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Questions / Plugin "Last.fm Similar Artists/Tracks" does not show up
« on: January 22, 2017, 10:58:05 AM »
Hi,

I have problems to activate the plugin "Last.fm Similar Artists/Tracks"
(see http://getmusicbee.com/addons/plugins/12/last-fm-similar-artists-tracks/)
in MusicBee v 3.0.6132 portable version.

I copied the .dll of the plugin to MBs plugin folder and veryfied in the settings that it is enabled.

But where does it show up / how to enabled this ?

I need some instructions please.

This view I want to have like in MusicBee 2.5.*, that updates automatically with the actual played title.

Here the screenshot from the plugin page how it shall look like:


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Or could this be a particular problem of Musicbee version 2.5 ?
I suggest trying the latest 3.0 or 3.1 since 2.5 is rather old at this point.

With 3.0 the problem is solved, thanks. 3.1 Beta is not yet available for the public it seems.

There are some obstacles for me to upgrade to 3.x, this is the reason why I would like to stay on 2.5 for the time being.
See: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20810.0

Would it be possible to request 2 things to become backported to 2.5 ?

- randomness fix
- hopefully upcoming fix of ASIO configuration, see bug report: http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=20819.0

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Perhaps you should download the portable version of 3.0. That way you can play with the various options and layouts without changing anything in 2.5. Note that v3 creates it's own settings file (MusicBee3Settings.ini) and doesn't touch the 2.5 settings file (MusicBeeSettings.ini.)

Thats is a very good idea and it works nicely.

Now I need still a recommendation for a plugin, how I can achieve the functionality, to see the TABs inside of MusicBee like before, I do not want to open wikipedia information by rightclick for every title.

I was very satisfied that things like this happened automatically inside of MusicBee during the playback.

I play guitar to some titles and have no hand free for this.

EDIT: it looks like it is this plugin:

http://getmusicbee.com/addons/plugins/12/last-fm-similar-artists-tracks/

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Hi,

my recording interface, RME UFX+, has 94 input and output channels.

In the ASIO configuration dialog the list of device channel is scrollable, so far so good.

The bug is, that the list of speakers is not scrollable and does not scroll up/down together in sync with the list of device channels. By this you can't assign i.e. the left/right channel to all device channels.

This bug was already in 2.5.* and has not yet been fixed in the 3.0 train.

The situation becomes worse if you use a 2nd device like the new USB DAC RME ADI-2 Pro (Headphone Amp).
The ADI-2 Pro uses the same RME ASIO driver like the UFX+.
The problem is, that the device channels of the 2nd device are listed at the end of the list.
So you have no chance to assign left/right channel to the ADI-2 Pro directly.

Would be nice if you could fix this ASIO configuration dialog window in 3.0 and the upcoming 3.1.

Many thanks.



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Hi,

I read somewhere that the design in MusicBee 3.0 changed so that some display things are not included anymore
and needs external plugins.

What I liked in v2.5 was the ability to easily click a few tabs to get various information about the currently played song / performer
- Song "Details" including Lyrics
- Last.fm infos
- Fotos
- Wikipedia (DE + EN)
- Youtube
- Songfacts

Could you kindly tell me, what is additionally required in terms of plugins or whatever to be able to get these capabilities back in v3 ?
Here a screenshot how I organized my screen.

Many thanks for some tips.


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Hi,

my last upgrade attempt from MusicBee 2.5 to version 3 is long ago.

I think I remember that I lost i.e. my autoplay lists and some handcrafted play lists.

My Questions:

- Whats best practice for such an MusicBee release upgrade ?

- What can I do, not too loose anything in terms of playlists ?


Many thanks for your kind support upfront.

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Questions / 2.5.5804: Random playing in autoplaylist is not really random
« on: January 21, 2017, 10:29:24 AM »
Hi,

does somebody else have the same problem, that MusicBee plays more or less the same songs ?

I have i.e. 2 Auto Playlist
- play flac files randomly that are rated 4-5 Star with ~1000 titles
- play flac files randomly that are rated 5 Star with ~2200 titles

Surprisingly I am hearing only the same songs of the same 3-5 Bands with very little variations.

I can not see/find any mistake on my side in terms of setup of the AutoPlay Lists.
So I would like to know, whether you also have similar problems.

When I listen i.e. to the same set of files in my car, then I really get random files which is very nice.

So .. why does it work so bad for me in MusicBee ?

Does MusicBee perhaps use a "random" library function of Microsoft, that is maybe only in Windows 7 not so well working ?
Or could this be a particular problem of Musicbee version 2.5 ?

What are your experiences with playing random in MusicBee ?

Best would be to add the information MusicBee Version and OS version, to maybe recognize a certain "pattern" better, whether this is more OS or MusicBee related.

Many thanks for your kind support upfront.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: 2 wishes
« on: April 06, 2015, 07:51:25 PM »
I found the solution. See also the last posts in this thread, where somebody supported me.
http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=64628&st=425&start=425

There are several issues which hindered the program to run properly inside of MusicBee:

1. besides the DLL files also flac.cl is required. Its looks like C Code, so I thought this is only for docu purposes, but its actually used during runtime

2. I copied the 4 DLL files to 4 different places in the hope to get it work...
C:\Program Files (x86)\MusicBee\Codec
C:\Program Files (x86)\MusicBee
C:\Windows\System32
C:\Windows\SysWOW64
I additionally copied now the flac.cl to these 4 location. Its still an open topic for me to identify, whether codec directory is sufficient.

3. it turned out when using the converter on the commandline, then also higher optimizations (-9 - -11) are possible. But then additionally the -lax option needds to be set. Higher optimization/compression than -8 turned out not to be possible when being called from within MusicBee.

4. when being called from within Musicbee then you need another commandline option, which was not required when being used in the DOS box. On the DOS box the converter can even read properly from stdin, without the need of the additional option --ignore-chunk-sizes.

5. inside of Musicbee you need to use --ignore-chunk-sizes as parameter, and higher levels than -8 are not possible, then conversion doesnt run.

The settings inside of MusicBee to make it work were for me (-> Settings -> File Converter):
- maximum Encoder Threads: 6 up to 9 (I would say this is CPU and Disk i/o dependend)
- use the converter from within MusicBees codec subdirectory where the converter, the DLLs and the flac.cl (!!) need to reside (remember my open topic, I need to validate, that it can be this directory exclusively, at the moment I have this spread around 4 locations):
   C:\Program Files (x86)\MusicBee\Codec\CUETools.FLACCL.cmd.exe
- use the following arguments: -q -8 --ignore-chunk-sizes --opencl-type GPU --opencl-platform "NVIDIA CUDA" - -o [outputfile]

6. If you have an AMD graphic card, then you might need another cmd line option: --opencl-platform "AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing"

First findings in regards to performance.

With my GTX 980 I am getting an avg. GPU utilization up to 14% with few peaks up to 20%, depends on the number of encoder threads.
When converting the same APE files to FLAC with Encoders from 1..9 for my machine ~7 encoders utilize CPU and GPU best.
Using 8-9 encoders results still in some more files, but not that dramatic.
With 1 encoders I get 18, with 2 encoders I get 32 files converted within a minute.
The difference between using 6-9 encoders is only within 4-10 files more per additional encoder.

I made a 1st real life performance test by looking how many of my APE files I get converted within 4 minutes.
With FLACCL I get 314 files of 7,36 GB size in total. CPU utilization between 51-73, GPU between 2-14%.
With normal FLAC I get only 185 files of 4,47 GB size in total. CPU utilization between 37-68%, GPU of course 0%.

To convert 314 files, which FLACCL did in 4 minutes, the normal FLAC programm needs 6m35s, which is 65% more.
The size difference between the 314 files is very low 7,36 GB (FLACCL) vs 7,37 GB (flac).

So the only motivation to use this program is for speed if you have a big conversion job or if you simply like the idea being able to offload work to the GPU.

Thanks for your response and I hope you get it running as well, as it appears to me that you also spend some time on this.




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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: 2 wishes
« on: April 06, 2015, 02:48:03 PM »
I tried it already with single quotes, no change. On the commandline both is possible, either single or double quotes.

The tool defaults to use the GPU ( --opencl-type GPU). If I do not specify which platform to use (amd or nvidia) then this happens:

Win7>CUETools.FLACCL.cmd.exe -o audio.flac audio.wav
[...]
Error: no OpenCL devices found that matched filter criteria.

In the DOS box I validated already, that reading input from a pipeline works using these commands. Doesn't work inside MusicBee though ..
type audio.wav | CUETools.FLACCL.cmd.exe -q -8 --opencl-platform "NVIDIA CUDA" -o audio.flac -
type audio.wav | CUETools.FLACCL.cmd.exe -q -8  --opencl-type GPU --opencl-platform "NVIDIA CUDA" -o audio.flac -

An additional idea, I try to use the CPU for conversion, then I do not require to specify the platform type,
which has the space in it ("NVIDIA CUDA") to exclude any problem in regards to potential quoting issues inside MusicBee.
But this also does not change anything.  I tested it with these argument
-q -8 --opencl-type CPU - -o [outputfile]

Location of the minus sign "-" can be before or after the -o option, this I tested already on the command line.
So its also not the order of the arguments.

I have a certain feeling that it has to do with the DLL files.
Do you think MusicBee finds them in this directory ? C:\Program Files (x86)\MusicBee\Codec ??

EDIT: I copied now the 4 DLLs (CUETools.Codecs.dll, CUETools.Codecs.FLACCL.dll, CUETools.Codecs.FLAKE.dll, OpenCLNet.dll) even to the Windows System folder. As I was not sure, whether those files are 32 or 64bit I copied them to both directories (System32 and SysWOW64) and rebooted. No change still doesn't work.

BTW registration of those DLLs - should this be required - in both directories using the proper tool failed as well.
Error message was: "Das Modul C:\Windows\System32\CUETools.Codecs.dll wurde geladen, aber der DllRegister-Eingangspunkt wurde nicht gefunden. Stellen Sie sicher, dass C:\Windows\System32\CUETools.Codecs.dll eine gültige .DLL oder .OCX Datei ist, und wiederholen Sie den Vorgang."

REM If the DLL is 32 bit: Copy the DLL to C:\Windows\SysWoW64\
%windir%\SysWoW64\regsvr32.exe %windir%\SysWoW64\CUETools.Codecs.dll
%windir%\SysWoW64\regsvr32.exe %windir%\SysWoW64\CUETools.Codecs.FLACCL.dll
%windir%\SysWoW64\regsvr32.exe %windir%\SysWoW64\CUETools.Codecs.FLAKE.dll
%windir%\SysWoW64\regsvr32.exe %windir%\SysWoW64\OpenCLNet.dll
REM if the DLL is 64 bit: Copy the DLL to C:\Windows\System32\
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\CUETools.Codecs.dll
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\CUETools.Codecs.FLACCL.dll
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\CUETools.Codecs.FLAKE.dll
%windir%\System32\regsvr32.exe %windir%\System32\OpenCLNet.dll

EDIT2: I found out via google that the regsvr32 error message appears, because these DLLs seem to be plain "C DLLs" no "OLE DLLs". So normal "C DLLs" do not need to be registered, they will be found automatically in \windows\system32 ....

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: 2 wishes
« on: April 06, 2015, 11:44:12 AM »
I asked on their forum as well. But as the converter works on the commandline I assume this could also be a MusicBee related issue. So I hope for support on this forum as well, be it to get info how to be able to troubleshoot this better or maybe a pointer towards a working solution ...

I personally have 2 suspicions .. maybe somebody from this forum has an idea
1. maybe there is a problem to load the DLLs which are required for the converter.
2. maybe there is a problem with the commandline option
--opencl-platform "NVIDIA CUDA"
which has a space in it ...

Unfortunately MusicBee doesn't write something useful to the error log which can be viewed via "Help -> Support -> Show Error-Log" (translated from German, might be not 100% accurate).

Do you know perhaps where its possible to enabled some more verbose logging ?
I tried the latest release candidate 2.5.5524, problem persists.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: 2 wishes
« on: April 06, 2015, 10:20:26 AM »
Update: maybe I should post this now to an issue thread, as this has nothing to do with wishlist.

In regards to CUETools.FLACCL.cmd.exe ... FLAC converter with OpenCL support.

I found the issue, I used the wrong command line parameters.

Nevertheless I still experience the problem, that this converter does not run inside MusicBee, on the DOS Box it runs very well and performant.

The results are amazing: the converter converts a 310 MB wave file in 2.8 seconds using ~20% of my GPU (GTX980).

I am currently using MusicBee 2.4.5404.

I copied the executeable of all DLLs which belong to the program to the codec subdirectory.
I also copied all the DLLs to the \Windows\system32 folder and rebooted.
Nothing helps so far.
I copied and pasted the commandline arguments between MusicBee Converter setup and the commandline to verify, that no synthat error occurrs. No luck so far.

When I start the conversion by right clicking to a file inside MusicBee Playlist (-> send to -> Format-converter), then I get after conversion the following error message in the right column "Status" of the File Converter Windows "Fehlgeschlagen: No output file was produced: check the encodeing command line parameters which may be incorrectly configured in the File Converter preferences".

The converter settings I use now for FLAC
-q -8 --opencl-type GPU --opencl-platform "NVIDIA CUDA" -o [outputfile] -

If you want to try this on your own

Homepage of author:
http://audiophilesoft.ru/load/coders_utils/flaccl/7-1-0-68

Download Link for latest version 2.1.6:
http://audiophilesoft.ru/commandline/flaccl/FLACCL_2.1.6.7z

Possible commandline options:
http://audiophilesoft.ru/commandline/flaccl/switches.txt

Discussion thread on the forum:
http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=64628

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: 2 wishes
« on: April 05, 2015, 10:47:13 PM »
currently I want to switch with many files from APE to FLAC format and conversion takes a while ... while converting the disk became full, because the source files do not get deleted once the conversion was successfully. I am missing an option for this scenario, when diskspace is "tight". Would it be possible for you to implement this ?

This exists. Change the option to "Replace source file".

I used this option and I assume deleting the old .ape files will be done last ... but then the disk is already full and all gets stuck.

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MusicBee Wishlist / 2 wishes
« on: April 05, 2015, 06:41:56 PM »
Hi,

currently I want to switch with many files from APE to FLAC format and conversion takes a while ... while converting the disk became full, because the source files do not get deleted once the conversion was successfully. I am missing an option for this scenario, when diskspace is "tight". Would it be possible for you to implement this ?

I would be glad, if the audio converter could get GPU support to be able to use the full power of my system when having big conversion batches. Am having a GTX 980. Tried FLACCL (http://www.cuetools.net/wiki/FLACCL) but unfortunately this does't work, am getting an error message when trying to convert a .wav file with it: "CreateDefaultContext: No OpenCL devices found that matched filter criteria."
Any plans to implement something like this ?

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Questions / Re: v2.3 - Miniplayer bigger than in previous version
« on: July 17, 2014, 11:55:05 AM »
Indeed, I must have done something wrong. Sorry for the false alarm and thanks !

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Questions / How to display Artist Information in a separate TAB ?
« on: July 12, 2014, 11:27:24 AM »
Hi,

in an older version of Music Bee it was possible to add a tab which shows artist information about the currently played track.

It was also possible to store the window arrangement in a kind of config file just for the display settings.

Meanwhile I lost my special config with this additional TAB ... So I need to configure the settings again from scratch but do not get it managed.

I found now a way to create an additional TAB, but do not get the clue what the next steps are to display in this new TAB the artist information.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/96192996/MusicBee-TAB.jpg

Once done how is it possible to save this customized view ? I think the menue to save display configuration vanished ... at least I didn't find it.

Thanks for any help.



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