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Questions / Re: Using MusicBee on 2 computers with OneDrive

« on: February 27, 2021, 01:29:49 AM »

Just spitballing because I don't use Onedrive or have any idea how the URL for these files appears in your library, but can you share the Onedrive directory on one of the local computers to the network and then reference that share in your library rather than C:\Onedrive or whatever it would be?

I've got experience running MB on multiple computers referencing the same library on a network share because I do it every day all day (now that I've switched to MB portable, even the MB program is on the share), but I don't know squat about Onedrive or how you are accessing the library outside the house.  Are you saying outside the house it would understand C:\Onedrive but not \\COMPUTER\Onedrive?

I know Onedrive and cloud libraries in general have been discussed multiple times here, have none of those posts helped?

I appreciate the spitballing!  That's...an interesting idea I hadn't considered.  I'm not sure how well that would work, but I could try it.

Basically, OneDrive just syncs the same way as Dropbox or other cloud services, there is a OneDrive folder, but to Windows (and Musicbee by extension), it's just another local folder on your computer, so yeah, MusicBee sees it as like C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive by default (although Windows also maps the %ONEDRIVE% shortcut path to wherever it really is, so if MusicBee could recognize that, that would also be great.  It doesn't, though).  So when I'm outside the house, it just works because I do have all the files downloaded and stored locally, and if I have internet it will sync any changes I make to that folder.  I'm aware that there isn't support for streaming from OneDrive, as it appears there wasn't enough interest in it, so instead I have to just download the entire library completely.  But I'm totally fine with that.  The library seems to work regardless of the path differences, but the playlists don't, because the playlists store the full absolute path separately from the library.  Honestly, if I could somehow have the mbp playlists use relative paths as well, this would all just "work", but I don't think that's possible afaik.

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Questions / Re: Using MusicBee on 2 computers with OneDrive

« on: February 27, 2021, 12:42:14 AM »

Can't you just switch the drive letters around on one of the computers to make them match again?

On one of the computers, it only has a C: main drive, and for unrelated reasons (unintended legacy software compatibility issues) I'd rather not make the entire system drive a completely different drive letter just for a single program.

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Questions / Using MusicBee on 2 computers with OneDrive

« on: February 27, 2021, 12:35:10 AM »

I've been trying to use MusicBee as a replacement for GPM after it shut down and iTunes Match since I've gotten tired of iTunes on Windows, and as a music player/library manager it's so much better than those; I wish I had found it years ago.  I feel like I'm almost to where I want it, but there's one small thing that's been really annoying to deal with, and I haven't found a suitable solution so far.

So, I've got all of my music on OneDrive, so it's accessible to both computers no matter where I am.  I also have the playlists (.mbp) themselves stored in OneDrive, and the idea is that any changes I make to those playlists are synced between the 2 computers automatically, because they are using the same playlist files.  This worked fine, until I needed to change my OneDrive path to a different drive on one of my computers due to storage space issues.  Now, the drive letter is different between the two computers, and although I can export m3u playlists with relative paths, the MBP playlists store everything in absolute paths.

What's the best way to make the playlists work between both computers in this scenario?  I just want to be able to use my OneDrive library through 2 different instances of MusicBee, and have any changes I make on either end sync up on both sides automatically.  I don't want to have to reimport playlists every time I make a change (i.e. keeping local copies of the playlists instead of on OneDrive).  I also don't want to host my music library on a network share, because the point of putting it on OneDrive is I don't necessarily have to be home and on my network to use it (one of my computers is a laptop), and also that way I can access it on my phone through third party apps as well.  I also tried making a directory junction with mklink to make the paths match up, but that seems to disappear constantly and isn't reliable, probably due to the way OneDrive works with Windows.  Any ideas, or is what I want just not possible right now?