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General Discussions / Re: I want open my musicbee.

« on: March 19, 2024, 08:54:10 PM »

A thing i learned with the chromecast plugin to work properly, is to launch Musicbee as administrator.
Maybe it can help.

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Questions / Re: Error message when loving a track

« on: February 02, 2024, 01:29:22 PM »

Thank you Steven.
I re-enabled the plugin, unticked "synchronise loved tracks", and disabled the plugin again.
All fine now.

 

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Questions / [Solved] Error message when loving a track

« on: February 02, 2024, 03:11:17 AM »

Hi, i got this error message box whenever i love a track:

"Musicbee update on last.fm failed: invalid username/password"

I have disabled the Last.fm scrobble plugin, so i don't know what to do to avoid this error.
I don't use Last.fm anymore, but still use the "love" feature.

The tracks are still loved, but the error message is annoying.
I tried to disable <-> enable the plugin, erase the login/password fields.

Any tips / idea ?  

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Plugins / Re: ScrobblerBrainz: a plug-in to scrobble tracks to ListenBrainz

« on: January 29, 2024, 06:19:48 PM »

Nice to hear ^^
Thank you

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Would like to be able to tag and organize artists

« on: January 29, 2024, 03:33:21 PM »

+1 if only to avoid using workarounds for:

- Manage different artists who have the same name.
- Manage similar artists who operate under different names.
(like Aphex Twin for example)

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Plugins / Re: ScrobblerBrainz: a plug-in to scrobble tracks to ListenBrainz

« on: January 29, 2024, 12:58:13 AM »

I was wondering... would it be possible to sync the "loved" tracks between MusicBee and ListenBrainz via the API? Is that something you're planning to implement?

Eventually, yes.

Hello, i just quit the Last FM scrobbling to test the ListenBrainz one, and discovered your plugin, for which i thank you
Still no plan to implement the "loved" track feature ?  

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Sort: leave entries for which the tag is empty at the bottom of the lists

« on: January 28, 2024, 04:00:35 PM »

Hi Acoustics,

This is something you can work out yourself with virtual tags.
Idk how many years ago Steven introduced them, but they were surely a game changer - there's almost always a virtual tag solution to most MusicBee problems.

Try out this formula for instance (copy it as it is bcoz there's a zero-width character in there that we cannot see).

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$IsNull(<Album>,[Unknown],​<Album>)

This is kinda the workaround i used.
I wanted to get rid of the unsightly appearance of [Unknown] and instead having an empty space.
I know it's not the issue raised here, but for informational purposes, here is what it looks like.



The first lines (those with big numbers) are the [Unknown] values, but "masked".
Just use the same virtual tag formula as Mayibongwe, but with an empty value:

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$IsNull(<Album>," ",​<Album>)

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Simple Edition

« on: January 28, 2024, 02:38:20 PM »

What i don't understand is that MusicBee can easily be used as a simple dumbed-down player.
Just... don't use what you don't need to use.
Leave it by its default settings.

Put music in it and play it.

I really don't get it.

When i read OP's other topic:

I just want to use my old  MusicBee MP3 playlists and keep making new ones.  No need for skins, etc.

My guess would be that OP can't express its real needs.
Saying "No need for skins" is like saying "No need for the History channels" on your TV... just don't watch them.

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Questions / Re: Associate video clips

« on: January 07, 2024, 01:14:17 AM »

Code

file:///$RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace(<URL>,"Fichiers","Clips"),.flac,.mp4),.mp3,.mp4),%3A,:),%E2%80%A4,)

By replacing the fake dot with nothing, it works.
I will just remove them where they appear, on my target video folders.

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Questions / Re: Associate video clips

« on: January 06, 2024, 08:00:06 PM »

ThY - I have no response to the fake point issue at the moment but I might have a play around if I can find some time.

I think i will just try to replace it with nothing, then i will adjust the change in my video clips folders' names. (i just don't want to change the fake point on audio files folders' names)
So with something like this ?

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$RxReplace(<URL>,%E2%80%A4,"")

I don't know if it will work.

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Questions / Re: Associate video clips

« on: January 06, 2024, 02:24:55 PM »

I will give it some time, and see if someone can come with a solution or a clue. Maybe Steven if he passes by.
I'll search for workarounds in the meantime.

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Questions / Re: Associate video clips

« on: January 06, 2024, 03:33:16 AM »

Ok i met a new issue.
Some of my folders are organised using a special character replacing the classic "point".
(classic point on the left, fake point on the right)

Code

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It allows me to have folders whose name can finish with a point (a fake one in this case), for artists like "O.N.A.", "Boney M.", "P.O.D.", ...
I really don't want to change that because all of my organisation is based on this nomenclature.

My problem here is with the custom link, it doesn't work anymore when a folder or a file contains the fake point.
Here are the informations about this special character.

The error displayed by Musicbee shows indeed the fake point as

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%E2%80%A4

How can i modify my successful

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file:///$RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace(<URL>,"Fichiers","Clips"),.flac,.mp4),%3A,:)

to counter this fake point's encoding ?

The following doesn't work  

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file:///$RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace(<URL>,"Fichiers","Clips"),.flac,.mp4),%3A,:),%E2%80%A4,․)

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Questions / Re: Associate video clips

« on: January 06, 2024, 02:28:08 AM »

Thanks for all the replies.  
I did some tests with the "custom web links" feature, and here is what i discovered:

Using

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file:///$RxReplace(<URL>,"^(.*?\\)Fichiers musicaux","$1Clips musicaux")

as a web-link works only on the preview in the template editor; but as soon as i test the link in the track info panel, it doesn't work.
I can notice on the error window that it had not achieved the regex and still display "Fichiers" in the url, instead of "Clips".

For it to do the expected folder's name replacement, i simplified the regex with a simple string, but i still use the $RxReplace function

Code

file:///$RxReplace(<URL>,"Fichiers","Clips")

But it still doesn't fully work because every special characters are badly encoded in the end.
So i had my function which replace my folder's name and the file's extension:

Code

file:///$RxReplace($RxReplace(<URL>,"Fichiers","Clips"),.flac,.mp4)

Then i thought having to make several nested replacements for every special characters, like this:

file:///$RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace(<URL>,"Fichiers","Clips"),.flac,.mp4),%3A,:),%2F,/),%20," "),%5C,\),%28,"("),%29,")"),%27,')

But apparently, doing the replacement only for the first encountered special character (a colon in my case), was enough for it to "decode" every following other special characters.
So with this code,

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file:///$RxReplace($RxReplace($RxReplace(<URL>,"Fichiers","Clips"),.flac,.mp4),%3A,:)

it seems to work for any other following encountered common things, like spaces, brackets, comma, semicolon and parentheses
And as it was noticed on this thread, it doesn't work with $Replace, even if you don't use a "real" regex.

I hope i was understandable enough, english is not my first language.

Thanks all for the help

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Questions / Re: Associate video clips

« on: January 05, 2024, 10:22:17 AM »

Hello Phred, i had already read this thread.

As i explained in my edited post above, i successfully produced a local clickable url in the track panel information.
Although, i would like to produce the same thing through the "custom web links" feature of Musicbee.
Just because the link is more elegant.

But maybe there is a way to dress up a clickable URL behind a more elegant text ?
Like this !

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Questions / Re: Associate video clips

« on: January 05, 2024, 01:27:29 AM »

Digging up my own topic.
Is there a way to successfully open a local file through the web links showing in the track info panel ?

EDIT:
To explain further.
I try to generate a link to a video file.
It is done through this formula:

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$Replace($Replace($RxReplace(<URL>,"^(.*?\\)Fichiers musicaux","$1Clips musicaux"),.flac,.mp4),\,/)

It is based on the url of the audio file, and change the main folder's name and the file's extension. (so i can watch the video clip of the song)



I can make it work with custom and virtual tags, and make a clickable url link in the track info panel. (1),
But when i use the same generated link through the web link feature (2), it doesn't work; certainly because of the special characters (like spaces, parentheses, slash, backslash, ...).
I suppose the web link feature uses a forced web protocol or something ?

I would like to use the web link feature (2) because it is more aesthetical.
But another problem with this feature is that i can't set a condition to make the link appear or not; which is not a problem with the (1)

Even if i type the (true non-dynamically generated) URL of the local video file, in a custom tag, and then i use this tag alone in a custom web link, it won't work because the web link seems to replace special characters (like spaces with %20)
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