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MusicBee Wishlist / Improved Allmusic album and biography lookup.

« on: November 05, 2011, 09:31:33 PM »

In Foobar I used two vbs scripts to retrieve the album and biography articles from Allmusic. It would be great if MB could also directly get the article by using similar logic instead of presenting a webpage where you have to search for the correct result.

As far as I can see the scripts just search for the artist and then search the results again for the album or biography info. For me, it nearly always gets the right results and implementing this in MB would make the Allmusic lookups a lot more comfortable.

thanks!

PS The scripts aren't copyrighted but I'm still reluctant to post them here. I'll gladly PM the link to the public forum where they were posted by the author or send them directly.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Sort files when adding them to a playlist

« on: November 05, 2011, 05:04:41 PM »

Thanks!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Sort files when adding them to a playlist

« on: November 04, 2011, 06:05:26 PM »

Files stored on my NAS get added to MB as served by the folder structure instead of sorted. So an album get get a tracklist of

3
5
2
7
1

etc.

instead of a sorted version. Please add a feature to sort the files upon adding. Thanks!

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Use albumgain when transcoding

« on: November 02, 2011, 11:28:49 PM »

I assumed that the level volume meant that it was MusicBee's own thing but it's already working the way I would like it to do. 

Thanks for the prompt reply.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Use albumgain when transcoding

« on: November 02, 2011, 08:35:08 PM »

I would like to see an option to use the albumgain tag (if present) instead of having Musicbee compute this. This would save time when synchronizing and songs without an album in the tag would get a proper volume.

For a example: when a band has songs which first appeared as a single I don't add an album tag and put them in a singles folder. Because those tracks can have different masterings, applying album gain would produce incorrect results. An other solution would be to calculate track gain when no album info is present. But if a collection has correct album gains (as in my case) I would prefer the first option.

thanks!

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Portable Devices / Re: Musicbee hangs on transcoding specific songs

« on: November 02, 2011, 08:19:02 PM »

Thanks! It's working fine now.

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Portable Devices / Re: Musicbee hangs on transcoding specific songs

« on: October 29, 2011, 09:06:51 PM »

Good to hear that you've been able to reproduce the problem. An update later this week would be great.

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Portable Devices / Re: Musicbee hangs on transcoding specific songs

« on: October 29, 2011, 08:32:40 PM »

I also think it's a decoding and not and encoding issue because lame.exe doesn't show up in procmon.

I've just tried to play these songs but I saw that bass_aac.dll needs to be added. After that, two files out of four in this folder hang upon playing and the cpu usage goes up. So it seems that these files are misidentified as AAC instead of ALAC. The files have been encoded with QAAC 0.47 and Quicktime 7.6.9.

I'll upload one of them and send you a PM with the link.

Thanks for looking into this!

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Portable Devices / Re: Musicbee hangs on transcoding specific songs

« on: October 29, 2011, 07:35:06 PM »

I've just decoded all the four files in this directory to wav and run lame.exe from the codecs directory to encode them. This worked without any problems.

Maybe I could try this again if I could use the same parameters as Musicbee uses (Portable Device Listening)?

It's strange though that only these files are failing because I converted all my FLAC files in one go to ALAC using the same encoder so I would technically consider them to be the same as the rest.

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Portable Devices / Musicbee hangs on transcoding specific songs

« on: October 29, 2011, 06:25:12 PM »

Hi,


I just installed Musicbee to sync my music collection to my Android's external SDCARD.

As I have lots of lossless files (ALAC) I've configured Musicbee to transcode them. However, Musicbee gets stuck on the encoding of three of them.

The CPU monitor clearly shows all four cores being loaded for 100% when this happens.

When I restart Musicbee again hangs on the same three files thus making it impossible to finish the sync... but easier to debug the problem 

I hope that someone can look into this, thanks!