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Portable Devices / Solution to Android 10 Playlist Syncing Issue
« on: April 15, 2020, 06:26:27 AM »
PATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED BY STEVEN BUT NEEDS TO BE MANUALLY APPLIED.

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=30862
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=30840.0

PATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED BY STEVEN BUT NEEDS TO BE MANUALLY APPLIED.


So i finally figured out how to solve the issue with playlists turning up empty on android 10 after syncing.

Short and simple, the file addresses in the playlist file (m3u) need to be using the UNIX style file addresses, aka a forward slash with a relative address.

Basically

This will not work:

C:\Users\Veer\Music\3 Doors Down\3 Doors Down\3 Doors Down - CitizenSoldier.mp3

But this will:

../Music/3 Doors Down/3 Doors Down/3 Doors Down - CitizenSoldier.mp3

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I've started manually running my playlists through a find and replace tool to get my phone to pick them up, but to say that is a hassle is an understatement.

Mediamonkey already allows playlists to be formatted in the manner when syncing, however, Mediamonkey needs to recopy every song every time it syncs... That is just insane.

So under device syncing options in Musicbee, an option to have playlists sync with relative file addresses ../ and unix style file addresses / would solve the problem.

The current relative style address Mediamonkey uses omits the two dots at the beginning of each address, and that prevents the playlist from working.

Regards.

PATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED BY STEVEN BUT NEEDS TO BE MANUALLY APPLIED.

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=30862
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=30840.0

PATCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED BY STEVEN BUT NEEDS TO BE MANUALLY APPLIED.

LINK TO PATCH HERE:
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee33_Patched.zip

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Questions / Playlist file paths
« on: April 07, 2020, 08:34:25 PM »
So musicbee has two option for storing internal playlists

M3U and MBP

Currently I use M3U as external programs can also read the playlists and play music from them.

I want to use Universal Media Server to host my music playlists out to the network.

The problem is musicbee will only read the playlist's music if the file paths are absolute and Universal media server (UMS) will only read the playlist's music if the file paths are relative.

i.e.

This will not work in UMS but will work in Musicbee
C:\Users\Veer\Music\V.New Music\Zac Brown Band - Homegrown.mp3

This will work in UMS but not in Musicbee
..\Music\V.New Music\Zac Brown Band - Homegrown.mp3

I already brought up the issue in the UMS forum. However I would like to know if anyone knows of an option or trick to get Musicbee to use relative paths on internal m3u playlists.

The help would be greatly appreciated.

(I recently tried out JRiver and it is excellent, however for media syncing to my phone and walkman, its a pile of horseshit. The only things missing from Musicbee that jriver does well is media serving via DLNA and Jriver has a nice Now Playing screen & HTPC mode. The Now Playing screen and HTPC modes are mainly cosmetic though they do help redicve TV burn in, so i can live without it, however I am trying augment musicbee with UMS to get network streaming going)

THIS IS MY POST ON THE UMS FORUMS

https://www.universalmediaserver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=14069&p=41174#p41174

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I know this has been asked before... poorly. But i figured i'd try again.

I was just forced to switch to mbee from wmp12 as my new zenphone 6 is unable to play playlists synced from wmp12. mbee walks in the door, saves my bacon with m3u syncing and relative filepaths ftw.

I even discover, that if i install mbee on another machine, like my HTPC and point mbee back to the MusicBeeLibrary.mbl on my main desktop, i can remotely access and edit my music library from any machine in my house.

The one downside im noticing is there is no way i can find to:

1) Make a visualization or now playing screen go full screen (to avoid burn in to my TV but also look pretty and impress my friends)

2) keep the monitor awake during music playback. (because if the pc puts the monitor to sleep, the audio feed is disabled over HDMI and the music stops coming through the speakers.

Now this software is damn flexible and I love it. I'm currently using some workarounds:

1) I have a power profile switcher sitting in the system tray so i can switch between high performance (never turn screen off) and balanced (turn screen of after 30 mins)

2) Pray (to avoid burn in) ROFL

Any way, im just throwing this out there, a toggle in preferences to keep screen on during music playback (keeping the default behaviour as is would be fine imho) and a way to have milkdrop 2 play on the now playing screen and/or run it full screen would be pretty sweet.

Thank you guys so much for this wonderful piece of software and keep up the amazing work.

PS: Now that I think about it i'd place heavier emphasis on the full screen viz, as i could set my system to keep screen on always and leave the viz in full screen. That would eliminate the burn in :D

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