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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Auto-Tag by Track from the Album Covers view

« on: January 04, 2024, 07:59:36 AM »

You can assign keyboard shortcuts to each of the auto-tagging commands:



So you could select your album then press the shortcut to access the commands you need without having to twice change views.

Not ideal since I need to remember the extra shortcuts, but very nice that it works out of the box. Thanks for the tip!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Auto-Tag by Track from the Album Covers view

« on: January 03, 2024, 01:37:53 PM »

You could have a tab for the view you like (album covers view) and keep it pinned and fully locked. Then create another tab with your "editing" view (track details.) Pin that one also and perhaps also add the navigation lock. Then you have both views - one for listening and one for editing.

The problem then is that both views would not be synchronized. I would need to reproduce my search query or navigator selection from one tab to the next to have the same track selection. I think it would make the experience worse than switching between 2 views within the same tab.

To be clear, this is clearly a niche issue only worth looking into if adding the Auto-Tag by Track option to the album covers view makes sense to people and is an easy thing to implement.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Auto-Tag by Track from the Album Covers view

« on: January 03, 2024, 12:14:06 PM »

My library is usually in Album Covers view. If I want to update tags (e.g. from filename) or lyrics of tracks, I cannot do this from the Album Covers view unless I click on an album and select the tracks manually. This also prevents me from updating the tags for several albums at once. The current workaround I have to be able to batch update tags or lyrics is to change the view to Tracks view, make the changes, then switch back to Album Covers view.

I believe it would make sense to have the Auto-Tag by Track option available in the Album Covers view. It would simply apply the tag/lyric update to all tracks in all albums selected.

Here are 2 screenshots showing the Auto-Tag options, in case anything is unclear let me know.

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 07, 2023, 03:44:10 PM »

Code refactoring, bug fixes, UI/UX improvements:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/h2t08o9562efboi/mb_TagTools_latest.zip/file

full plugin package:

https://www.mediafire.com/file/b8spddpp2oymr3x/Additional-Tagging-Tools-Plugin.new.zip/file

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I've ran into a crash, reproducible both with the 05.12.2023 version and the one from the 11.04.2023. It happens why I try to create a Library Report for my entire library (59k tracks, 4k albums).

i'm not able to reproduce this, but i think i've fixed this issue.

Can confirm the update fixed the issue. Thanks!

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging & Reporting Tools

« on: December 06, 2023, 12:44:29 PM »

I've ran into a crash, reproducible both with the 05.12.2023 version and the one from the 11.04.2023. It happens why I try to create a Library Report for my entire library (59k tracks, 4k albums).



Full log is as follows:

Code

MusicBee v3.5.8698.34385D  (Win10.0), 6 Dec 2023 13:39:

System.InvalidOperationException: Sum of the columns' FillWeight values cannot exceed 65535.
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.MarshaledInvoke(Control caller, Delegate method, Object[] args, Boolean synchronous)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method, Object[] args)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.Invoke(Delegate method)
   at MusicBeePlugin.LibraryReportsCommand.applyOnlyGroupingsPresetResults(String[] queriedFiles, Boolean interactive, Int32 sequenceNumberGrouping, Nullable`1 filterResults)
   at MusicBeePlugin.LibraryReportsCommand.executePreset(String[] queriedFiles, Boolean interactive, Boolean saveResultsToTags, String functionId, Nullable`1 filterResults)
   at MusicBeePlugin.LibraryReportsCommand.previewTrackList()
   at MusicBeePlugin.PluginWindowTemplate.serializedOperation()
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

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MusicBee Wishlist / Click on Genre in Track Information to see the genre in the library

« on: November 21, 2023, 06:40:19 PM »

I know the Track information panel's Artist and Album rows can be clicked to show the album or the artist in the main panel. I've been wishing for a way  to do the same with other tags displayed in the Track information panel, for example the Genre(s) or any other tag the user has put there. Ideally one could even click genres individually, if more than one is displayed.

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Questions / Click on Genre in Track Information to see the genre in the library?

« on: November 21, 2023, 10:24:23 AM »

I know the Track information panel's Artist and Album rows can be clicked to show the album or the artist in the main panel. I've been wondering if it was possible to do the same with other tags displayed in the Track information panel, for example the Genre(s). It doesn't look to be possible with the way I've set up the Track information, but perhaps I missed an option somewhere?



Edit: Crossposted to the wishlist, this topic can be removed. https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=40266.0

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Bug Reports / Re: Auto-DJ stuck in a loop of playing the same albums

« on: October 22, 2023, 05:41:05 PM »

Are you sure that this is a bug? Can you give us steps to reproduce consistently?

Does this always happen or only when these artists are playing? The only way I could reproduce something similar was to play some pretty obscure music which, with the settings you have in the auto DJ configuration, results in a very small pool of tracks to select from in my library (and therefore produces repeat selections).
Perhaps try reducing the Last FM % similarity setting (which may increase the possible matches - I am not sure)

Also, to prevent repeats you could try reducing the number of tracks in the initial list and upcoming settings, along with applying a custom filter with a rule <Last Played> is not in the last 2hrs (or something similar).

And, maybe more out of curiosity, I see that you have 'Selection Mode: random - select by' set to <Album + Genre>. I assume this is a virtual tag -  could you detail the formula for this tag.

I guess it's not exactly a bug, more a not-ideal-behaviour. For now I've only seen it happen with the artists shown.

Using <Last Played> is a good idea, but would it work, given that when MusicBee generates the queue the songs have not been played yet?

Album + Genre is defined quite simply as <Album> <Genres>. I could use <Album> here as well, the point is just to shuffle albums and not single tracks.

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Bug Reports / Auto-DJ stuck in a loop of playing the same albums

« on: October 20, 2023, 08:19:59 AM »

I noticed that the queue created by Auto-DJ was alternating between 2 albums, repeating the same few songs and albums over and over. I could fix this by changing the "gap before the same artist can play", but I like having different albums of the same artist play. I think here it's more about excluding albums already in the queue from being added to the queue again.

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Questions / Re: MusicBee only displays one genre in "Playing Tracks"

« on: February 06, 2022, 06:12:31 PM »

Ah, thank you! Now I see it, and it works.

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Questions / [SOLVED] MusicBee only displays one genre in "Playing Tracks"

« on: February 03, 2022, 04:41:02 PM »

MusicBee only displays one genre in "Playing Tracks", even if I set it to display the tag "Genres", which to my understanding should contain all of them (see picture). Am I missing something?



I saw this thread that is somewhat related: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=30762.0

Should I create a virtual tag to concatenate the genres?

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Bug Reports / Re: Scrolling freezes MusicBee if it takes too long

« on: April 08, 2021, 12:33:00 PM »

Oh, I didn't know there was an option like that. Thank you!

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Bug Reports / Scrolling freezes MusicBee if it takes too long

« on: April 07, 2021, 10:04:37 AM »

Scrolling forward or backward in a song takes an unusually long time (up to 1mn), freezing MusicBee's interface in the process. I tested this on MP3 and FLAC files. The reason for it is most likely that my files are on a remote server that I am accessing through a fairly slow WiFi. This does not happen when the files are stored locally. Still, I do not think the whole interface should be frozen, since it causes Windows to prompt the user to close the process.

Windows 10 x64, MusicBee 3.4.7764

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Questions / Re: Bulk replace a list of tags

« on: June 20, 2020, 05:21:27 PM »

I like to have control over my tags and many of them aren't in Picard, so that's not an option either. I've managed to reverse engineer Foobar's Masstagger and wrote a ruby script that can write generate a masstagger script automatically from a text file, without having to use the interface where you'd have to manually add the pairs one by one.

I've uploaded the code here, for the curious. It's very crude, but it works and might be useful to others.

How it looks after loading the generated script:

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Questions / Re: Bulk replace a list of tags

« on: June 20, 2020, 01:20:07 PM »

Here's a better example that shows you why I can't do it one by one:



These are pairs of tags I want to search & replace everywhere.