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Questions / Re: Trouble with Last.fm playcount sync

« on: August 22, 2018, 07:43:40 AM »

After spending some f### hours, searching failure in tagging, MB whatever, I think I found out the problem. It's last.fm itself. In profile settings is an option for spelling correction, by default turned on.
Disabling seems to solve it.

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Questions / Re: Trouble with Last.fm playcount sync

« on: August 19, 2018, 05:32:00 PM »

Hi, Steven.
Thx for your fast answer. Tried Cache delete, but didn't work. Other songs get's updatet, but this one and another one I tested won't 
Can it be the reason, cause it's not an official release? It was a live performence within a TV show, which never official released.
But I wonder, why it's getting scrobbled and why it appear in the stats-plugin??

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Questions / Trouble with Last.fm playcount sync

« on: August 19, 2018, 02:24:59 PM »

Hi,
I've the problem, that MB won't sync playcounts back from Last.fm.
The stats plugin works and shows correctly, but MB won't. Not automatically, not manually.
I can also click the song in stats view and it jumps correct to song in library.
I don't know, where's the problem with playcount  

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Questions / Re: Sync ratings and playcounts between duplicates

« on: July 08, 2018, 10:30:32 PM »

Thx, I will try!

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Questions / Sync ratings and playcounts between duplicates

« on: July 08, 2018, 02:36:51 PM »

Hi,
is there a way to sync ratings, tags and playcounts between duplicates permanently? For MediaMonkey there‘s a script, which makes it possible. i.e. I rate a title with 4 stars and MusicBee will automatically tag all linked duplicates also with 4 stars?

Best regards

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Portable Devices / iTunes Rating/Playcount Sync

« on: June 19, 2018, 08:23:06 AM »

Hi there,
I got a problem, I got an IPhone 8+ (haha, I know what you think, but that‘s not my problem). I use Musicbee to organize my music and play music at home, but need ITunes to sync music to phone (cause Musicbee doesn‘t support syncing). Most of my files are FLAC, so I go the way syncing my files to another folder to mp3, load those files into ITunes and sync to my phone. So far, so good. I listen those songs at work, with build-in Apple player and rate them. When I‘m back home, ITunes sync ratings and playcounts. But I want to sync playcount and ratings also to original FLAC‘s. Is there an easier way to do this, then editing FLAC‘s manually?

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Questions / Check ASX files

« on: May 14, 2018, 01:31:31 PM »

Hi,
is there a way to check ASX files fast for playability? The reason is, I killed many dups, resulting in nearly 5000 ASX files. Now, I noticed that 1 file had a wrong link and wasn‘t playable. Checked other files and they played correctly. Now I want to test the other files, but won‘t playback all of them. Is there a way, to do it fast?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Option to skip copying files, if they already exists

« on: April 25, 2018, 04:01:05 PM »

I'm willing to bet that you are.

Maybe  

But it seems to be not  
COPY FILES TO ORGANIZED FOLDER: SKIP EXISTING FILES

Method G:
Listen to the playlist from the USB stick (or some temporary location) as is without adding anything from it to your library.  The day before the next playlist comes, add the 5 new songs from the current playlist to your library. The next day, when the new playlist comes, repeat.

It's not the point, adding new songs. It's the point keeping playlist up-to-date, cause nearly every song has to be rearranged to it's right chart position. And just importing a pre-created playlist makes it much easier, than rebuilding.

If you knew the time, effort and thought that some (most?) of the rest of us here put into curating our music libraries, you'd understand how odd your resistance to putting any small effort into it sounds to some (most?) of us.  You already have someone else literally handing your your music files, which is half my battle over here! No offense.  Just saying, it's a very different viewpoint.

I understand your viewpoint. I also invest much time tagging songs and curating my library, so my wife get's mad    That's why an easier import would be better. Cause saved time I didn't spend in recreating an already existing playlist, I could spend in curating my library. If I backup files (whether audio or other) I let the copy prog skip existing files I didn't changed, to not waste my time, with unneeded copying of unchanged files. That's my viewpoint.

However... It is like it is and I found a method how I solve, but I think reorganizing function for importing new files could be better with a skip function. 

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Option to skip copying files, if they already exists

« on: April 25, 2018, 02:26:32 PM »

First, thx for all your answers.
Ok, I'll try to explain my problem a little bit better cause I think sense of my whish to skip is misunderstood.
A friend creates chartsplaylists which are very dynamic and change permanently. I.e. a playlist, called "UK Charts 03/25/18". This list contains 50 songs. He gives me an USB-stick with this 50 songs and playlistfile in one folder. Playlist directly link to the files, without folder specification, cause it's in the same folder. Files are named like: Artist - Title.ext. I'll import that playlist, with this 50 songs renamed to Artist\Album\Artist - Title.ext and moved to folder F:\music\ and into my library. That works so far, cause files not exist until yet. Imported playlist linked all songs to new library path correctly. And now, my first world problems begin. Two weeks later he release a new updated playlist called "UK Charts 04/10/18". 5 songs of the previous playlist are not longer contained, 5 new songs get's entry at different chart/playlist positions and other chart/playlist positions will change also. I also get those 50 song files (45 exactly same as 2 weeks ago) and playlist file. Now I want to import this new (updated) playlist, same way, including the 5 new songs.

Now my options are:
Method A: Import the 5 new songs and rebuild the complete playlist manually. Let me think about...no    Want to waste time listening to music, not building chart playlists, which are already done.

Method B: Import/organize new folder including all songs into my music-folder and library, also the 45, which already exist in my library/folder. Check overwrite and overwrite the old files. Results in correct linked path in imported playlist, but not nice, cause all tags of old files, I edited, will be killed. Ok, could backup all tags first and restore them  

Method C:
Import/organize new folder including all songs, also the 45, which already exist in my library without overwriting.
Results in duplicates Artist\Album\Artist - Title_1.ext. I can kill all the dups, but playlist still link to the *_1.ext files  
I can leave the dups, paths are correctly, but waste disk space. Ok, could relink to the older files. But if there must be 20 titles or more has to relink, it's irritating.

Method D:
Import/organize new folder including all songs, and uncheck the existing. Moves new songs renamed into library and link path correct in playlist, but path of the unchecked (older ones) won't link to the existing files in library/music folder. They keep path of the USB-stick.

Method E:
Only importing the 5 new songs, leave the old untouched and change chart/playlist positions manually... see method A  

Method F (the one I actually use):
I use foobar and open the playlist, move all songs to \Music\Artist\Album\Artist - Title.ext on USB-stick and save playlist with updated path/filenames in folder \Music\. Now I move everything including playlist to my music folder, by skipping existing files. So, 5 new songs and playlist will be copied, the other 45 songs will be skipped. Let Musicbee rescan my music and... updated playlist appears and all songs linked correctly and nothings overwritten.

I agree that the current method with duplicating is best for proofing, but I think there should be a fast skip option (like nearly every copy app has) for users, who know what they do (like overwrite option) and want to prevent overwriting of older files, without creating dups. Don't know if I'm the only one, who imports dynamic changing playlists with same songs?!  

Best regards

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Option to skip copying files, if they already exists

« on: April 24, 2018, 08:15:34 PM »

Yes, I know and Steven does a great job, I already donated and will do so in future.
It's not a claim by me, and I can solve with 3rd party apps. But it would be better in one prog.
I think there are other users which need this function. Found an older post in musicbee forum by google search,
where another user asked for it. However, also if Steven won't implement, I stay with MB 

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Option to skip copying files, if they already exists

« on: April 24, 2018, 07:16:46 PM »

First of all, I use Musicbee for all: managing/organizing, playing, creating playlists or tagging, cause it's the best musicmanager I know (and I tried a lot). But now, let me explain my problem more accurate. I got a mate, a professional DJ. He creates playlist and runs a homeserver, where I can download music with his created playlists. But this songs aren't organized like songs in my library. I want to import those songs completely with his playlists (cause I'm mostly to lazy, create my own  ). And here's my problem, that songs can appear, which are already in my library. And when I'm importing those playlists and organize the contained songs, the new songs will be organized and renamed in my wanted format and the already existing files will be doubled with *_1.* Now I delete the *_1.* doubles. The result: the imported playlist exists in Musicbee and the new songs are fine in playlist. But the songs, I had doubles and deleted the *_1.* files, I have to relink to the older files without *_1.*, cause playlist/MB don't automatically update to those files.
My actually workflow looks now: 1. downloading playlist and musicfiles / 2. using foobar renaming songs like they are organized in MB library and saving playlist with actual filenames /3. copying musicfiles and playlist into my musicfolder and let existing files skip / 4. Scan my musicfolder with MB, so new songs and playlists are imported fine in MB library, existing songs and tags are untouched and playing fine, without relinking.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Option to skip copying files, if they already exists

« on: April 24, 2018, 05:11:02 PM »

Hi, frankz.
Thx for reply. Your method is ok for album and single titles so far.
But on the other hand... I hope I can explain it understandable, cause English is not my native language...
When I import new songs with a before created playlist and reorganize files into my library, without overwrite, it results in a file i.e.
"Alice Cooper - Poison_1.flac" and also the older file "Alice Cooper - Poison.flac". Musicbee will link to "Alice Cooper - Poison_1.flac", what's technically correct.
Now, I check for duplicates and Musicbee shows both files. Original and the new "Alice Cooper - Poison_1.flac". I delete the duplicate "Alice Cooper - Poison_1.flac", cause the older is already tagged, same version and no need to replace. Duplicate is eleminated and old file still exists fully tagged. So far, so good. But the playlist doesn't automatically recognize, that the clone was deleted and has still link on "Alice Cooper - Poison_1.flac". The only solution in this case, is editing playlist and link to the file "Alice Cooper - Poison.flac" manually. That's ok for one title, but when there are 10 or more it's irritating. The other solution, could be *.asx files. But that could result in dozens of *.asx files, when a song is more often affected. When there's a skip function, the filename is correctly in playlist and old file won't be overwritten and no unneeded *.asx file will be created.
Or do you have another idea to solve it??    In foobar2k is a skip funktion included, when moving files. I can solve this also with using TotalCommander or similar. But an including in Musicbee could make it mouch easier.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Option to skip copying files, if they already exists

« on: April 23, 2018, 10:05:42 AM »

I would like to have the option, while reorganizing files. When an older file with same name already exists, that copying of newer file skips. I.e. there‘s a file „Alice Cooper - Poison“ in my library. Now I rip a CD and there‘s also „Alice Cooper - Poison“ included, but I don’t notice. Now I want to copy it organized into my library. Option 1: I‘ll check overwrite existing older file. But I don’t want to overwrite, cause old file is ok and already tagged. Option 2: Overwrite is unchecked, but now I get a duplicate, which I don’t want. So it would be better, when there’s an option „Skip existing files“, which leaves older files with same name untouched.

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Questions / Skip existing files while renaming

« on: April 22, 2018, 11:06:41 AM »

Hi folks,
maybe I‘m to stupid or blind... again.
Is there a possibility, skipping existing files while renaming automatically? I see only function to overwrite existing and can only uncheck duplicates. But non automatic skip, if I want to keep the older files. That results in files like „abc.flac“ and „abc_1.flac“.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: <random>

« on: December 29, 2017, 05:56:50 AM »

Hi, othizy.
Don‘t be afraid. Musicbee is great and full of functions. Maybe somethings I‘ll never discover. But it has also a great, friendly and helpful community.
I had nearly same question. It‘s not so easy, clicking a checkbox. But you can random a playlist with wanted songs and then export. Take a look here, that works fine:

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=21940.msg128846#msg128846