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Plugins / Re: Discogs Tagger

« on: July 06, 2019, 07:10:38 AM »

Does this plugin still work, or.. how do you use it? I'm using the plugin posted a few comments up and version 3.2.6902. Doing the auto-tag by album still only brings up Musicbrainz data, despite Discogs being the first in priority. In particular I'm going through classical music and doing it by hand is pretty slow, and Discogs has the information Musicbrainz doesn't.

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Tips and Tricks / Re: Managing (levels of) classical music works using MusicBee and MusicBrainz Picard

« on: July 03, 2019, 03:54:45 AM »

Yeesh. I just leave the song titles as they are, make the composer the album artist, the symphony or orchestra as artists, and the conductor as composer since I wouldn't use conductor for anything else. Then again, I suppose we don't have a massive classical collection, and I'm left unsure what to do with classical compilation albums, but they also tend to not have conductor or symphony information anyways.

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Questions / Re: Remote library over Wifi/internet?

« on: June 30, 2019, 06:25:56 PM »

I use Subsonic for this. Computer streaming is free, but it's $1 a month for phone streaming. It handles my musicbee library just fine, and there's a plugin that allows Musicbee to also stream from subsonic.

Yet another post here that doesn't give me any notification... thanks, I haven't heard of that, I'll check it out. A plugin for Musicbee is also great since it's so customizeable.

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Questions / Re: Sort by album artist and release year?

« on: June 30, 2019, 06:09:57 PM »

Click the title of the panel (Albums if you have that view selected), Sort by, Define custom sorting.

I sort by artist, then original year, then year. But, since I have MP3 and FLAC in my library, I need to normalize the original year tags. So, I use a virtual tag called "sort original year" using the following:

Code

$Date(<Original Year>,yyyy-MM-dd)

I used to have to do the same with year, but Steven eliminated the need for that some time ago.

Argh! Why does this forum not give any notifications?

I think I'm still a tad confused. I have my original year going by just the 4 digit year since I don't care as much about exact release dates, but trying to use the custom sorting isn't really working for me.


Going by album artist and then original year doesn't seem to be working, unless I'm doing something wrong somehow.


Edit; Okay, I think I get it now. The custom sorting doesn't auto apply itself, so after I set it up I then need to enable it it the custom sorting drop-down menu. Not explicitly clear, but I guess it works.

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Questions / Sort by album artist and release year?

« on: June 28, 2019, 02:44:53 AM »

Basically I want the albums under artists to be chronological release years. I don't know how they're sorted by default because they aren't alphabetical either.

I have the albums displaying the "Original Year" since otherwise they would be the release dates of the the CD re-release which isn't helpful. I want the albums under Alan Parsons Project to be chronological, starting with Tales of Mystery (1976) and ending with Best of Vol. 2. (1987)

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Questions / Re: How do you / is there a way to lock the column widths & fields?

« on: June 28, 2019, 02:35:41 AM »

The best I've done is eyeball it. At least it remembers them so you don't have to change it every time. It's also useful to have some tabs laid out a bit differently for music cleanup n such

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Questions / Remote library over Wifi/internet?

« on: June 11, 2019, 08:06:13 PM »

I don't know if this is currently possible, but we have a large music library that's currently running through Plex, but it's not really optimal for music.
It would be nice to be able to remotely access the hard drive from another PC or over the internet so we could listen to it while we work.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: 'Search Internet for Picture' hotkey

« on: May 08, 2019, 09:44:16 PM »

Hate to bring a dead topic to life, but is there still no way to do this with a hotkey? I prefer the way MusicBee does it since it shows multiple sources instead of adding the first it finds.

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Questions / Re: Get CD metadata from RIP

« on: May 01, 2019, 10:22:29 PM »

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+media+player+metadata+database

It appears to be from their own metadata servers. Which it seems they are planning to shut down...

https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/27/changes-to-windows-media-center-and-player-metadata-service/
https://windowsreport.com/windows-media-player-album-info/

That's disappointing. I still think MS started to sabotage WMP though since it used to work perfectly fine and only since the release of Win10 have I had problems with it. Maybe they should just hand the data over to MusicBrainz or something.

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Questions / Re: Get CD metadata from RIP

« on: May 01, 2019, 07:58:11 PM »

Musicbee is much faster, but it's not pulling any metadata from the disc,

There's no metadata on a Red Book standard CD. All metadata is downloaded from metadata sources.

You need to look at which metadata sources your ripping tools are using.

Well then I wonder where WMP is getting its metadata, because it typically is a lot more accurate to what's actually on the disc than Musicbrainz, and also has composer information for nearly everything.
It also gets the correct album art for nearly everything, though at a pretty poor resolution. Picard often changes a lot of data, though... not necessarily incorrect, just different, and also misses a lot of the album art that WMP gets.

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Questions / Re: Get CD metadata from RIP

« on: April 30, 2019, 02:27:08 AM »

Also, between WMP and Musicbee, the genre is different or missing in Musicbee. I've done a few more so I now know that it doesn't always require you to manually select a release, but WMP requires you to do that 0% of the time.
WMP showed a Schubert album as Classical and from 1990. Musicbee skipped the genre and showed 1989.
WMP showed Stevie Wonders Innervisions as Soul and R&B from 1973, where Musicbee required a manual release selection, has it listed as funk, and as 1991.

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Questions / Get CD metadata from RIP

« on: April 30, 2019, 02:10:16 AM »

I'm ripping my CDs and WMP is taking forever. Musicbee is much faster, but it's not pulling any metadata from the disc, while also requiring me to pick what album I have from a list to download it from the internet.

1. Every CD I've seen has composer and contributing artist information, which the majority of online databases do not. I like this information, where conversely I couldn't really give a rats ass about what label it was under, what medium, or even what release country.

2. This makes the process a lot less automatic. In WMP I can pop in a disc, have it automatically rip, get the metadata, and eject. Repeat. Musicbee requires manual input and still skips out on the information I actually want. I can toss the files in MB Picard and get that data more easily and quicker than doing it this way since I can do that in large batches.

3. It forces itself to either automatically add the rips to the library, or to the inbox... whatever that is. I don't want either of those options since I'm ripping the CD's to my desktop to transfer over to a PLEX server when it's all finished.

4. Musicbee also only allows for adding a composer to the entire album, rather than single tracks. (At the time of ripping) This doesn't really work when it comes to compilation albums or guest appearances. Even for Blow By Blow by Jeff Beck there's other artists attributed to certain songs as composers



Musicbee is a LOT quicker at ripping songs to the point where it probably would be best to then manually enter in the information I actually want, but it's certainly less than ideal. Is there any solution to these issues?