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Plugins / Re: VUMeter Plugin
Last post by voodoopunk on July 08, 2025, 07:02:07 PM   |  Started by BoringName
Indeed why?
The forum would be a big mess if people were posting comments in topics that they are not interested in and not adding useful information.
Of course, as every response is so full of useful information as you've proved.
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Questions / Re: how do i convert a spotify playlist to musicbee
Last post by phred on July 08, 2025, 06:39:57 PM   |  Started by luji
The purpose being that you can then use your Spotify desktop version off-line.
Good to know.
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Plugins / Re: VUMeter Plugin
Last post by hiccup on July 08, 2025, 06:13:56 PM   |  Started by BoringName
…so why respond to these things?
Indeed why?
The forum would be a big mess if people were posting comments in topics that they are not interested in and not adding useful information.
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Plugins / Re: VUMeter Plugin
Last post by voodoopunk on July 08, 2025, 06:07:31 PM   |  Started by BoringName
I'm afraid most "users" wouldn't even notice/report if the meter was upside down and backwards.  They eat whatever is on the plate with zero comment.  I base that sarcasm on the almost total lack of response here to really exceptional, brains-required projects like VUMeter and CEN spectrum.  People sure like playlists though.
I wasn't going to respond to this as this thread doesn't contain anything of interest for me.

But, a lot of us... or rather, I'll speak for myself aren't interested in a VU meter, spectrums or playlists either for that matter, so why respond to these things?
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Plugins / Re: VUMeter Plugin
Last post by hiccup on July 08, 2025, 05:46:58 PM   |  Started by BoringName
I'm afraid most "users" wouldn't even notice/report if the meter was upside down and backwards.
;-)

FWIW, on my system, the difference between 60 and 120 fps is some 1.5% CPU load, which I find negligible and completely worth it.
On 120fps I now have somewhere between 2% and 3% MusicBee + VUMeter total load on average.

Note that the previous 2.6.x versions before this new 2.7.x one had around 10% on average. (while performing worse)
And I don't think anyone ever complained about that 10%.

If this hadn't been discussed publicly on the forum and 120fps had silently be made the default, nobody would have complained.
They would only have noticed a significant performance improvement, and a 70% lower CPU load.

So, I'm still not a proponent of adding (yet another) option setting for this.
Just make 120 the default and fuggedaboudit?
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Questions / Re: how do i convert a spotify playlist to musicbee
Last post by hiccup on July 08, 2025, 05:37:46 PM   |  Started by luji
…the songs on  Spotify are protected and you can't download them to your local PC.
Yes you can.
The purpose being that you can then use your Spotify desktop version off-line.
But as Pickles7853 mentioned before, they will reside on your PC as encrypted files.

Nor MusicBee, nor this forum can help with that.
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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee just disappears with no messages
Last post by sveakul on July 08, 2025, 05:33:33 PM   |  Started by vincebutler
but I have Whitelisted C:\Program Files (x86)\MusicBee
And...????
Worth reminding people that the Installer version puts parts of MusicBee in areas besides Program Files!  AppData, "Music", etc.  Whitelist those too.
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Questions / Re: Not Populating?
Last post by sveakul on July 08, 2025, 05:28:19 PM   |  Started by tomx22
"Main Panel" is the official name for center panel.  Click the button to the left of the Search box, choose Main Panel->Tracks.  Right-click the Tracks bar and set your Displayed Fields (Filename, etc.).  Now drop the header menu in the Tracks panel, and choose e.g. Artwork->Medium Picture.  Etc.

There are about 3 other ways to approach this "but this way is mine."  :o

You would lose a lot of nice options by totally blocking MB from the Internet that have nothing to do with modifying the files unless you tell it to.  Internet radio, lyrics and artwork  finding/display (NO "SAVING" UNLESS YOU CHECK THAT OPTION), CD AccurateRip checking, identifying songs via fpcalc.exe, etc.

Making your whole Music file folder "read only" works too in the no changes department, but so does hunting down and un-checking all the options that might do so.  More time consuming, but a good way to learn about where all these options are and others that you may not know are there but WANT to use once you find out.

Unfortunately the complexity of MusicBee is not served by its poor documentation.  The user forum "pinned" areas, and using the hiccup forum-only via Google searcher are excellent ways to learn.  Don't forget that using the Portable version of MusicBee will easily allow you to back up its SINGLE FOLDER with ease every time you want to try a new configuration and return to the previous with a single copy-paste operation.  Worry-free experimenting, perhaps the BEST way to learn.
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Questions / Re: how do i convert a spotify playlist to musicbee
Last post by phred on July 08, 2025, 05:03:26 PM   |  Started by luji
everything is still on spotify, musicbee doesnt have any songs on it yet because im trying to figure out how to first convert all the songs into mp3 without basically individually searching for each song and putting it in a converter
As Pickles7853 stated above, the songs on  Spotify are protected and you can't download them to your local PC. And if they're not on your local PC, then MB can't convert them. Nor can MB play them.
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Questions / Re: how do i convert a spotify playlist to musicbee
Last post by luji on July 08, 2025, 04:53:05 PM   |  Started by luji
What version of MB are you using? (Help > About) INCLUDE THE LETTER (if any) AFTER THE NUMBER
How was MB installed? (Store, Installer, Portable)
What format are the files in now?
Where are the files located? (local drive, spotify, online cloud storage?
Do the files appear in your MB library?
ok im sorry i dont know how to do this quote thing but im using version 3.6.9202
i downloaded musicbee installer edition
for those last three questions i dont really know what to say, so maybe i didnt explain it right or it got lost in translation
everything is still on spotify, musicbee doesnt have any songs on it yet because im trying to figure out how to first convert all the songs into mp3 without basically individually searching for each song and putting it in a converter
sorry for all the trouble
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