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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Expandable View in the Artwork layout

« on: June 04, 2014, 07:30:26 PM »

for the first i wont implement that as it would mean MusicBee having to wait until the 2nd click (which can be up to 0.5 sec) before being sure you are not double clicking so able to open the expanded panel
for the second, the behavior is as configured in the Now Playing preferences which you should be able to change as you request. Trying that now its working fine

Fair play. Sometimes we mere civilians ask for the impossible from developers. 

I see how changing the 'Play Now' action setting affects the double-clicking in expanded view, but wouldn't it make more sense to link the behaviour in the expanded view to the 'action when adding tracks using double-click and quick tracks' settings just above that?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Expandable View in the Artwork layout

« on: June 04, 2014, 06:41:47 PM »

I might be missing something but I have two things I'd rather change via a settings option:
- When I double-click an album in artwork view so that it is being queued, when the expanded view is not active, I don't see the point of the expanded view popping up.
- When I double-click on a single track in the expanded view, rather than it activating 'play now' and thus clear my list and start playback, I'd like the option of queue next or queue last like you can configure for double-clicking in other views.

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Questions / Re: Musicbee's handling of year format in tags

« on: January 04, 2014, 08:58:30 PM »

that's not what you said in your original post

I have the year tags of my mp3s formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, as well as the Episode Date tag (used as Release Date in iTunes).
Musicbee is set to write ID3v2.4 tags as well as ID3v1

My bad. I've changed it hoping it would solve Musicbee´s erratic tagging behaviour but it doesn't.

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Questions / Re: Musicbee's handling of year format in tags

« on: January 04, 2014, 01:54:07 AM »

the TYER and TDAT tags are a different issue altogether. It's because you are also writing ID3v1 tags. Up until ID3v2.3 the date and year was written in these two separate tags, only changing to a combined tag in ID3v2.4

I'm only writing as ID3v2.4. The 'also save id3v1 tags' option is unchecked.

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Questions / Re: Musicbee's handling of year format in tags

« on: January 03, 2014, 09:09:50 PM »

Little update; When I rescan all the files when the short date setting in Windows is set to yyyy-mm-dd it does show the dates like e..g 2013-01-04.

So I thought, great. Now Musicbee has picked this up. I change back to d-m-yyyy again, but if I add a new track to the library the year tag will show up in the d-m-yyyy format (e.g. 4-1-2013) again in the file/tag window as well as in the main browser.

I just want Musicbee to display the year tags as they are formatted within the tag field, ignoring the Windows date settings, as well as respecting the original date format when updating a track's tags.

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Questions / Re: Musicbee's handling of year format in tags

« on: January 03, 2014, 08:51:09 PM »

You can create a virtual tag with the $Date function to display the year in whatever format you want.  

This doesn´t change the way the tags are written though, right? I'll get problems within other programmes when it writes the date as dd-mm-yy hh:mm

So what's your Windows' short date format setting? I'm sure MB uses the setting.

Since there´s no solution to this I had to resort to changing the short date format setting in Windows, but even this doesn't seem to make a difference.
I´ve set it to 2014-01-03 now and still Musicbee shows the date formatted as 1-1-2014.

Please, can anybody help me out?

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Skins / Re: DarkRED (based on Metro)

« on: January 03, 2014, 02:14:43 AM »

You have to change them manually. I'm using:

Main player:
Segoe UI Light 16pt

Compact Player:
Segoe UI Light 20pt (track)
Segoe UI Bold 10pt (artist)
Segoe UI Regular 9pt (album)

Mini Player:
Segoe UI Regular 11pt (track)
Segoe UI Regular 8pt (artist)

Ah, cheers!

One more question/request. I liked the way the progress bar options in Layout (2) worked in Red Flat. Any chance you could make the Metro version compatible with those settings? I like to use the "progress bar in middle" option since it makes the progress bar more compact. Would be great to have best of both worlds with the colours of Metro and the progress bar options from Flat. Of course, releasing the different colourways as Flat versions would be much easier.

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Skins / Re: DarkRED (based on Metro)

« on: January 02, 2014, 10:51:40 PM »

The title text in the main player panel in my Musicbee doesn't use the font in the screenshots. What am I doing wrong?

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Questions / Re: Musicbee's handling of year format in tags

« on: December 14, 2013, 04:10:15 PM »

I've had a little search around the forum and it seems this problem has been discussed before.

http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=2552.msg13133#msg13133

In this topic Steven says he would make a change to preserve the original year format if it differs from the Windows regional settings. So why doesn't this work in Musicbee 2.3?

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Questions / Re: Musicbee's handling of year format in tags

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:19:05 PM »

So what's your Windows' short date format setting? I'm sure MB uses the setting.

It's set to D-M-Y that's correct. Still, I don't see why Musicbee should use that setting rather than just displaying the dates as they are formatted in the ID3 tags.

Moreover, why does Musicbee feel the need to update tag fields which aren't being edited in the tag editor window?

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Questions / Musicbee's handling of year format in tags

« on: December 10, 2013, 02:29:04 PM »

This is a major annoyance and completely ruins my Musicbee experience.

I have the year tags of my mp3s formatted as YYYY-MM-DD, as well as the Episode Date tag (used as Release Date in iTunes).
Musicbee is set to write ID3v2.4 tags as well as ID3v1

Whenever I update a tag of a file with the year tag formatted as YYYY-MM-DD Musicbee does the following:
Changes Year (TDRC) tag to (D)D-(M)M-YYYY (e.g. 1-11-2010 or 14-2-2007)
Adds another Year (TYER) tag to the file
Adds a Date tag (TDAT) tag to the file
Changes Episode Date (TDRL) to (D)D-(M)M-YYYY 00:00 (e.g. 1-11-2010 00:00 or 14-2-2007 00:00)

Why on earth does Musicbee feel inclined to update all these tags even if I don't alter any of them, but only for example the comment field?

Please, for the love of God. Can you change this so Musicbee respects the original year handling and used tags of the file?

I just want my TDRC and TDRL to stay in the DD-MM-YYYY (e.g. 2013-04-08) without having it being updated whenever I update any other tag of one of my music files.

On a related note, how can you change that year in the sorting fields etc. also is being displayed in the YYYY-MM-DD format instead of the very annoying (D)D-(M)M-YYYY format?

I'm using Musicbee version 2.3.5082.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Touchpad gestures

« on: October 15, 2013, 05:47:14 PM »

I have gestures on my touchpad which work in virtually every program. When you swipe with three fingers to the left (back) or right (forward) it goes back or forward. It works in Windows Explorer, every internet browser and a host of other programs.

Is it possible to add this kind of support to Musicbee? Would be useful for going back and forward in the music browser in Artwork view. E.g. You click on a cover to see an album, then swipe back to go back to all music.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Tag Inspector for multiple files?

« on: November 05, 2012, 08:41:32 PM »

It's on the Musicbee 2.1 topic... but it hasn't been updated. I know Steven has said that this would be a major undertaking. But +1 on this (frankly long overdue) request.

Great. Where is this topic? I tried search but couldn't find a topic related to version 2.1

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Tag Inspector for multiple files?

« on: November 05, 2012, 07:04:07 PM »

I wanted to post exactly the same request. It would make cleaning up tags per album a lot easier as not all possible tags are covered by the tag editor.