First off I want to say thanks for the great player. I am coming from Foobar and my reasons for choosing MusicBee over it is...
- More stuff 'built-in' rather than having to use plugins
- Clean UI, though I am still tweaking it to make it like my Foobar layout.
- Doesn't use a lot of resources like Foobar.
- Library Statistics
First thing I am trying to figure out is the playcount. I was originally on iTunes, and the playcount would only update after the song ended. With Foobar I had to get a plugin and the count would only update after 50% or x seconds.
I see MusicBee has a way to edit this in the preferences but I cannot get it to work. I tried erasing the skip count and then setting the playcount values to more than 1% or 1 second. It only seemed to update after 5-8 seconds of playing.
My second question is album art. iTunes did a very bad job of adding art and tagging in general. Once I moved over to Foobar I was missing tons of art or some albums had the low quality versions I replaced. Foobar did a good job when I manually went - tagging > attach pictures > front cover and then chose my file.
Will MusicBee embed the art into the file or does the art only show when in the program? I constantly move new music to my iPod and phone so I don't want to have to copy the art with it.
I am very picky when it comes to the cover art and get all my own scans at 600x600 or higher. MusicBee has an option to grab art from the internet, but where does it get it and what are the dimensions?
My final question is about tagging. A few of my albums in MusicBee have incorrect tagging. Specifically one album has 3 out of the 4 tracks with some weird Chinese symbols. When I view this album in Foobar, the track titles show normally. When I open in Windows explorer, those 3 tracks are missing the title but the file name itself is correct. Why does Foobar show them correctly but MusicBee does not? Do they tag files differently?
Thanks!