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Questions / Large Album view (Now Playing) Crops album art when using left/right panels

« on: August 14, 2023, 02:41:55 AM »

is there a way to prevent this? you can see in the images below how much it effects things and when searching i found this previous post regarding the same issue in default view. that post notes it as an oversight/bug so may be another here when panels are enabled. https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=26130.0





link to imgur if images aren't working: https://imgur.com/a/eZb9PmI

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Questions / Auto Playlists lost source on portable installation.

« on: March 31, 2023, 06:29:35 PM »

I have my musicbee installation and music library stored on an external HDD so i can use it on multiple machines, specifically moved to the "M" Drive as to not cause pathing conflicts with other drives. This works fine for the music, no troubles with tracks not being found and the program sees that playlists are there, but for some reason auto playlists lose their Source and end up becoming blank. when i then reconnect to the original machine, the playlists remain blank.

i have over 300 auto playlists that now don't work because i tried to use the program on another machine once.

what can i do about this, will it continue happening in the future and how do i prevent it?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Option to exclude Banned/Unticked files from syncing.

« on: March 31, 2023, 06:10:49 PM »

Syncing Playlists ignore the filter and still sync unwanted tracks

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Option to exclude Banned/Unticked files from syncing.

« on: March 31, 2023, 07:36:21 AM »

been 3 years and still waiting on this. the functionality is there if you aren't syncing playlists but then banned tracks are synced by default, the second you swap over to playlists to filter out banned tracks the unticked tracks start syncing.

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Questions / How to enable Auto-Open right side-panel on the Now Playing (Large album view)

« on: May 25, 2022, 05:06:03 PM »

Title says it all, in "Arrange Panels" under "Override for current MusicBee tab" the Left Side Panel has the option to auto hide but right only has the binary Show/Hide and i find it much more useful to have the opposite (auto-open on the right and binary on left).

How do i change this to enable auto-open on the right side-panel?

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Questions / Re: Renaming Folders without moving them

« on: June 07, 2021, 11:10:42 PM »

You missed this?

To Folder same as current base folder (C:\Users\Michael\Music\Music\[FLAC])

For example, if I have files in \\DESKTOP\Lossless\Beatles\(1989) Abbey Road\ and I want to move them to \\DESKTOP\Lossless\Beatles\(1969) Abbey Road\ but keep the file names the same.

I would correct the bad Year tag from 1989 to 1969...

then...

To Folder: \\DESKTOP\Lossless\
Naming Template: <Album Artist>\(<Year>) <Album>\<Filename>

Will do just that.

How do i get it to leave the folders where they were like: "[FLAC]\<unchanged file name>\<renamed Folder>\<filename>" Pathway?

I don't know what the bolded part means.

The bolded part is the artist folder name or sort folder, not every artist works under the same name for every release so it's broken up like that. In your example there it would be "[Flac]\Beatles\<album name>" the label "BEATLES" is not taken from the album artist as that would be "the beatles" and then sort it to T in windows explorer.

The suggestion you're saying regarding the [FLAC] folder just moves the albums to the root folder above the artist/sort folder and i'm asking if there's a way to ignore that option without having to go into every single sort folder (which is often impossible for many playlists). I only want to change the folder the files are directly located in (in the case of of your example the abbey road folder), without changing the folder containing that folder (in your example the beatles folder). the Album Artist is not defining field for that folder so "<Album Artist>\(<Year>) <Album>\<Filename>" doesn't really solve the problem

I want to be able to leave the parent folders the same and only change the name of the folders the music files are in directly, nothing above that in the tree. It's the difference between doing it once and waiting and doing it manually several hundred times for every artist in the library or going through with a fine tooth comb to find errors comparing folder names to tag data

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Questions / Re: Renaming Folders without moving them

« on: June 07, 2021, 07:51:04 PM »

I'm afraid i don't follow, I tried that just now and it moved the albums to the [FLAC] folder

Putting \[<Year>] <Album>\<Filename> into the Folder dialogue box creates an error, while selecting the [FLAC] folder moves albums up a level which is what i'm trying to avoid.

Putting \[<Year>] <Album>\<Filename> into the Naming Template dialogue box creates a duplicate folder within the folder it's already in. meaning i end up with "[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Borston\[1976-08-25] Boston\<filename>" for the file path.

How do i get it to leave the folders where they were like: "[FLAC]\<unchanged file name>\<renamed Folder>\<filename>" Pathway?

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Questions / Re: Renaming Folders without moving them

« on: June 07, 2021, 05:56:28 PM »

Unfortunately it's also a number of date tags that are incorrect which would need updating too, what would be the process via Batch Renaming?  Ideally i just want to use the tag data to name each folder "[<Year>] <Album Name>" as that would automatically update the details to what i got from musicbrainz and just run it across my whole library and automate any issues that may have arisen that i missed.

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Questions / Renaming Folders without moving them

« on: June 07, 2021, 04:58:23 PM »

Hi, I'm trying to clean up my files and am having the issue wherein a number of album's folder names are out of date.

Is there a way to use the renaming tool to rename the folder the songs are in without moving them across multiple albums/folders? I've tried using "[<Year>] <Album>\" at the start of the naming form but that just creates a subfolder for every album while using the "To Folder" option moves the files away from the source folders.


To better illustrate, here's an example.
Say i have the self titled album by Boston located at "C:\Users\Michael\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Borston" and notice that the album title is misspelled.
If i were to manually change the folder name to "C:\Users\Michael\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Boston", Musicbee then has issues finding the songs and the album art corrupts and it just causes a lot of issues.

The only option i can find here is to manually change the name in windows explorer, then delete the files from musicbee and then re-add them to my library, which then causes problems with any playlists those tracks are on. Or to use the renaming function which then creates a subfolder within the Borston folder resulting in "C:\Users\Michael\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Borston\[1976-08-25] Boston".
Hopefully that explains the problem i'm trying to fix.


Is there a way to just change "[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Borston" to "[FLAC]\Boston\[1976-08-25] Boston" across multiple folders without moving them from the [FLAC] folder?

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Portable Devices / Re: Help with Sync Folder Structure

« on: April 12, 2021, 11:49:14 PM »

Sorry i don't understand what you're saying?

When i sync a playlist to my device at the moment, It either transfers it to whatever the naming template has set (for example "Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Disc-Track#> - <Title>", which is the default), or if you simply leave out the fields in the "<>"s it will put it "C:\Users\<Username>\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Beatles\[1967-05-26] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

in doing so it creates a Users, Username, Music, Music, [FLAC] and Beatles folder for the album to be placed in.

I want to stop it from creating Users, Username, Music and Music Folders. I just want it to sync the files to a folder beginning at the second Music portion of the hierarchy. For Example: "G:\Music\[FLAC]\Beatles\[1967-05-26] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

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Portable Devices / Help with Sync Folder Structure

« on: April 12, 2021, 07:53:28 PM »

I'm having some trouble with how to set the path for syncing files. The default naming template turns out "Music\<Album Artist>\<Album>\<Disc-Track#> - <Title>" But that changes far too many fields for me and massively throws off navigation (the dreaded "Various Artists" in particular is a huge problem).
Conversely, using "preserve folders and filenames" just dumps everything at surface level with no grouping of artists or anything making for a big mess of thousands of albums in one folder.

Ideally i'm trying to get it to just recreate the structure i use within my music folder, I did some digging and found this thread from last year: (https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=31810.0), Which seems to provide some sort of a solution.

However the way my music is organized, I have sub-libraries, Then artists or a common sorting factor, Then the album folders which contain the tracks.
For instance: C:\Users\<Username>\Music\Music\[FLAC]\Beatles\[1967-05-26] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
or  C:\Users\<Username>\Music\Music\[Game Soundtracks]\Final Fantasy\Distant Worlds\[2010-06-01] Distant Worlds II - more music from Final Fantasy

As you can probably see, that's a lot of subfolders, so using the "MUSIC\" shortcut, it creates about 5 excess folders between "Users" and the second "Music" folder.

Is there any way to set where in the chain it creates folders from? From the example above i would ideally want "Music\[FLAC]\Beatles\[1967-05-26] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".

How would i go about doing this or excluding all the needless extra folders being created from using "MUSIC\"?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Ability to override full playlist sync (Ticked/unticked)

« on: March 04, 2021, 07:29:55 PM »

Well i figured if i mentioned it enough the way it's handled might actually be addressed. considering the last time was 5 months ago and steve straight up said "i don't know why this is the way it is" and then didn't respond when i asked "can this be changed".
I'm asking it to be changed or added as a feature in the section where you ask for things to be changed or added as a feature. Isn't that what you're supposed to do?

Here's a thread of somebody with exactly the same issue asking the exact same thing and had the same answer of "well i guess i'll figure something out on my own".
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=25239.0
or another complaint about it on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/musicbee/comments/jr9p9y/is_there_a_way_to_actually_exclude_unticked_tracks/

Simply creating a playlist entitled "artist name" and featuring all of their tracks in release order should not require multiple layers of extrapolation in order to keep things grouped together for navigation without having to have a secret track with 6 minutes of silence at the start thrown into your gym rotation on a separate machine. The fact that syncing not only includes unticked songs but BANNED songs, which won't even play on a playlist in musicbee itself , there is clearly something strange about it and changes that could be made or options made visible to the end user about how it automatically handles things.

Given that syncing already checks for tick status as a marker for syncing i'm just asking that functionality be given a toggle to extend to the "sync playlists" function as well as "sync all music"

I've been using musicbee for a decade now and this is the first major oversight it has and one far-reaching enough that i've spent months on my own trying to find workarounds and even with them it's been pretty ruinous to the entire experience.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Ability to override full playlist sync (Ticked/unticked)

« on: March 04, 2021, 04:02:44 PM »

I've been using musicbee to sync my library for about 8 months now and it mostly works, but the list of caveats and hoops to jump through to achieve basic functionality parity with where i was at with itunes is incredibly frustrating. All i want to do is sync my playlists but not sync unticked tracks for whatever reason. As it stands the sync option currently only offers "Sync all music", "Sync random music", "Sync playlists" and "Sync Folders". Of these, the most useful for selectively syncing tracks is "Sync Playlists", but the playlist option seemingly ignores the ticked/unticked status of a track and syncs a full playlist regardless of contents, which syncing all music does not.

The only solution anyone seems to have to this is "create an auto-playlist", which I've done and now have to have mirrored auto-playlists for every single playlist i create on the off-chance i dare tick/untick a song. This is not only a frustrating amount of work when creating a new playlist, these auto-playlists seem to be prone to deciding to sort themselves differently than the original playlists (a fact I am often unaware of until they've already synced and i'm away from my computer) and bloat the playlist selection box which is already difficult to manage a large number of playlists in as it is (the ability to sync by folder would be nice too, but that's less the issue here).

This is a frankly needless amount of extra work to achieve something that could be easily achieved through an option in the sync menu that allows the user to decide whether to sync Ticked/Unticked when syncing playlists.

Would this be possible? please?

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Questions / Re: "Encode Failed - aacGain.exe not found" Anyone else having this?

« on: December 08, 2020, 12:16:17 AM »

Yep. It wasn't at first, but i put it in the codec folder and directed musicbee to it, which it accepted in the File Converters tab of the preferences.

Tried the same with nero which was the default option and got from the official source in Help. Neither worked.

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Questions / "Encode Failed - aacGain.exe not found" Anyone else having this?

« on: December 07, 2020, 11:10:54 PM »

Trying to sync some tracks and keep getting the error "Encode Failed - aaGain.exe not found". I tried following the instructions on the Help tab but neroaac didn't seem to help, i tried installing aacgain directly and still no results. nothing i seem to do works and i have no idea what else to do