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Bug Reports / Re: Excessive CPU Usage
« on: October 03, 2020, 07:26:45 PM »
Thank you !

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Bug Reports / Re: Excessive CPU Usage
« on: October 03, 2020, 07:26:16 PM »
omg, it was DNLA, I overlooked it in the preferences/Plugins section. Disabling it dropped musicbee to 0.1% while playing FLAC. RAM is still at 1GB but I don't care since I have 32GB available and rarely even get close to maxing that.

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Bug Reports / Re: Excessive CPU Usage
« on: October 03, 2020, 07:21:34 PM »
Yep, Musicbee just spiked to 85% again while playing an album. Stayed like that for 30 seconds, dropped to 10% for 3 seconds, then jumped back to 80%.

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Bug Reports / Re: Excessive CPU Usage
« on: October 03, 2020, 07:12:50 PM »
Before posting, I did search for similar issues but I didn't see anything that quite matched my issue. I'm pretty sure I don't have the DNLA plugin and I don't stream music. I have all FLAC and searched the plugin folder for "DNLA" which found nothing.

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Bug Reports / Excessive CPU Usage
« on: October 03, 2020, 07:08:37 PM »
Historically (at least 8 years) I haven't had an issue with Musicbee and CPU usage. I have a 9900k and Musicbee, even without music playing, is using tons of resources. Often peaking at 90% which is 100%ing my CPU since I always have other stuff running.
I cannot play games at all with musicbee running anymore. I first noticed this issue 3 weeks ago, I updated Musicbee to "3.3.7491 P" in hopes that would help.

Just as I'm writing this, Musicbee dropped to only 20% usage without music playing. It's also using 1.3GB of ram, which I don't care about too much, but not ideal. I just resumed the music, and after like 30 seconds the usage dropped to 11% while playing FLAC. I don't know what Musicbee is doing in the background and I'm pretty sure it'll start doing it again.

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Tips and Tricks / Re: Search for Cover with Album Art Downloader
« on: May 08, 2020, 09:59:25 PM »
Nice app... am wondering if it is capable for me to add SoundCloud on the searching for Cover... and is it possible to make it to embed the picture on the file

You can use Musicbee to embed the art into the file. I usually find the highest res cover I can, then shrink it down to around 600x600 or 700x700 pixels, save as 'tiny.jpg', then embed 'tiny.jpg' into the file using dbpoweramps ID Tag editor app.

I make the tiny file from the high res instead of downloading an additional lower res cover so that they perfectly match.
Musicbee by default cycles through showing you the cover art from the folder and the embeded art. I have since changed this so Musicbee only shows the Cover.jpg files but I continued this embed process since my server and my phone use the embeded art from the flac files.

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Hey sveakul, Probably wouldn't have mentioned this but your list of external apps is full and I don't want you to be limited. You can add a button to your toolbar to open the selected track on Explorer without adding explorer as an external app.
Dang if it don't! Thanks EnduringGuerila, missed that one for sure! NOW to find that new tool.. 8)

Lol, glad to help

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Hey sveakul,
Probably wouldn't have mentioned this but your list of external apps is full and I don't want you to be limited.

You can add a button to your toolbar to open the selected track on Explorer without adding explorer as an external app.




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I just tested Picard and it seems to work fine with the parameters set as "<URL>"
Thanks for recommending Spek, just added it.


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Skins / Re: Dark and Brown Guerila Skin
« on: April 08, 2019, 07:08:33 PM »
V1.4 out

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Tips and Tricks / Wirelessly Sync Music to Android Device
« on: March 19, 2019, 10:11:08 PM »
This tutorial uses the Android App SMBSync2

Directions:
If you know how or already have your files shared on the network, SKIP TO STEP 7


1. To start, you must share your music over the local network
    Open Windows Settings,
    Network & Internet,
    On the left panel click either Wifi or Ethernet based on how you are connected to your router,
    Click the name of the network you are connected to,
    make sure Network Profile is set to Private not Public



2. Most likely you will need to enable SMB, follow THIS GUIDE (click here)


3. Open Advanced Sharing Settings (you can just type 'sharing' into the windows start menu to find this quickly)
    Under the Private section [should say "(current profile)" next to Private now]
    Turn on 'Network Discovery' and 'File and Printer Sharing'



4. Under All Networks section
    Turn on 'Public Folder Sharing' and I prefer to turn off 'Password Protected Sharing' since I trust everyone with access to my network and it makes sharing much easier




5. Next you're going to start sharing your folders over the network
    In Windows File Explorer, right click the music folder you wish to share and click 'Properties'
    Navigate to the Sharing tab and click 'Advanced Sharing'



6. Mark the checkbox next to 'Share this folder'
    Set the 'Share Name:' to whatever you want
    Click Permissions at the bottom left
    Make sure 'Everyone' is set to allow Read but NOT allow "Change" or "Full Control"
    Next you can add your username and grant yourself Full Control permissions when you remotely connect
    

(sorry the gif is a little fast, gyazo limited the size so I had to rush haha)


Now onto your Android Device





edit: I made a Pastebin here of my task backup which can be imported into your SMBSync2 if you want to attempt to save a little time. Just save as a .txt file anywhere on your phone, click the 3 dots at the top right of SMBSync2 to open the menu, click 'Import task list' and select the .txt file. This is not going to just work right out of the box so you'll have to follow the guide anyway.


7. Open SMBSync2 on your Android Device
    Add a new Task at the bottom left
    set 'Sync Type' to 'Mirror'
    click the field below 'Master Folder'
    set 'Folder Type' to 'SMB Server'

7A. click 'Search SMB Server'
      if you know your local ip, you can just type it here to make the search quicker, if not just leave .1-.254 click Search at the bottom right
      I set my router to use 192.168.53.XXX but for most of you it will be 192.168.0.XXX or 192.168.1.XXX

7B. Select your PC, I recommend clicking the Domain name instead of the IP address since most router assign local IP addresses randomly and the IP will change based on the routers setting for when IPs expire. I manually set a static IP for a few of my devices

7C. If you set your username on the Windows Folder share to have Full Control Read/Write Permissions this is where you type your PC login info

7D. Click 'List Share' to select the Folder/Drive from your PC

7E. I have an entire drive being shared as 'I-Music' but you can just select the folder you shared

7F. If you want to only sync subfolders of the root folder you shared from your PC, this is where you select the folder. As stated before, I am sharing my entire drive so I select the music folder here

7G. The folder I am syncing
Skip 7F and 7G if you are syncing the entire directory you selected in the 'SMB Share'

If you encounter any issues connecting to your PC, try switching the SMB Protocol between SMBv1, SMBv2.01 and SMBv2.11
      


8. Click the field below 'Target Folder'
    Navigate to where you want the music to be saved on your Android device
    Most of you will probably save to your SD card, I have the 512GB Note 9 so I am saving to my internal storage

9. Here are my settings:

I have this setup to make a perfect copy of my music folder. Anything that changes on my PC is updated on my phone.
If I change something on my phone and rerun the sync, it'll just be overwritten and the change will be undone since it wasn't changed on my PC. You can check 'Do not overwrite destination file if newer than source file if you do not want the same
I recommend using temp files (as unchecked at the very bottom) because partial files are annoying and I constantly stop the sync in the middle of a transfer. This also helps with really large syncs that might fail in the middle.




10. You can modify some of the settings as you see fit and even setup an automatic sync to go every night or something and tell the task not to run if your phone isn't charging. I highly recommend setting 'Wifi Status' to 'Access Point List' and selecting your wifi name so the sync will not attempt to run when you are not connected to your home wifi where your PC is...

I just sync manually when I get new music or modify any of my existing music


Tasks can also be made to backup other files like your pictures from your phone to your PC or whatever else you can imagine wirelessly transferring can be done similarly.


Let me know if I missed any steps or need to explain anything better in the post.
Feel free to ask any questions you have, I'll try my best to help


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Skins / Re: Dark and Brown Guerila Skin
« on: March 19, 2019, 10:53:57 AM »
I have actually requested the developers of Album Art Downloader to add a dark theme to their app, we'll see if it ever happens.

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Skins / Re: Dark and Brown Guerila Skin
« on: March 19, 2019, 10:23:34 AM »
In which folder should I shift ' Dark and Brown Guerila (1.3) .xml ' file in?

Sorry, I mentioned it when I uploaded it to the Addons section but forgot to mention it here.

Just place it anywhere in your '/MusicBee/Skins/'  folder or a sub folder within the Skins folder


Mine is
I:\MusicBee\Skins\Dark and Brown Guerila.xml

Yours might be
C:\Program Files (x86)\MusicBee\Skins\CommunitySkins\Dark and Brown Guerila.xml


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Tips and Tricks / Search for Cover with Album Art Downloader
« on: March 19, 2019, 09:15:43 AM »
https://sourceforge.net/projects/album-art/

I thoroughly love this cover search software.

Search Preview:
https://i.gyazo.com/b77c1882d4b8e40edd887a8948f90296.png


I setup:
A toolbar button in Musicbee that, based on the selected track, searches the artist and album in Album Art Downloader






Directions:

1. Open MusicBee Preferences and select the "Tools" tab



2. add the application path (mine is C:\Program Files\AlbumArtDownloader\AlbumArt.exe) {just click the button on the right side with three dots then navigate to the exe file}

3. Make sure you set the parameters to: "<Artist>"  "<Album>"



4. click Save


---- You can stop at this point and just right click the file and use the "Send To" feature ----




If you wish to add the toolbar button as I did:

5. Right click your toolbar then "Configure Toolbar"




6. Click the plus sign to add a new button command



7. click the three dots and Set the command to the "Send To: External Application (selected file) [your #]"

Mine was #3 because Audition and MediaInfo were apps 1 and 2...



If you like my dark theme, feel free to try it (Click Here)

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Skins / Dark and Brown Guerila Skin
« on: March 19, 2019, 09:10:28 AM »
I made a dark theme and thought I'd share it.

Skin Download Page
Github
Pastebin
Mediafire

2227 Downloads as of April 8, 2019

Let me know if you have any issues or recommendations here.


Changelog:
v1.4 replaced bright splash screen
v1.3 years ago, a lot changed...

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