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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee does not read tags from some mp3 files when they use the ID3v2.4

« on: July 23, 2020, 11:32:13 PM »

Hi Steven i use the latest 3.4 version, i'm still facing the same problem with various files!



Tag inspector gives me this.

Code

System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
   at #=zij0K4i_MOAe8AaGRphtnFcw=.#=zK4Lrx5Kd50zh(#=zXkA5ol8ciXaKB6WwwdBL0iY= #=ze2KoGrEbGDdn)

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MusicBee Wishlist / Track Information on the Main Player when Wave Bar is selected!

« on: July 23, 2020, 05:28:01 PM »

As i mentioned earlier when you select the Wave Bar instead of progress bar track information is missing form the main Player.

If you select to use the wave bar instead of the progress bar the track information are not available.

Steven informed me about that

Thats expected behaviour. The playing track information is displayed in the status bar when a wavebar is displayed in the player controls panel

I would love to be able to use the Wave Bar but to also keep the Track information in the Player instead of moving them to Status Bar

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Skins / Is there any value to edit only the Horizontal Scroll Bar of the main Panel?

« on: July 23, 2020, 02:06:34 PM »

Hi, I'm trying to find a way to edit only the Horizontal Scroll Bar of the Main Panel in an xmlc file using the secondary xml file method.
So i wonder if there is any value which only affects the specific bar.






Something else i noticed is that the mini player rating stars are not affected by the code below (colour is not changing). Is this a bug/

Code

<element id="MiniPlayer.StarRating.Default" fg="Value" />
<element id="MiniPlayer.StarRating.Lowlight" fg="Value" />

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Skins / Re: QuillR

« on: July 22, 2020, 08:53:40 PM »

The only thing i would change is the scroll bars...

Hmmm...

If you want to put your xml on a download site and put a link to it here, I'd be OK with that but please don't obliterate this thread with images as they won't relate to the original skin.

As for the mini player stars, these are (to the best of my memory) auto-calculated by MB.

The Love button and all other components in the player are set by unique bitmap images which are encoded in the xmlc file so they can't be overridden. The rating stars for this skin are picked up from the element coding so they have changed when you changed the main panel stars.

It's actually your fault Clarence, you showed me the way...  
A little bit of reading and your help was enough to put me into the theme customization.

Sorry but i couldn't resist.

To tell you the truth i am a Dj so i need some elements to be clear and unique. Coloring the rating and love button does exactly that. Although i love your theme.  

By the way i got you about the pics.

Thank you for the explanations, i was trying to figure out what i was doing wrong, as it seems i wasn't.

I will upload the xml later...

Once again thank you for everything!


You can find the modificarion XML HERE

Probably there are some not so useful parts of  code in there...  

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Skins / Re: QuillR

« on: July 22, 2020, 05:43:04 PM »

HI Clarence,

I've made some Adjustments to your theme using the method above (xml).

If you don't have a problem i can upload the xml and paste the link here in case someone wants to use it.


I can't figure out how to change Player's Love Button, the code below doesn't seem to work

    

Code

<element id="PlayerLastFmLove">NEW CODE PASTED HERE</element>
<element id="PlayerLastFmLoveBright">NEW CODE PASTED HERE</element>
<element id="PlayerLastFmNotLove">NEW CODE PASTED HERE</element>

Something else i can't figure out is how to change the Star rating color in mini player mode.

MiniPlayer.StarRating.Default and MiniPlayer.StarRating.Lowlight don't seem to work.


The picture below represents QuillR Theme by Clarence with some modifications i've made!

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Skins / Re: QuillR

« on: July 21, 2020, 02:19:24 PM »

SpirosG,

The only thing i would change is the scroll bars, if you use a laptop with the lowest screen brightness is really difficult to see them, so i think that something like a blue outline on them would be helpfull.

I won't make a permanent change but there is a way around it if you find it helpful...use a piggy-back sheet to call the QuillR skin but override the scrollbar edges.

Here's the code which should be in a text file such as  QuillR_ScrollEdges.xml and then placed in the same location on your computer as the QuillR_dark.xmlc file.

Code

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--	Document Name: Overlay For - ScrollBar Edges - QuillR_dark  -->
<!--	Clarence   -->

<root dependsOn="QuillR_dark.xmlc">

<variables>
		SBar =  "26,31,39"
		Outline = "94,129,172"
</variables>

<colours id="Default">
		<element id="Panel.ScrollBar.Default" bg="SBar" bg2="SBar" bdr="Outline" />
		<element id="Panel.ScrollBar.Lowlight" bg="SBar" bg2="SBar" bdr="Outline" />
			
			<element id="FilterPanel.ScrollBar" bg="SBar" bg2="SBar" bdr="Outline" />
			<element id="FilterPanel.ScrollBar.Lowlight" bg="SBar" bg2="SBar" bdr="Outline" />
			
					<element id="NowPlayingList.ScrollBar" bg="SBar" bg2="SBar" bdr="Outline" />
					<element id="NowPlayingList.ScrollBar.Lowlight" bg="SBar" bg2="SBar" bdr="Outline" />
  </colours>
  
</root>   

Then select this as the skin instead of the normal QuillR_dark.xmlc


In case you aren't comfortable producing it yourself, here's a link to 'one I created earlier'.

QuillR_ScrollEdges.xml

Hope this helps out.

You are the best!!!     
It Helps a lot!

Appreciated Clarence!

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Skins / Re: QuillR

« on: July 21, 2020, 11:48:39 AM »

If you select to use the wave bar instead of the progress bar the track information are not available.

Thats expected behavior. The playing track information is displayed in the status bar when a wavebar is displayed in the player controls panel

Hi Steven, thanks for the answer, i wasn't aware of it. Is there any chance for a modification to this behavior?

@Steven Thanks for responding, I didn't receive a notification on this post yet and just spotted it by chance.

@SpirosG Other than the above, I'm glad you like the skin.

Hi Clarence, amazing work mate.

The only thing i would change is the scroll bars, if you use a laptop with the lowest screen brightness is really difficult to see them, so i think that something like a blue outline on them would be helpfull.

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Skins / Re: QuillR

« on: July 21, 2020, 12:23:25 AM »

Hi, Great skin!!

There is a bug.

If you select to use the wave bar instead of the progress bar the track information are not available.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Fix/Creating Playlist even from a Plain text.

« on: July 09, 2020, 02:03:10 PM »

So i was trying to find out a way to create some playlists quickly from different web sources (ex. beatport) from plain text in form of
Artist - Title.

During my search i found out a script for MM which called Recreate-M3U but this requires to have MM installed and maintain two libraries. Then i found an independent tool called ListFix() which is 85% accurate.

Although both are working in a really successful way i would prefer to keep using only Musicbee to manage my music, also this seems to be a really useful function and it would make Musicbee an absolute beast on playlist creation.

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Questions / Re: Create playlist from Beatport Top100 or a text file in form of Artist - Title?

« on: July 09, 2020, 12:35:46 PM »

There is another independent Tool which is able to do a pretty good job actually.


Here you can find ListFIx()

Is there any chance to implement a similar function in MusicBee also @Steven?

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Bug Reports / Inline tag editing bug.

« on: July 06, 2020, 05:03:38 PM »

Hi,

When you try to edit tags inline (it often happens with comment tag to me) for an unknown reason although the window is activated whenever i start typing it loses it's focus after 1-2 keystrokes, it exits the inline edit  mode and whatever i typed disappears.
Usually this happens if you try to type immaterially when the inline tag edit is activated.


update


It's actually losing focus even if you don't type anything.



Update 2


After some testing i think that the problem is happening when "Automatically refresh matching tracks" is enabled on the playlist that the track belongs.




Update 3

Now that the "Automatically refresh matching tracks" is deselected whenever i try to rate a song the list is flickering and sometimes it jumps to the first song (Top).

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Questions / Re: Create playlist from Beatport Top100 or a text file in form of Artist - Title?

« on: July 06, 2020, 01:33:06 PM »

I found that there is a Mediamonkey script called Recreate M3U 2.4 which is trying to do that (create playlist from plain text). But i wouldn't like to mess with 2 different programs.

If it was possible to achieve something like that within Musicbee would be superior.

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Questions / Create playlist from Beatport Top100 or a text file in form of Artist - Title?

« on: July 06, 2020, 12:04:36 AM »

So i wonder if there is any way to automatically create playlists based on Beatport's Top 100 or if it's possible to create a text file in form of "Artist - Title" (Image) and let Musicbee to auto create a playlist based on this kind of "lists"

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Questions / Re: Can I have your opinion about this idea - "Tag by a click"?

« on: July 03, 2020, 11:56:39 PM »

I found this idea pretty clever actually and it would save a lot of time for DJs like me.
I usually write comments to my tracks this requires some time to write them but if we have this kind of panel with "custom" tags ready to be inserted by one click will be a life saver

in the image bellow you can see some of my comments, adding them by a simple click would be amazing.

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Questions / Re: Is it possible to resize the inline tag edit "pop up" window?

« on: July 03, 2020, 09:37:52 PM »

HI @Steven,

Any chance to add a setting to for this?