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Plugins / Re: iPod & iPhone Driver

« on: February 03, 2021, 10:18:49 PM »

I've had catastrophic disasters with music libraries handled under iTunes,  dropped it years ago. Musicbee is hands down the best music library, if not foobar2000. Not an Apple user but iPod is the only device I like to use but I dread installing iTunes just so that I can use Rockbox. I do not use the iPod plugin because it force involves the use of iTunes. What I do is open the latest itunes.exe using 7zip and only extract and install the iTunes64.msi and AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi for lean bare bones support for iPod USB connections to restore the iPod.

Because Musicbee has a unstable connection under a Rockbox USB music sync, where the connection drops every few minutes while syncing; what I do is uninstall Rockbox bootloader (not delete .rockbox folder) reset iPod by holding Menu + Center, and immediately before the Apple logo appears, turn the hold switch on, and the iPod reboots back to normal default "white" interface, sync the iPod under Musicbee as regular flash drive connection to /Music folder, and then install Rockbox bootloader back reset iPod again normally without the hold switch to boot back to Rockbox, all while leaving the internal drive /Music untouched. The USB connection sync stability is flawless under the regular iPod interface as "flash drive", but once you have your full library in sync, one could go back to Rockbox and sync the occasional minor sync. Syncing the occasional song or album under Rockbox should be quick, if the connection drops, just hard reset back to Rockbox and connect again (hold Menu + Center). None of the "flash drive" sync music will appear under the iPod default interface, for that you'd have to use and turn on the plugin, make sure all the iTunes settings are set and then sync as described in the plugins instructions page: https://www.getmusicbee.com/addons/plugins/48/ipod-amp-iphone-driver/

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Bug Reports / Re: [6361] No automatic clean-up of temporary files that fill up system drive

« on: April 21, 2018, 08:57:23 PM »

Have to bring this up again, I have the same issue, and has been plaguing me for years since the iPod classic. Now though, it is my regular MTP/MSC Android phone with a 128GB sd card. I have in the settings to encode files anything above 191k AAC bitrate, tried all sorts of artwork settings, and the temp folder storage builds only with encoded files that are never transferred to the device. Some files below 191k are copied fine, but the files that are encoded are built in the temp and never copied over. Only closing Musicbee will wipe the temp folder clean rendering cpu heat, cycles and disk storage a waste because the encoded files are never copied. If it were, I could deal with it by once in a while restarting Musicbee, but not in this case. Thanks.

Edit: Alright! Developer has stated several times throughout different posts that Musicbee should delete temp files automatically, this is true but I just found out that the syncing to MTP device works with auto delete temp files when the "except codec" option is UNCHECKED.

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on-the-fly-conversion > convert all files [ ] except <codec> with [<bitrate>]k or less bitrate

In my previous case, I had it checked for AAC and 127k, so convert all 128k aac files or above to the desired on-the-fly conversion bitrate, this triggered an endless build up of temp files in which where "encoded" but never copied to the device. Now unchecked, the temp folder behaves accordingly to auto delete files. This must be a bug if it is checked, right? If someone wants to convert certain codecs at a certain bitrate by checking this box, then he or she will face this problem by temp folder buildup and encoded files not copying over to device. Thanks.

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Plugins / Re: Rockbox DB Plugin

« on: August 13, 2015, 09:42:04 AM »

Nice idea. If I can get an iPod classic to work consistently upon connecting though.

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Plugins / Re: Discogs Tagger

« on: August 13, 2015, 09:39:44 AM »

Thanks, excellent plugin. Though, same problem persists, it rarely shows. When it worked, it had much rich tagging information than Gracenote. Is it an access limitation on Discogs end?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Switching to either Acoustid or Echoprints (Echonest)

« on: January 02, 2013, 07:34:32 AM »

Great! I believe MusicBrainz' AcoustID will be the next generation fingerprinting service.
edit: Since their's Winamp Plugin support for "in_*.dll", is it possible to implement ml_autotag.dll ? Or have a context menu to send selected songs directly to the enqueue of Winamp? Or better yet, directly to the "Send to -> Auto-Tag" window without any gracenote permission hassle? That would be golden and certainly a temporary solution to use both Gracenote's massive library together with AcoustID's promising system. Thanks.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Switching to either Acoustid or Echoprints (Echonest)

« on: December 24, 2012, 01:47:18 AM »

I would like to agree on such important feature of tagging organization, Acoustic Fingerprinting. I just switched to MusicBee for being a superior player and having Discogs capability but sometimes you just have to have the reliability and effectiveness of fingerprinting services. This is the reason I haven't let go of Winamp entirely (not the only reason) because it offers the most established service in it's class, Gracenote. I do understand though it requires fees, but the above poster, Alainn, did suggest helpful additions and nonetheless free open source alternatives, thanks. I seriously think MusicBee is the best player found in the internet, amazing program.

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General Discussions / Re: Official MB appreciation thread

« on: December 24, 2012, 01:38:04 AM »

Amazing. Been using iTunes since the 4th Gen iPod came out. Not because I'm a fan of the company (never been) but because well...who didn't own a 40GB player at the time? I have had major library disasters because I simply didn't know how the p.o.c. program worked. It took hours of time and organization so that it could be turned into fully fledged disasters. Then over the years I realized how it never acted like a proper player by "monitoring" a specifically given folder as the base minimum feature one expects a media player to have, let alone a proper database system instead of some crippled linear xml file as it's organizer. Despite these headaches and the lack of iPod support from other players, more and more players over time started to support the iPod. Now why the iPod? Well that's a whole new story. Tell me one player out there that gives me mass storage in my pocket, hardware controls and basic DAP for my needs? Despite today having touchy touch fanciness, and lack of storage (typically the boring 8, 16, 32 blah blah sequence), no other player competes with the iPod as a true jukebox player. Now, wanting to shift my library towards something intelligent and fully featured (since years ago, no time or dedication), it was time to move towards the Winamp/foobar/Mediamonkey/<insert gtk related player> territory. When this happened iTunes 11 was announced, LOL, how pathetic is to release pointless features and yet NOT solve the long term problem it has, yet many argue it all over the forums how "simple" and "effective" it is, oh wait, I'm weird. Anyways, one of the strongest players that had always been installed in my pc for years was Winamp. Thing is I personally don't like to use a program that crashes, builds memory and lacks many library customizations, views, usability, let alone handled by AOL, but I wasn't going to discontinue my use over it because of one undeniable feature, Gracenote access). I then started installing the most attractive players with the features that was effective for me under the wiki comparison page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software]. Of course these lists will never fulfill the little details that one catches if you don't actually install it yourself and play with it. About a handful of the total players available, foobar2000 indefinitely was one of my top picks, as a matter of fact it has been my player for my separate "flacs" for a couple of months already, but my main goal was to move my main .mp3 library away from iChunes to 2 or 3 players simultaneously. Along the installation tests, MusicBee was certainly tested but somehow I uninstalled it...  have no idea why but I was not in an open minded mood or discovery at the time. Later tests using other gtk like players which are certainly superior to iTunes, weren't fulfilling as I had already been using foobar2000 and Winamp. Mediamonkey eventually overcame the test and it was used as my third player to transfer, organize and possibly tag. I finally did the shift by using foobar2000 extensively and Winamp's proper "library scanninng" engine and I have never felt so secured and calm by fiddling with my library so much without having the fear of seeing exclamation point everywhere and broken xml files all over. Once the transfer was done I noticed Winamp doesn't automatically reflect changed upon changes done to the songs, one has to re-scan or something. foobar2000 is another glorious player, does everything how one wants it, certainly not gui friendly but it ain't a cli player. From here on, I accomplished my goal from moving away from the bloated player, but now my other heavy tasks was to mas tag everything in such "masochist" order. Now there was nothing out of order under iTunes either, the tagging I do is quite strict and organization is highly important as I am more of a "tagger" than a "folder" user. As an Electronic Genre listener, the access to Discogs is KEY and high priority, period. So by using mp3Tag a lot and Gracenote under Winamp for detailed tagging of unknowns, track xx, and other goodness is highly important, this is why I continue to keep Winamp as they are a licensed Gracenote client, along with iTunes with the exception that it must be songs imported from a CD and not the drag and dropped music files, LOL again. From here on I noticed how with much use, Mediamonkey was starting to become quite not my priority player, though not certainly a bad player since it does rank highly among others. Continuing on with my tagging and organization and eventually duplicated/backed up across a NAS, I eventually decided to give MusicBee a go once again since some random forum post in [http://techsupportalert.com] mentioned MusicBee 2.0 released and wow, simply amazing. It covers everything that I need, customization very high, and vast amounts of tagging, portable, auto folder organization, something foobar doesn't have but their plugin "file operations" is definitely useful and heck, everything else. I think I have now settled my search and use of a -proper player- that runs light. Dev and team working on this player, I would like to extend my appreciation on such program of high caliber. Thanks.