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Questions / MusicBee maximize button ~ Windows task bar

« on: May 18, 2019, 08:45:15 AM »

Usually when I hit the maximize button, I get full-screen mode.
Sometimes, it squeezes down & leaves the Window taskbar showing.
(I have that set to Lock on & Auto-Hide off).
I haven't found a setting for this .. Is there one?
(I'd like to always show my taskbar.)

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Questions / Re: MusicBee is NOT changing semicolons to forward slashes (but other apps are)

« on: May 18, 2019, 03:07:27 AM »

It should also be noted that these messes seem to occur only when editing the artist(s) field(s) themselves.
For example, editing a comments field (only) outside of MB, then re-scanning in MB, will NOT cause the
artist(s) to lose their multi-value quality, but any edit to the artist value(s) will.
...
pain that has to be lived with

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Questions / Re: MusicBee changing semicolons to forward slashes

« on: May 15, 2019, 09:26:08 PM »

{pulling my hair out}

just to go thru it .. the next series:

MusicBee: set to:    Prince; AC/DC; MB
mp3tag: shows as:    Prince\\AC/DC\\MB
MediaMonkey rescan:   Prince; AC/DC; MB

MediaMonkey: set to: Prince; AC/DC; MM
mp3tag: shows as:   Prince/AC/DC/MM
MusicBee rescan:   Prince/AC/DC/MM

MusicBee: set to:   Prince\\AC/DC\\MB2
mp3tag: shows as:   Prince\\AC/DC\\MB2
MediaMonkey rescan:   Prince\\AC/DC\\MB2

MediaMonkey: set to:   Prince/AC/DC/MM2
mp3tag: shows as:   Prince/AC/DC/MM2
MusicBee rescan:   Prince/AC/DC/MM2

There's got to be a way to tie this down.

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Questions / Re: MusicBee changing semicolons to forward slashes

« on: May 15, 2019, 08:45:08 PM »

Went thru it again, just to be sure, but same.

In MB, set Artist = Prince; AC/DC; more
Saved, exited MB & scanned in MediaMonkey.
Came up as "Prince; AC/DC; more" in MM.


In MM, set Artist = Prince; AC/DC; other
Saved, exited MM, & scanned in MusicBee.
Came up as "Prince/AC/DC/other" in MB.

As I said, consistent .. and it is MB.

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Questions / Re: MusicBee changing semicolons to forward slashes

« on: May 15, 2019, 08:19:06 PM »

Did that, and, unfortunately, it is MB.
-Create or Edit in MB (with semicolons), save. 
-Go out & create or edit elsewhere, save (with semicolons).
-Rescan in MB .. MB comes back with slashes.
Consistently.

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Questions / Re: MusicBee changing semicolons to forward slashes

« on: May 15, 2019, 07:49:26 PM »

The changes are done in both "Artist" and "Original Artist" fields.
MB does NOT change semi-colons in the "Genre" field.

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Questions / Re: Immediate read - single file

« on: June 06, 2015, 05:44:49 PM »

Lovely -- Perfect -- Thank you.

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Questions / Immediate read - single file

« on: June 06, 2015, 04:15:39 PM »

With all the attention paid to ID3 tags - different versions in different programs, and all of that (that covers many thousands of hours of discussions, here and elsewhere), I wanted to run some tests.
So I open MB and check out how the tags show on a particular file.
Then I switch over to MP3tag and edit the file there to see what happens to the MB version.
Then I go back to MB to evaluate the results.
But MB has its own DB version still.
To see the edit, I need to rescan everything.

So, it would be awesome to have a single right-click option for a file, in the main window, to "re-read file & tags"

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Questions / Re: 2.5 - Column Browser lost functionality.

« on: May 15, 2015, 04:43:15 AM »

Thanks Zak -- Perfect.
This seems like an obvious one that should get into the Beta, though.

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Questions / 2.5 - Column Browser lost functionality.

« on: May 15, 2015, 01:05:03 AM »

One of my favorite things in MusicBee was that in the column browser, I could put up 2 copies of the Genre field, and the second would act as a subset of the first.  I use Genre extensively as a multi-value field, so this made browsing enormously easier & flexiblier.
Unfortunately, this seems to have been lost in 2.5 -- I can't find a way to get a second copy of a field up.
I installed: MusicBeePortable_2_4 (2014-10-18).zip
and downloaded: http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_5/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip
to overwrite, per instructions.
Can we get this back, please.

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Questions / Re: Installing Multiple Apps to a Common Directory

« on: May 11, 2015, 09:29:52 PM »

This grew out of the process that generated this list (from Tip & Tricks)


=================================================================================

for >> Edit | Preferences | File Converters
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1) LAME (for MP3)
   download:   http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Lame_Encoder.htm
    version:   3.99.5

   --- copy lame.exe & lame_enc.dll to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec

2) AAC (NeroAACCodec - for AAC/MPeg)
   download:   http://www.nero.com/eng/downloads-nerodigital-nero-aac-codec.php
    version:    1.5.1

    --- copy .exes (neroAacDec & neroAacEnc & neroAacTag) to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec

4) OGG-Vorbis
   download:   http://www.rarewares.org/ogg.php
    version:   oggenc2.87-1.3.5-generic [2015-03-19].zip

   --- copy oggenc2.exe to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec

5) OPUS
   download:   http://opus-codec.org/downloads/
    version:   opus-tools-0.1.9-win32.zip

   --- copy .exe's (opusenc & opusdec & opusinfo) to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec

6) MPC
   download:   http://files.musepack.net/windows/musepack_windows_2009-04-02.zip
    version:   1.30.0

   --- copy mpcenc.exe to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec

7) Flac
   download:   http://xiph.org/
    version:   FLAC 1.3.1 (25-Nov-2014)

   --- copy flac.exe to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec

ALAC (Zeranoe FFmpeg) = high-res .m4a (like diff between .mp3 & VBRV0)
   download:   http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
    version:   ffmpeg-20150502-git-6197672-win32-static.7z

   --- copy ..\bin .exe's (ffmpeg & ffplay & ffprobe) to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec
   --- activate in MusicBee - Edit > Preferences > File Converters and tick ALAC-Enabled

9) WavPack
   download:   http://www.wavpack.com/downloads.html
    version:   4.70.0

   --- copy WavPack.exe to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec

X) TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor)
   download:   http://thbeck.de/Download/TAK_2.3.0.zip
    version:   2.3.0

   --- copy TakC.exe to C:\Program Files\MusicBee\Codec

================================================================================================

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Questions / Installing Multiple Apps to a Common Directory

« on: May 11, 2015, 02:28:08 PM »

It has becomre quite tedious copying & checking for duplicates & versions between multiple apps that share the same plugins/addons.
I'm thinking of installing them all to a single AV directory.

This would mean that MB & WinAmp & Foobar2000,
plus LAME (3.99.5) & WinAmp-Essentials & Windows-Essentials-Codec-Pack,
would all necesarily be using the same support files, and I have a single place to look for update/configuration work.

Does anyone forsee problems with this approach?

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Questions / Re: 2.5 (beta) as Portable

« on: May 11, 2015, 01:06:15 PM »

I am also in the middle of a run through, doing what you suggested before (a portable installation of 2.4, followed by overwriting the files in that install with the ones downloaded for the 2.5-Beta stuff).  I will keep an eye out here.

In the meantime, can you tell me what files are actually supposed to be different between a standard and a portable installation?
I've found all the .INIs and checked all contents, to make sure I pick up everything pointed to, and I've been going through the old standard install for ref's like registry entries .. but it'd sure be nice to have a simple list of those files that are specifically changed for a portable installation.

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Questions / Re: 2.5 (beta) as Portable

« on: May 11, 2015, 08:02:15 AM »

So, ignore the "MusicBeeSetup_2_5_RC2.exe" file from the "Latest Version" forum?

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Questions / 2.5 (beta) as Portable

« on: May 11, 2015, 06:19:07 AM »

I don't see anything about portable for the 2.5 (beta).
Can anyone tell me something?
I'm trying to clean up the entire installation of MB,
and this would help a lot - cutting down drastically
on the different locations for things.