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Portable Devices / Android music players similar to Musicbee?

« on: March 28, 2024, 05:02:45 PM »

I've been using a NW-A105 Walkman for some time now and I've usually stuck to the built-in music player. It's not bad, but it's a little basic. I started to branch out and look for other players to make my main. The one I spent the most time on is Poweramp, which I see recommended in a lot of circles. It's pretty good, but I'm kind of an obsessive person when it comes to the way I tag. What I mostly don't like is that Poweramp doesn't support sorting by release dates beyond just the year; and that's a big part of my library.

I'm mostly looking for players everyone else uses that might be similar to Musicbee. Something I would really like from my ideal player is multiple artists/genres support, the aforementioned release date/"sort album" sorting, and maybe support for the "DISPLAY ARTIST" tag. The "DISPLAY ARTIST" one is probably the most important to me since I want to keep featured artists on the tracks. Poweramp will just display it as "Artist 1; Artist 2", which is beyond irritating.

I know what I'm asking for might be a long shot, but I'm still fairly new to Android music apps, so maybe there's something out there that'll fit my arbitrary criteria  

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Beyond MusicBee / Android music players similar to Musicbee?

« on: March 27, 2024, 05:54:23 PM »

I've had an NW-A105 Walkman for some time now and I've usually stuck to the built-in music player. It's not bad, but it's a little basic. I started to branch out and look for other players to make my main. The one I spent the most time on is Poweramp, which I see recommended in a lot of circles. It's pretty good, but I'm kind of an obsessive person when it comes to the way I tag. What I mostly don't like is that Poweramp doesn't support sorting by release dates beyond just the year; and that's a big part of my library.

I'm mostly looking for players everyone else uses that might be similar to Musicbee. Something I would really like from my ideal player is multiple artists/genres support, the aforementioned release date sorting, and maybe support for the "DISPLAY ARTIST" tag. The "DISPLAY ARTIST" one is probably the most important to me since I want to keep featured artists on the tracks. Poweramp will just display it as "Artist 1; Artist 2", which is beyond irritating.

I know what I'm asking for might be a long shot, but I'm still fairly new to Android music apps, so maybe there's something out there that'll fit my arbitrary criteria  

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Questions / Re: How do I search for guest artists in custom search?

« on: March 27, 2024, 02:44:36 PM »

Again, thank you guys so much! Hopefully someone else trying to do the same meticulous thing as me finds this thread lol

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Questions / Re: How do I search for guest artists in custom search?

« on: March 26, 2024, 12:15:58 PM »

if you are not using the store version, try using the patch version as its possibly something thats been fixed
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee35_Patched.zip
unzip and replace the existing musicbee application files

Thank you so much! Your patch worked. Still have no idea what was wrong before, but this fixed it.

I think I asked earlier, but is there a way to search for tracks with more than one artist in the artist field? I was using ASR's swap tags option to automate things, which leaves multiple artists in the field. Ex. "Artist 1; Artist 2; Artist 3"

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Questions / Re: How do I search for guest artists in custom search?

« on: March 26, 2024, 02:13:34 AM »

Are your guest artists tagged appropriately? This is the specific tag you're searching against with the search you've constructed.

Are you searching against your entire library (a selection in the drop-down where you also select Custom Search)?

Yes, I have it (seemingly) set up correctly. That's where my confusion mostly comes from.




I was just searching the local node before, but there's no difference in results for me.

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Questions / Re: How do I search for guest artists in custom search?

« on: March 25, 2024, 08:05:42 PM »

This one definitely works to find artists that are tagged with the role of "Guest Artist" in the artist splitter.  

Are you doing this from the "All Artists" selection or with "Entire Library" selected?  Your full-program screenshots are too small and blurred to see what's going on there.

It isn't working at all for me. I'm not sure what you mean by the "all artists" selection. If you mean from the sidebar, then not necessarily. "All Artists" shows on the side but pulls zero results. Also, to make sure it wasn't an issue with the "has a value" option in custom search, I tried it with genres and it gave me results. Are you able to recreate the issue on your side?

I did the exact search shown in your image (that I pasted into my post) against my full library and got all the tracks that have a "Guest Artist" as a role in the artist splitter.

Then I really don't know what I'm doing wrong. Like, I'm not doing anything different than when I look for anything else using custom search. Am I able to send a log or something?

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Questions / Re: How do I search for guest artists in custom search?

« on: March 25, 2024, 06:16:15 PM »

Especially since I also want to look for the semicolon and custom search won't even show that either.

The semi-colon is only used for display purposes - it isn't saved in the tag, so won't be searchable as a character.

Ah. Is there any way to search for tracks with multiple artists then? I assumed a semicolon would've been the way to do it, but I guess not.

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Questions / Re: How do I search for guest artists in custom search?

« on: March 25, 2024, 06:14:31 PM »

This one definitely works to find artists that are tagged with the role of "Guest Artist" in the artist splitter.  

Are you doing this from the "All Artists" selection or with "Entire Library" selected?  Your full-program screenshots are too small and blurred to see what's going on there.

It isn't working at all for me. I'm not sure what you mean by the "all artists" selection. If you mean from the sidebar, then not necessarily. "All Artists" shows on the side but pulls zero results. Also, to make sure it wasn't an issue with the "has a value" option in custom search, I tried it with genres and it gave me results. Are you able to recreate the issue on your side?

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Questions / How do I search for guest artists in custom search?

« on: March 25, 2024, 02:41:08 AM »

I'm trying to revert my tracks with Artist:Guest back to just "artist" and use ASR to remove the artists that follow after the first artist. When I try to do a custom search, it doesn't have any results despite there being plenty of songs in my collection with that field. In contrast, using custom search to find songs without a value there has results. I don't know why it's not working correctly.

I can still get the results by sorting the left sidebar for it, but it's not incredibly helpful. Especially since I also want to look for the semicolon and custom search won't even show that either.

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: April 19, 2022, 01:58:37 AM »

Is there a way to make it so the script can read

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signs? I don't know how to make my own script since YAML is new to me. I took a script from here

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name: Genius (2022-1-27)

variables:
    artist:
        type: artist
        filters:
        - strip_diacritics
        - lowercase
        - [replace, "!!!", "chk-chik-chick"]
        - [regex, '(?<=\W|\s)+(feat.+|ft[\W\s]+|(f\.\s)).+', ""]
        - [regex, '\.+|,+|(\W+(?=$))|(^\W+)', ""]
        - [regex, "'", ""]
        - [regex, '(?<=[a-z0-9%])[^\sa-z0-9%]+(?=[a-z0-9%]+)', "-"]
        - [regex, '((?<=\s)([^a-z0-9\s-])+(\s|\W)+)|((?<=\w)([^a-z0-9-])+(\s|\W)+)', " "]
        - [strip_nonascii, -]
    title:
        type: title
        filters: artist

config:
    url: "https://genius.com/{artist}-{title}-lyrics"
    pattern: ['<div data-lyrics-container="true" class="Lyrics__Container-sc-1ynbvzw-6 jYfhrf">(?<lyrics>.*)<div class="Lyrics__Footer-sc-', 's']

post-filters:
- br2nl
- strip_html
- utf8_encode
- entity_decode
- clean_spaces
- [regex, '\[',"\n["]
- [regex, '\n{2,}',"\n\n", 's']
- trim

This is the log file when using tracks with an apostrophe and parenthesis:

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18/04/2022 08:28:06 [DEBUG] Lyrics request: Andrew Jackson Jihad - We Didn’t Come Here To Rock - Can’t Maintain - Genius (2022-1-27)
18/04/2022 08:28:06 [INFO] Genius (2022-1-27) tries to load the lyrics...
18/04/2022 08:28:06 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: https://genius.com/andrew-jackson-jihad-we-didn-t-come-here-to-rock-lyrics
18/04/2022 08:28:06 [INFO] No lyrics found.
18/04/2022 08:28:06 [DEBUG] no lyrics found from Genius (2022-1-27)
18/04/2022 08:28:23 [DEBUG] Lyrics request: Andrew Jackson Jihad - Olde(y) Tyme - Can’t Maintain - Genius (2022-1-27)
18/04/2022 08:28:23 [INFO] Genius (2022-1-27) tries to load the lyrics...
18/04/2022 08:28:23 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: https://genius.com/andrew-jackson-jihad-olde-y-tyme-lyrics
18/04/2022 08:28:23 [INFO] No lyrics found.
18/04/2022 08:28:23 [DEBUG] no lyrics found from Genius (2022-1-27)
18/04/2022 08:28:39 [DEBUG] Lyrics request: Andrew Jackson Jihad - Kazoo Sonata In Cmaj - Can’t Maintain - Genius (2022-1-27)
18/04/2022 08:28:39 [INFO] Genius (2022-1-27) tries to load the lyrics...
18/04/2022 08:28:39 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: https://genius.com/andrew-jackson-jihad-kazoo-sonata-in-cmaj-lyrics
18/04/2022 08:28:40 [DEBUG] gzip compression detected
18/04/2022 08:28:40 [WARN] The pattern <div data-lyrics-container="true" class="Lyrics__Container-sc-1ynbvzw-6 jYfhrf">(?<lyrics>.*)<div class="Lyrics__Footer-sc- didn't match!
18/04/2022 08:28:40 [INFO] No lyrics found.
18/04/2022 08:28:40 [DEBUG] no lyrics found from Genius (2022-1-27)
18/04/2022 08:34:03 [DEBUG] Received a notification of type TagsChanging
18/04/2022 08:35:16 [DEBUG] Received a notification of type TagsChanging
18/04/2022 08:39:05 [DEBUG] Received a notification of type TagsChanging
18/04/2022 08:44:43 [DEBUG] Lyrics request: Aimee Mann - That’s Just What You Are - I’m With Stupid - Genius (2022-1-27)
18/04/2022 08:44:43 [INFO] Genius (2022-1-27) tries to load the lyrics...
18/04/2022 08:44:43 [DEBUG] The constructed URL: https://genius.com/aimee-mann-that-s-just-what-you-are-lyrics
18/04/2022 08:44:44 [INFO] No lyrics found.
18/04/2022 08:44:44 [DEBUG] no lyrics found from Genius (2022-1-27)

I noticed that for songs with an apostrophe, Genius ignores the sign in the URL. Ex: That’s Just What You Are --> https://genius.com/Aimee-mann-thats-just-what-you-are-lyrics
The same goes for parenthess: Olde(y) Tyme(y) --> https://genius.com/Ajj-oldey-tymey-lyrics

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Plugins / Re: Musicbee Chromecast Plugin

« on: November 21, 2020, 01:36:33 AM »

I'm having trouble getting the plugin to work. I put the Microsoft.Owin.Host.HttpListener.dll file where the MusicBee executable is and still nothing. I have both a Chromecast and Google Home Mini and I still get the "no devices" message when I try to connect.

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Questions / Re: How do you refresh/rescan device libraries?

« on: September 12, 2020, 10:20:42 AM »

I'm not sure that will help, since I don't think the goal is to add the device tracks to the regular library.

@RetroGameReaper, are you trying to edit the track tags or just add/remove tracks? If the former, I'd suggest making the changes in your library and then re-syncing. Even with the great wifi sync app, I don't think tag changes get synced back.

In any case, I don't think you need to worry too much about that message. That happens to me with my NAS occasionally, which I think has to do with the files being re-indexed or something.

It's more of the former, but I'll see what happens if I continue with the message anyway.

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Questions / Re: How do you refresh/rescan device libraries?

« on: September 12, 2020, 10:19:42 AM »

First:



Second:

But then this happened...
https://imgur.com/a/xJfLm0C (sorry it's not an embedded picture, Imgur hasn't been working when I do it on any site anymore)

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Questions / How do you refresh/rescan device libraries?

« on: September 12, 2020, 05:53:13 AM »

I use MusicBee to transfer files to my NW-A55 and whenever I go to look at the device's music so I can edit it, I get the "The file(s) being edited have been updated outside of MusicBee - you may need to rescan them to ensure the most recent tag values are displayed and saved." error message. I've tried scanning for new files and the "Rescan All Files" option, but that only affects my computer's library and not the device.

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Plugins / Re: LyricsReloaded (Updated)

« on: September 04, 2020, 08:36:08 PM »

So I think the problem was mostly because of those special characters. I even got rid of

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 - [strip_nonascii, -]

and even the 764-HERO stuff Genius has works. I still don't understand why it won't take the stuff from LyricsWiki though. If anything, I think I'll just start using MediaHuman Lyrics Finder as my means of getting lyrics. Thank you though.