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Beyond MusicBee / Re: How do you get new album alerts?
« on: January 08, 2015, 12:39:45 PM »
Discogs, though that only works for artists you already have in your collection and if somebody actually submits a new entry.
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MusicBee Wishlist / Middle-click on split artists to only search for particular artist
« on: December 17, 2014, 10:40:57 AM »
Maybe this is already possible but I didn't find a way to do this.
If there are split entries in a composer/artist field clicking with the middle mouse button will open a new tab featuring search results for the clicked entry, but unfortunately this only works for the complete entry despite all artists in said field being separated by a semicolon. The same applies if you right-click on an entry and go for the "Find more by..." entries.
In my opinion it would make more sense to provide separate entries for each artist in those fields as well as middle-click support for them.
If there are split entries in a composer/artist field clicking with the middle mouse button will open a new tab featuring search results for the clicked entry, but unfortunately this only works for the complete entry despite all artists in said field being separated by a semicolon. The same applies if you right-click on an entry and go for the "Find more by..." entries.
In my opinion it would make more sense to provide separate entries for each artist in those fields as well as middle-click support for them.
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Questions / Re: Including Group Album with Solo Artist
« on: November 17, 2014, 09:30:22 AM »I assign the group members to the Performer tag. MB still includes those in the Artist list.
What about featured artists? Do you put them in as "Guest Artists" or "Performers" as well?
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Questions / Re: MB and MixedInKey - no automatic updates of comments/tags after processing
« on: November 16, 2014, 04:49:14 PM »
Not exactly the most intuitive place to look for it, but that does exactly what I was looking for - thanks! Would have been quite a surprise if MusicBee wouldn't offer such a function when it excels in so many other places. 
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Questions / MB and MixedInKey - no automatic updates of comments/tags after processing
« on: November 16, 2014, 10:38:30 AM »
Is anybody else using MusicBee along MixedInKey to automatically update BPM/key values for files in their library?
I can drag my selected files from MusicBee into MixedInKey where they are processed correctly (as far as I can tell) and have their values written to the BPM/comments field as well as the TKEY tag for which I set up a custom tag to have it displayed in MusicBee, but unfortunately there seems to be no way to make MusicBee recognize the updated values other than opening every song's tag editor and save the values already present back into the MB library.
I had a similar problem in iTunes but I found that updating a useless tag would make it re-evaluate all tags and update the library accordingly. In MusicBee this doesn't seem to work properly. Instead, selecting a bunch of tracks and hitting "Save" only updates the library entry of the first song and leaves the others untouched. If I update another tag so MusicBee has to update the file it even deletes the values in all three tags (comments/BPM/TKEY).
I can drag my selected files from MusicBee into MixedInKey where they are processed correctly (as far as I can tell) and have their values written to the BPM/comments field as well as the TKEY tag for which I set up a custom tag to have it displayed in MusicBee, but unfortunately there seems to be no way to make MusicBee recognize the updated values other than opening every song's tag editor and save the values already present back into the MB library.
I had a similar problem in iTunes but I found that updating a useless tag would make it re-evaluate all tags and update the library accordingly. In MusicBee this doesn't seem to work properly. Instead, selecting a bunch of tracks and hitting "Save" only updates the library entry of the first song and leaves the others untouched. If I update another tag so MusicBee has to update the file it even deletes the values in all three tags (comments/BPM/TKEY).
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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Individual CD names in 2+CD/box sets // Artists "Join" button
« on: November 11, 2014, 05:57:09 PM »
Works like a charm - thanks alot! 
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MusicBee Wishlist / Individual CD names in 2+CD/box sets // Artists "Join" button
« on: November 10, 2014, 07:28:45 PM »
I apologize if this already possible, but there are some things I would love to see in MusicBee
1. The possiblity to name individual CDs in a release like this one for example, so the album still gets listed as one entry in the column browser but each "sub album" gets listed with its own name. Like an album sort name of sorts.
2. The possiblity to join a group of artists/composers into a single string again. It's great that MusicBee can split a string at the semicolon but after making some changes in an indivual composer field it would sometimes be handy to be able to join all entries back into the display composer field again.
I would hardly call these top priority features, though.
1. The possiblity to name individual CDs in a release like this one for example, so the album still gets listed as one entry in the column browser but each "sub album" gets listed with its own name. Like an album sort name of sorts.
2. The possiblity to join a group of artists/composers into a single string again. It's great that MusicBee can split a string at the semicolon but after making some changes in an indivual composer field it would sometimes be handy to be able to join all entries back into the display composer field again.
I would hardly call these top priority features, though.
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Questions / Re: Best way to organize 65K plus of files.
« on: November 06, 2014, 12:38:21 PM »$IsNull(<Media Type>,Albums,$If($Or(<Media Type>="Album",<Media Type>="Compilation"),Albums,$If(<Media Type>="Live",Albums,$If(<Media Type>="Remix",Albums,Other))))\$IsNull(<Grouping>,$Group($Sort(<Album Artist>),1)" "Artists\$Sort(<Album Artist>),$Group($Sort(<Grouping>),1)" "Artists\$If(<Grouping>=<Album Artist>,$Sort(<Grouping>),$Sort(<Grouping>)\$Sort(<Album Artist>)))$If(<Library>=1," ",\)$If(<Media Type>="Various Songs","Various Songs",$IsNull(<Year>,," "<Year>¦)$IsNull(<Media Type>,A,$Left(<Media Type>,1))" "$If(<Artist>=<Album>,Self-Titled,<Album>)$IsNull(<Publisher>,," ("$Left(<Publisher>,10)")")\$IsNull(<Disc-Track#>,,<Disc-Track#>-))$if(<Album Artist>=<Artist>,<Title>,$if($Contains(<Artist>," (feat "),<Title>" (feat "$Split(<Artist>," (feat",2),<Artist>-<Title>))
I have just started scratching the surface of MusicBee after switching from iTunes, but boy do I have a long way ahead of me...
