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Questions / Bitrate checkers

« on: March 12, 2022, 09:58:25 PM »

I'd be interested to know what people's experience is of bitrate checker programs and which ones seem to do the best job...

Myself, I have Fakin the Funk, which in general seems pretty accurate although can sometimes bring up false positives.

I just heard mention of Lossless Audio Checker here on the forum so gave that a try.

It doesn't have the same false positives as FTF, but one obvious problem it has is when checking classical music or "quiet" albums such as acoustic & vocal.. all my classical music came out as "upsampled" even though I know for a fact it isn't.

Ultimately, I prefer to trust my ears and can easily pick out a 320 mp3 next to a flac or wav file, although could be (and have been) fooled if all I'm hearing are 320 mp3's

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Questions / Applying DSP plugins to specific tracks

« on: March 12, 2022, 08:06:20 PM »

Hi all,

I'm very happy to see there is a VST container plugin available... can't wait to try it out.

I notice that under the settings tab for individual tracks there is an option to apply an equalizer setting for that particular track, or tracks.

My question is: is there a way to specify other DSP plugins (in particular the VST host) to be applied on specific tracks?

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Questions / Re: Where do artist backgrounds in "Now Playing" come from?

« on: October 06, 2020, 01:05:27 PM »

Thanks! I'm still not sure that's the whole story though...

Steven is the sole developer of MB. If he says that's were the artwork is coming from, that's where the artwork is coming from. If there other sources being used, Steven would know about it.

Fair enough, my apologies to Steven. Odd though, about the aforementioned "case studies".

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Questions / Re: Where do artist backgrounds in "Now Playing" come from?

« on: October 04, 2020, 02:26:56 PM »

Thanks! I'm still not sure that's the whole story though...

Case study #1 : Artist - Ed Wynne - is in my library but no background images are displayed although there are images on both bing images and fanart.tv. Artist bio does show up and is from Wikipeadia

Case study #2 : Artist - Levitation (90s psychedelic rock band) - background pictures do not come from either bing, fanart.tv or google, artist bio does not come from wikipedia

So I'm guessing there must be some other music info database that's being used?

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Questions / Re: Where do artist backgrounds in "Now Playing" come from?

« on: October 04, 2020, 02:02:01 AM »

Just a quick bump in case anyone know the answer to this? I've noticed also that some of the artist info can be quite out-of-date too - again confirming my suspicion it doesn't just come from Google. That said, there are some pretty interesting details so no complaint as such... just intrigued!

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Questions / Where do artist backgrounds in "Now Playing" come from?

« on: September 29, 2020, 03:43:46 AM »

I'm wondering where these pictures are sourced? I don't think it can be directly from Google since some artists in my library have no background pictures displayed even though there are images on Google, and for others, it comes up with pictures that cannot be found on Google.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Bulk add capability for album art

« on: September 24, 2020, 12:39:52 AM »

Let's say you have front cover, back cover, media label and a 2 booklet images for a particular album... you want to add all of these to all the files from an album, yes you can bulk-select the tracks, but as far as I'm aware, you have to drag-and-drop the images one-by-one once you have the artwork tab open.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Bulk add capability for album art

« on: September 23, 2020, 01:47:32 AM »

...rather than having to embed multiple images one-by-one. Would save a lot of time

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MusicBee Wishlist / Ability to zoom in on album artwork in the detachable window

« on: September 21, 2020, 03:02:49 AM »

...this would make it easier to read album notes on lower res images or artwork with small fonts.