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MusicBee Wishlist / Automatic start of songs with a double click in the left bar

« on: January 31, 2023, 10:58:10 AM »

If you are listening to a song and in the meantime scroll the list of artists in the left bar, but any list, by mistake, you press twice starts the first song found in the main window.
It also happens in the playlist list. You're listening to a playlist and while you're watching others you accidentally double-click and another one starts.
This leads to the interruption of listening to an album, playlist or whatever you are listening to.
In my opinion the start of a song should only be in the main window, where there is the song list.

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Bug Reports / Highlight existing texts

« on: January 30, 2023, 10:52:27 AM »

I wanted to highlight the songs with lyrics and songs that are only instrumental and songs that don't have it at all, so to insert.
As per image.



In practice, in the track list, the highlighted field changes color.


f the text is present it turns green, if the piece is only instrumental, I insert this manually, it turns yellow and if it is empty it remains red.
It always remains red even if the text is present.

If I insert the text in the file it turns green but it doesn't remain after it turns red again like there was no text but there is.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Music explorer and biographies entered manually.

« on: January 28, 2023, 03:36:19 PM »

Often entering the music explorer tells me that the artist does not exist.
It does exist but on itunes they entered the name incorrectly.
Eg Loredana Bertè they write Loredana Berte' and can't find her and so do many others, above all Italian singers or singers from other nations who are not English or USA.
I was born that the discography is often incomplete and with the wrong production year, the reissue date seems to be taken.
Among other things, he often finds photos and biographies that have nothing to do with the artist.
Among other things, being Italian, I like to read the biographies in Italian and therefore every time I have to search by hand for these in my language and insert them instead of those in English.
Having said that, couldn't we have a totally manual memorization of the artist information?

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Questions / Re: Playlist

« on: January 27, 2023, 09:37:04 AM »

After my previous post, I remembered seeing an option (which I've never used, though):
in the auto-playlist edit dialog box, in the bottom left corner:
automatically export a static copy

Fox63, it's worth giving it a try, it could do the trick for you: pseudo-tag Playlist + static copies of your auto-playlists.

I've tried this before but it doesn't seem to do anything at all.
To be honest, I don't even understand what that command does.
To be clear, I'm creating classics, 100 songs for each year, and with two fields, year and position, it makes me the rankings automatically.
Just look for the ranking e.g. 1990 in the year field and sort it all with the location field.
Unfortunately a song can appear in several years, usually the next.
I had thought of comparing which classification is selected and with that take the position that the song occupies correctly.
It's probably best to use manual playlists.
I like to try :-)
Thank you anyway.

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Questions / Re: Playlist

« on: January 26, 2023, 03:42:52 PM »

use <Playlist> or <Playlists> pseudo-tags. i don't know what's the difference between these 2 tags. also, i think that no auto-playlists will be listed in these tags.

Thank you very much.
I've seen these, let's call them variables, but they actually don't give anything if they're automatic playlists. Unfortunately I needed it for that kind of playlist, I was hoping there was more.
Thanks again.

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Questions / Playlist

« on: January 25, 2023, 10:27:19 AM »

Is there any way to know which playlist a song is in to use it in virtual tags?

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MusicBee Wishlist / Subtrack

« on: December 29, 2022, 02:11:49 PM »

Maybe it's a little complicated.
Some songs, like the turn of the friendly card by alan parson is divided into 5 sub-songs.
Usually these songs, if they have not been divided before, are merged into a single track, even by importing them from the CD.
What I wonder and wonder: it is not possible, through tags, to divide these tracks by telling MB at which point of the track to start a certain piece and contextually create the tag for those tracks that will be moved slightly to the right of the main tracks.
Maybe in pop music it's quite rare to have to split tracks but in classical music it would be really important.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Additional rows displayed for artists with huge discographies

« on: November 23, 2022, 09:43:48 AM »

+1

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Questions / Wrapping in a field

« on: November 21, 2022, 10:41:19 AM »

I hope it is translated right into English.
Is it possible to wrap in a virtual field?
Example of visualization in a single virtual field:
<author> CR (Carriage return)
<Title>

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: <album duration>

« on: November 21, 2022, 10:05:11 AM »

Are you talking about what's displayed in the status bar? If so, click once on it and it changes from, for example, "9:41:47" to "9.7 hours."

Sorry, I wasn't very clear.
I was talking about the <album duration> which is displayed, for example, in the main panel, which in the latest versions no longer shows the time in seconds but in hours.

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MusicBee Wishlist / <album duration>

« on: November 20, 2022, 05:00:20 PM »

I noticed that the album duration field has been transformed from seconds to hours and minutes, however I would have put the display format hh:mm.ss.
If the data is entered in a string the text will move when only minutes and seconds are present.
Then the single display example 3:45 could be taken for three hours and 45 minutes, if instead it was 00:03:45 there would be no doubt.
It's just a small note. Also because using a few conditions I transformed the <album duration> field with the format hh:mm:ss.

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Bug Reports / Re: Weird behavior!!!

« on: November 20, 2022, 08:20:21 AM »

This should fix the issue:
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee35_Patched.zip

Excellently solved. Thank you!!!

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Bug Reports / Weird behavior!!!

« on: November 17, 2022, 02:18:08 PM »

They use library explorer I noticed a strange behavior.
When you go to an artist under a certain author and make any changes, the selection always moves to that author.
If you make a change on that author instead it remains fixed on the selected author.
I attach videos.
I use version 3.5.8345

Doing other tests I noticed that at the end of each change it always moves to another random artist, I didn't notice a logic.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Background color

« on: November 16, 2022, 05:12:57 PM »

You could enter another command for use in virtual fields that would change the background color for the current field.
There are many ways of use, obviously almost all conditional.
Example: the song is in the rock genre and the background takes on a gray color with black writing. Or a certain artist might have a certain color. Even the title with the background in one color and the artist in another.
The modification could also be placed in the modification of the panel, always conditional or not.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Prompt field in customize panel

« on: November 16, 2022, 08:05:52 AM »

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(neither for nor against it)

But I think I should mention a problem with how this is working in the Track Details panel:
As soon as you enter something in the prompt field, any formatting in the 'fields' line gets broken and things will become a mess.
So using (adding) this prompt field is only useful if you don't use any formatting in the actual formula.
Not all users will understand this, and they will then run into problems.

I did not realize this. I don't use prompts in the Track Details panel, but I would to use them in the main panel.

I tried to use the same system for the fields in the Track Details panel but I didn't have any problems.
Which I don't use because the data I need is already displayed in the main panel. What is playing can be seen from the player.
The problem, if anything, is using a font with size greater than 14, it gets cut off at the bottom. The field does not adapt to the font size used.