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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging and Reporting Tools

« on: December 13, 2017, 02:14:21 PM »

And the fact that when you tick the preset, the two options
Auto apply preset only if track is contained in playlist
and
Ask confirmation before autoapplying this preset
are suddenly available to select, should have been a deadset giveaway that the preset was going to be auto applied.

"Ask confirmation before autoapplying this preset" - I don't see that option

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging and Reporting Tools

« on: December 13, 2017, 02:11:48 PM »

I see now that you do not need to tick an item in the list in order for the lower dialog to work - the screen in effect does two jobs.

The author has differentiated the two behaviours by referring to highlighting and ticking, however he uses "Select" to mean highlight - for many users confronted with a list of tick boxes and the instruction (select), they would tick the item.

The second sentence: "TICK PRESETS..." then makes no sense at all - mainly because the idea that an advanced tag edit screen would continue to operate behind the scenes when the dialog is closed is VERY unusual. I would suspect UNIQUE. Normally a user expects that when a dialog (except for those labelled settings/preferences/options) is closed, it ceases to operate. A "Search and Replace" dialog certainly falls into this category. It doesn't help that it's hard to imagine WHY someone would want it to behave in the way it does.

I should point out, I'm an experienced Software Tester - I've worked for Financial Organisations & Ecommerce developing desktop and web applications. I'm not clueless.
I approached this screen cautiously, to see what it did and how - operating on a playlist of a handful of tracks that I could easily replace if things went wrong.


SO at the very least, change the layout/wording on that screen to make it clear.

"HIGHLIGHT preset below to edit or apply to selected tracks. (In red) TICK presets you want to ALWAYS AUTOMATICALLY invoke whenever tags change in MusicBee."


On closing the dialog, if any remain ticked, a warning window should pop up to say (presets ticked -these will continue to be applied OK?)


These are simple changes to make and could save another user a lot of grief.

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Bug Reports / Tag history not working

« on: December 12, 2017, 02:51:40 PM »

Tag history not working:


MusicBee v3.1.6546.37911 (Win6.1), 12 Dec 2017 14:50:

System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Roaming\MusicBee\Tag Backups\DJ Music - Baseline.bbl'.
File name: 'C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Roaming\MusicBee\Tag Backups\DJ Music - Baseline.bbl'
   at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
   at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost)
   at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share)
   at MusicBeePlugin.BackupType.Load(String fileName, String backupFileExtension)
   at MusicBeePlugin.TagHistoryPlugin.fillTable(String folder, Boolean includeSubfolders, Int32 maxBackupCount, Int32 trackIndex, Boolean reuseCache)
   at MusicBeePlugin.TagHistoryPlugin.TagHistoryPlugin_Shown(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnShown(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CallShownEvent()
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbackDo(ThreadMethodEntry tme)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbackHelper(Object obj)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state, Boolean preserveSyncCtx)
   at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallback(ThreadMethodEntry tme)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.InvokeMarshaledCallbacks()

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging and Reporting Tools

« on: December 12, 2017, 02:50:54 PM »

Well - yes I've figured that out, but that's surely a bug.

If intentional it's totally dumb as it's totally counter-intuitive. I cannot think of a use case in which such operation was desirable, yet there are lots of cases where it's undesirable!

It's fortunate I discovered this "feature" early on - I hate to think what would have happened if I'd done a radical operation in there intending it to operate on one file, and then done a bulk edit to add a new field.


If it's intended that the operation remain like this, then you NEED a warning on that GUI to state this is the case.

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Questions / Re: How do I count artists?

« on: December 12, 2017, 12:31:40 PM »

Awesome - thanks - worked a treat

111

Questions / How do I count artists?

« on: December 12, 2017, 11:14:52 AM »

I entered some Artists as "Artist 1;Artist 2;Artist 3" etc.

I attempted to use filter expressions to look for Artists with ";" and some didn't show up.

When I look at them in mp3Tag they show as Artist 1//Artist 2//Artist 3

In musicBee I notice they are now listed as separate Artists in the edit window which is why I guess the filter ignored them.

Id like to filter tracks that have multiple artists. How can I do this?

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Plugins / Re: Additional Tagging and Reporting Tools

« on: December 12, 2017, 11:11:51 AM »

I'm running the latest copy of plugin and musicbee, but there's a problem.

I used one of the functions in Adv Srch & Repl to modify the Title,adding (ex) to the end of the title for selected tracks.

Then later I noticed that whenever I edited a track's metadata using the STANDARD editor, the Title was also modified with (ex).

I used Adv Srch & Repl again to clean up the mess made and remove the excess (ex)'s.

Now when i try to add (ex) back for certain tracks in the Standard editor, I can't!

Only when I went back into Adv Srch & repl and unselected the template And clicked APPLY, was I able to edit my tracks without interference.

My guess is that whatever means you are using to inject the editing code into MusicBee is being left switched on when the Adv Srch & Replace window is closed.

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Bug Reports / Playlist field is missing information

« on: December 06, 2017, 01:07:01 PM »

In my library, created using the latest version of MusicBee 3.1.6512, I created lots of playlists and added tracks to them.

I then discovered the Playlist column and added it to the Main Window - it was empty for most tracks.
This also means that when I right click on a file and choose Search->Find in Playlists, none appear, even though the track IS in playlists.

I found some posts about deleting a pidx file from the Music Library Root, but no such file exists.

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Bug Reports / Cant modify custom tags in the main window unless they're Strings

« on: December 06, 2017, 01:02:32 PM »

Using latest version.

Create custom tag and set the Data Type to Rating or Number. Clicking on the field in the Music List has no effect. On same track other fields are editable in this way, including Custom Fields with String Data Type.
Changing the affected fields to String makes them modifiable. Changing them back makes them readonly once more.

The only way to change the value of these fields is via the Edit Dialog window.

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Questions / Custom Rating tags not editable

« on: December 05, 2017, 06:50:55 PM »

I've created some custom rating tags.

I've added them to the main Music window.

When I want to edit a file's metadata I can click on any other field and I can then edit it, but not on these custom tags- if I want to set a value, I have to right click, select edit, and then enter the data into the  required field when the dialog appears. Other custom tags I've created with text types ARE editable directly in the list.
Conversely, the ID3 "rating" tag IS also editable.


So it appears that only Custom Tags with a type of Rating aren't editable.


Am I missing something, or is this just how it is?