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Questions / Re: Update paths option please

« on: March 03, 2022, 10:23:13 PM »

I used your advice from the other thread and it worked fine . thanks so much

I'm not meaning to waste anyone's time Frank.  I'm busy too and time got away from me simple as that .  I've tried deleting the paths and they just come right back again when I bring up the dialog box. 

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Questions / Re: Update paths option please

« on: March 03, 2022, 02:48:50 PM »

Sadly I had so much going on with other aspects of life I didn't do as you directed  I'll try that today.  BUT still why when these paths are removed does the program rewrite them in every time the dialog is dismissed and then brought back up?  There must be a way to blank those out (and have them remain so) so they are not a constant pain in my side. 

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Questions / Update paths option please

« on: March 03, 2022, 03:30:57 AM »

Hi

I think I asked this before but I need to ask again.  WHAT file does this info reside in for the Relink Music File Paths?  I've found a couple of .ini files but there is nothing in them about this.  Every time I want to redirect my older playlist to the new location I get this, below, filled in so I have to delete all of those filled in, useless paths so I can proceed.  It keeps me from really getting things done with rerouting these playlists as it's so annoying.

Every time I dismiss the panel and then bring it back up to put in some new edited paths those older paths are put back in EVERY SINGLE TIME

ANNOYING!

So it would be nice to know if there is a way to tell MusicBee to FORGET those paths and if not then an editable file to delete them once and for all

Thanks so much!

Richard

It's a link to download and look at the image.  I'm not having ANY luck with IMGUR using the Insert Image tool here!  AND the code here is really weird, I went to edit the post and it was all messed up and wouldn't let me save it so I had to Cancel, Copy the text and Delete the post and start over!  Grrrrrrrrr Here is the direct link to the image file from my IMGUR

https://imgur.com/a/tCCtoKS

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Questions / Relink Music File Path issue

« on: March 03, 2022, 03:23:27 AM »

Hi

I think I asked this before but I need to ask again.  WHAT file does this info reside in for the Relink Music File Paths?  I've found a couple of .ini files but there is nothing in them about this.  Every time I want to redirect my older playlist to the new location I get this, below, filled in so I have to delete all of those filled in, useless paths so I can proceed.  It keeps me from really getting things done with rerouting these playlists as it's so annoying. 

Every time I dismiss the panel and then bring it back up to put in some new edited paths those older paths are put back in EVERY SINGLE TIME

ANNOYING! 

So it would be nice to know if there is a way to tell MusicBee to FORGET those paths and if not then an editable file to delete them once and for all

Thanks so much! 

Richard

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Questions / Re: Still not getting my paths corrected

« on: February 07, 2022, 07:15:30 PM »

So getting the hang of updating the paths, it's going to be a long road but at least I have all my other settings for the tracks still in place so it will be worth it in the long run.

My only other question about this is (since I can't upload an image here) where are the settings for the "Relink Music File Paths" stored so I can go in there and manually remove all the paths that are stored as they are irrelevant and having to remove those every single time I go to update another path is just wasting my time. 

I know that selecting and hitting the delete key is simple enough but when you have such a huge library as I do and only doing a path at a time when I need to remap each playlist is getting on my nerves having to constantly delete paths from the other 4 input boxes EVERY time I bring up that dialog. 

I would think the program would be smart enough to see that those paths are not needed and just leave those blank but NOPE..... they are refilled in every single time I dismiss the dialog! 

Thanks so much,
Richard

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Questions / Re: Still not getting my paths corrected

« on: February 05, 2022, 05:36:02 AM »

OK.  I'll give this a try tomorrow.  I need to hit the  bed. 

THanks so much

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Questions / Re: Still not getting my paths corrected

« on: February 05, 2022, 04:56:35 AM »

Hi.  So if I right click on one of the songs in a playlist there is a tab that shows the path of the song.  So that path, for about half the playlists is pointing to my old Dropbox path and not the Music folder path, the literally sit next to each other at C:\Users\UserName\ so what i need to do then, according to your info is that I need to copy the OLD path to the Relink Music File Paths and then paste in the new permanent path, correct? 

The thing that's probably confusing is that as I mentioned above within the Music folder are sub folders with all the music split into their correct categories but within those folders are the artists folder so example

My Music\Rock\Fleetwood Mac

So not sure if I will have to do this slowly a path at a time or if there is a "ALL IN" solution to point to the new path and have Music Bee do all the heavy lifting. 

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Questions / Re: Still not getting my paths corrected

« on: February 05, 2022, 04:44:26 AM »

OK, so if I go to Edit and look at the paths these playlists are all pointing to the same location but I do have all my music split into appropriate folder like Rock, Dance, Contemporary, Country, New Age and Jazz so not sure if I will need to go by each exact path or just the main path to the Music folder?

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Questions / Re: Still not getting my paths corrected

« on: February 05, 2022, 04:30:25 AM »

My correct paths are in my Music folder on the C drive.  But as stated above SOME of the playlists are still pointing to the C:Dropbox folder (I've shortened up the paths to keep things secure for  the forum).  The strange thing is if I bring up the Relink Music File paths dialog and NONE of those have ever been used for my Music so not sure why those are so weird. 

I did create a screen grab but I guess the server being used for this forum doesn't have room to store images so that's a bust trying to show you.  It allows for three paths, all three paths recorded to this dialog are all incorrect and as mentioned above I've never used those for my Music (like a D drive or an E drive.  BOTH of those drives are for my art project backups so not sure what's going on there. 

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Questions / Still not getting my paths corrected

« on: February 05, 2022, 02:38:25 AM »

So somewhere here on this forum I had an older post.  Can't find it so here I go again.....

I have a new computer.   The paths changed for the music folder slightly and so now Music Bee is giving me play errors.  I've tried all the tricks to get the paths changed one way or the other per playlist but it's not working out very well.  I botched things up all over again thinking that if I "Scan folders for new files" and "Relink Music File paths" all would be well.  NOPE, that just botched things up even more. 

It's very odd though.  SOME of my playlists are linked correctly but about HALF are not and point to my old Dropbox folder where the music files are no longer living.  I think I suggested that it would be NICE if there were a Music Bee  update so one could drag and drop music from a new path and it would bring up a dialog asking if you want to update the file paths for the existing playlist rather than all this trouble.  I have music tagged a certain way, I have customized lyrics (because so many folks don't upload correct or truncated lyrics to the servers that Music Bee accesses) so all that will be lost if I give in and just kill and replace all the playlists that are not pointing to the correct folder. 

I remember one member telling me this is a really complex program but all I use it for is kinda what iTunes is about but I love Music Bee because it has built in and editable lyrics panel and it's got a dark theme option as iTunes is bright white which hurts my eyes.  So I'd love to get this resolved.  If it's not resolvable then just tell me that and I'll bite the bullet and go through my playlists and kill all the ones not pointing correctly and start over I guess. 

Thanks so much,
Richard

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Update paths option please

« on: January 12, 2022, 08:41:11 PM »

To add when I try to update the path to each song in the Edit> Properties tab nothing happens.  So that's no good either.  There must be a way to do this , since this is a wish list forum, have this implemented. 

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Update paths option please

« on: January 12, 2022, 08:22:11 PM »

No and when I tried that all my playlists disappeared so that's no good either!   

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MusicBee Wishlist / Update paths option please

« on: January 12, 2022, 06:11:29 PM »

So I have a new computer and I had to change where allot of what I had on the old rig so the paths in the saved backup for MusicBee is annoying me to no ends here.  It would be nice if you could drag and drop  the songs to the playlist and have an option to update paths to the existing songs already in the playlist. 

I've tried setting the path in the preferences but it's not fixing this issue for me. 

Thank you
Richard

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General Discussions / Re: Need to back up fully, is there a way to do this?

« on: December 08, 2021, 11:55:33 PM »

Hmmm, found the area in the Prefs.  I guess by default it's set for the lyrics to be embedded into the music files.  I selected the "save as an external file.txt" but will that just be for going forward or will the program go through and save all the added lyrics to a text file for safe keeping?

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General Discussions / Re: Need to back up fully, is there a way to do this?

« on: December 08, 2021, 11:51:28 PM »

I apologize.  I'm not very used to working with Tags for the most part.  I know from being a past user of iTunes that there was ways to assign artwork and change bits and pieces of those tags but in that program those were not saved either so I had to start from scratch when I got a new computer.  I have backed up all you mentioned to me to back up and have it now stored on my DropBox for safe keeping until I get the new computer on it's way to being set up. 

By the way, I couldn't find a tool called Tag Editor.  There is a Tagging Tools fly out menu under Tools but looked under that to back up and I did find one backup tool but not sure if that's what I need but used that in any case.  I'll look for the Prefs/Tags(1)/lyrics storage.  If there is a way to save out all the lyrics I've assigned my music I'd be so relieved and if backing up tag info is the magic trick then I'm all in!  LOL