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Questions / Re: Sort out albums with high bitrate

« on: March 21, 2020, 08:05:13 PM »

I created a short 1.5 FLAC file of pink noise using the latest version of Sound Forge that I converted to DSD (a DSF file).  If this is helpful for your test purposes, you may grab both here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/poi5z3kibexay73/Pink_Noise.flac

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/y70f7gs2xzhvul3/Pink_Noise.dsf

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Questions / Re: Where can I edit the track properties?

« on: March 21, 2020, 07:38:58 PM »

Hello MusicBees,

I wonder, where I could edit the track information, especially the bit depth as shown in picture.
On my second pc this doesn't show up...



I would love it, when the bit depth appear!

Thanx a lot.

This is my current setting:



This is the full text:

Code

<Artist> - <Title>, $IsNull(<Bit Depth>,16,<Bit Depth>)-bit audio <Bitrate> bitrate

This is what shows for all files I play that gets dynamically changed based on the particular file:



This may be close to what you are looking for.  All MP3 and OGG files that get played show as 16-bit.  This is the maximum bit depth that these files can support.

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Questions / Re: Why do the same albums always show up in my auto playlist?

« on: March 21, 2020, 11:32:45 AM »

You have to work around this issue by adding more criteria to Auto DJ to stop it from choosing the same songs.  I have noted this in the past and commented about it.  The randomization used for song selection is very predictable and results in the same selection of songs.

This is what I do to help mix things up--

* add filter criteria that prevents the same song from be repeated within X number of days
* add filter criteria that excludes specific album artists from being selected (I do this when I have a huge number of songs from a single artists that gets played too much; this is temporary and I remove this filter later)
* add filter criteria that excludes all music from a specific artist except if it is the artist's latest release; I use this lots because I have a huge music library).
* add filter criteria that specifically selects songs never before played in addition to your usual mix.  this increases the odds of new music being selected greatly.

Adding filter combinations as above have helped me hear more random selections.

MusicBee code changes to random selection is needed to fix the root cause.  This is outside of our control, but using a secure random API call helps here:  https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/c-cookbook/0596003390/ch14s07.html

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Questions / Re: Auto-DJ Loses Settings

« on: March 14, 2020, 02:18:41 PM »

On version  3.3.7367 that I am now using I am seeing behavior that I expect.  For now I cannot reproduce the issue.  I do not have details of exactly how the last song in the playlist stopped all playback.  If I can reproduce that again, I will post a follow-up.

For now I am seeing expected behavior and this version is working fine.

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Questions / Re: Auto-DJ Loses Settings

« on: March 14, 2020, 02:02:34 PM »

The first time I experienced what I am posting, I restarted MusicBee with Auto DJ no longer set for playlist showing the playlist I last used.  That was why I started the thread titled settings being lost.  The playlist still existed; however, Auto DJ had library checked off again.  This seemed odd, so I started this thread to question the behavior.

When I started to reproduce the issue taking screenshots, I restarted MusicBee with the same playlist selected under Auto DJ and Auto DJ was turned off.  There is probably additional ways to recreate MusicBee resorting to library, but I did not spend a lot of time figuring out how that happened.

Additionally, I had noticed that a newer version of MusicBee was available.  I did update to the latest available (moving from version 3.3.7310 to version 3.3.7367).

To answer the question of how I continued playback, I simply clicked on the Play button in the lower left of the Now Playing view.  I have been doing this for as long as I have used the application.  The play button here resumed playback exactly the way it was left prior to closing MusicBee.  Auto DJ was still enabled, my playlist position was intact, and everything continued as before closing the app.

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Questions / Auto-DJ Loses Settings

« on: March 13, 2020, 12:10:33 PM »

I never noticed this issue before, because I am primarily listening to electronica nowadays.  I use Auto DJ with a custom filter set for this genre.  One day I had a brilliant idea to move my custom filter into genre specific playlists.  This way I can simply change the playlist Auto DJ uses and save all these filter settings  (I was having one of my genius moments when I came up with this).

Anyway, after creating all these playlists I noticed that Auto DJ does not resume properly when I restart MusicBee.

This is Auto DJ right now as I listen to tunes:



This is what happens if I stop MusicBee then restart it:



Notice the button Start Auto DJ.  This means Auto DJ is not active.  If I play to continue listening to my music, it will reach the last tune of my playlist then stop all playback.

Does anyone know why this is suddenly happening with playlists set as the AUto DJ source?  This does not happen at all when library is the source.  I have been using these feature for a long time now, and this is a new issue I noticed when using playlist as the source.

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Questions / Re: "Recently Added Tracks Preferred" Auto-DJ Option

« on: March 05, 2020, 06:18:21 PM »

One thing I must warn you about though-- the randomization logic used in MusicBee is actually not very good.  You will find that the same songs get selected repeatedly.  You will notice this in large media libraries.  Some songs simply will never get selected, but a small few will get selected over and over.

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Questions / Re: "Recently Added Tracks Preferred" Auto-DJ Option

« on: March 05, 2020, 06:15:37 PM »

You can get this to work by not selecting "recently added tracks preferred".  Instead try selected "random" then create a custom filter.

The custom filter pop-up screen is a little complicated to figure out, but you may add or conditions to include recently added items.  This will mix recently added with older music from your library.

To add an OR condition, click this little dot here:



On the next pop-up that shows, add your criteria.  Any shown in the pick list means "OR":

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Questions / Re: Compare Musicbee & Spotify playlists

« on: February 15, 2020, 06:34:01 PM »

I also have a need to sync playlists with Spotify.  I am currently a subscriber to Soundiiz and make use of this.  What Soundiiz is good at is synchronizing playlists from one online streaming site to another.  It also supports syncing local playlists, but my experience with this has not been good at all.

What works best for me is syncing from last.fm to Spotify, so I use this the most.  In my case, it syncs last.fm tracks that I love with a new Spotify play list. It's not a general playlist sync, but syncing loved tracks gets me closer to what I want.  It has a fairly high success rate, but it is not perfect.  I use the Spotify app to verify and clean-up the newly sync'd playlist.

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Questions / Re: ISRC Tag Support

« on: February 05, 2020, 09:02:42 AM »

Those conversion tools generally never work reliably. 

I will accept that fact that MusicBee simply does not offer an XML export and use Tag&Rename that does. 

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Questions / Re: ISRC Tag Support

« on: February 02, 2020, 11:44:51 PM »

Thanks for the suggestion.

This will work if it exports to xhtml that forces a valid XML document.  I would need valid XML to make use of XML related technologies.  HTML is not valid XML but XHTML is.

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Questions / Re: ISRC Tag Support

« on: January 28, 2020, 09:04:39 PM »

Okay, and no problem.  Thank you for trying.

There are alternatives, such as Tag&Rename that has the ability to export my entire music library as an XML document allowing me to choose which tags to include.  This just require a little work on my part via XQuery and XSLT to transform to the results I require.

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Questions / Re: ISRC Tag Support

« on: January 28, 2020, 08:12:41 AM »

Do you guys posting not know the answer to my question?  You are allowed to write, "I do not know."

The question was: how can I add ISRC tag to exported playlists.

Thanks.

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Questions / Re: ISRC Tag Support

« on: January 27, 2020, 10:52:57 PM »

I'm not sure what you mean by the export playlist command.

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Questions / Re: ISRC Tag Support

« on: January 27, 2020, 10:47:00 PM »

When you set up the custom tag did you choose to save the tag to MB's database, or did you choose one of the tags in the dropdown menu? If the former, the custom tag is -not- saved with the file.

My tags are already set correctly.  They currently have ISRC contained within.  I added the custom tag choosing ISRC that already existed, and my previously saved content now shows within MusicBee.  I do not alter my tags with MusicBee.  I only use it to play my music.  I have many other tools that I use to alter my tags.