stumped by the Play Count > 0 bit

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Questions / Re: Show History as Albums (or make a playlist that can do it?)

« on: February 01, 2023, 04:18:05 AM »

@Dalinar:
You can create an auto-playlist, see this screenshot.
Just adjust the limit (25 in my example) to your preference.

thanks! I will check it out

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Questions / Re: Smart Playlist Request:

« on: February 01, 2023, 04:16:40 AM »

well I just figured someone who was experienced with musicbee would know how to do it.

something that might take someone 5 minutes to write in a message might take me an hour to try to figure out, there are a lot of settings available.

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Questions / Bookmarking spots in a music file?

« on: January 29, 2023, 05:28:08 AM »

Is there a way to tag for future reference (maybe make notes too) a spot within a music file? I mean bookmark a time or at least mark a time.

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Questions / Show History as Albums (or make a playlist that can do it?)

« on: January 10, 2023, 07:45:27 PM »

Hi, is there a way to view History in terms of Albums,  not songs?

OR

Can I make a separate playlist tab view, whatever you call those tab things, to put next to my History tab that would show me the most recent songs I have played (as Albums) ?