GUI changes for v3.0

[Boile]

Hi!
If you have in the Library Explorer under Artist(or another view) several albums and you click on any to play this Album(you see this in the main window and in the Playing Tracks list) than if the next song is played(or you edit the song and save it), than will be in the  main window and in the Library explorer the first album  displayed!

[Steven]

Hi!
If you have in the Library Explorer under Artist(or another view) several albums and you click on any to play this Album(you see this in the main window and in the Playing Tracks list) than if the next song is played(or you edit the song and save it), than will be in the  main window and in the Library explorer the first album  displayed!

a screenshot might help me understand what you are saying

[rurutia10]

MB crashes every time I
....try to open the tag editor on videos.
...try to add "video kind" as a column display field to the panel.
...Use my toolbar shortcut to jump to the tag inspector for a video.

.>All my videos are mp4. I will message you error codes.

Any chance this will be fixed?

Add a video file to music bee > right click on the video file and click on "edit" > musicbee crashes. It happens to all video files.

Yes while it won't change the tags in video files, it will tag them in musicbee and you can sort stuff better. I liked it in 2.5.

[Boile]

First-->http://imgur.com/oplGi1Z
after click on save-->http://imgur.com/WNEWity

[rurutia10]

Also, any chance Steven could make the lyrics scrolling bar faster? If you don't have it synced, it moves really slow with the mouse scroll wheel. (also, with a floating window)

Just compared this with musicbee 2.5. The lyric window scrolls at a snail's pace.

[hiccup]

I believe it was mentioned a little while back that Musicbee's tag line would change from 'music manager and player', to 'music organizer and player'.

Giving that some thought, I am not sure that would be a good change.
It is certainly a somewhat vague area, but I think usually there is a made some differentiation between software that mainly plays, and can organize your music by tag handling, and software that can do that, and also has other features such as cd-ripping, cd-burning, file conversion, etc.
So if that's the case, 'music manager' would be the better choice here.

[Steven]

while its still fresh in my mind, i have made the following changes for .mp4 files in the next update:
- you can now edit and save tags for .MP4 files, including tag inspector support
- when a .MP4 file is located in the video or podcast node, MB will open the file for playback using the configured video player
- but when located in another node such as the music library, the file will play as an audio file within MB
- any .MP4 file located in the video node is not rescanned. The reason is so any tag changes made in V2.5 (which didnt save the tags to file) are not lost.
- also a V3 bug was fixed so you can now edit tags for other video formats, and as with V2.5 the tags will only be saved within MB and not written to file

[Steven]

First-->http://imgur.com/oplGi1Z
after click on save-->http://imgur.com/WNEWity

thanks - i can reproduce this
its fixed for the next update

[Steven]

fixes for the bugs and changes to the video handling as described above

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_0/MusicBee3_Patched.zip

unzip into the musicbee application folder and run MusicBee3.exe

[rurutia10]

wooo <3

all issues fixed for me now

[phred]

I believe it was mentioned a little while back that Musicbee's tag line would change from 'music manager and player', to 'music organizer and player'.

That was used in the original mock-up for the new site and has since been changed back to the original "music manager and player."  You can see the change on the home page of the demo site.

[StefanIvanovic]

Great work! You've fixed almost every issue I mentioned in previous post within a day (or two). Couple of them still remains (You can see that in previous post screenshot but sliders was not on that screenshot, so it can be viewed here http://imgur.com/WiaIQne):

- spectrum visualizer is still using wrong coloring from theme, but that is not much of an issue, not for me anyway
- that narrow sliders are still red, not gray (in theme I am using) so I guess it also uses wrong part of theme color scheme

As for UI improvement/fixes I still think that file path and file details should be placed up a little on the right of the picture, not below it, to use less screen space, especially good for laptop and other smaller screen size users (also on http://imgur.com/WiaIQnee). As for now no new bugs here, maybe that strange thing that spectrum visualizer/wave-bar height is not equal in v2.5 and v3 (they look the same, but with different settings, 55px in v3 and 42px spectrum visualizer and 40px wave-bar in v2.5 to make them look the same). It might not look the same in screenshot but I used Alt+Tab to make sure they are aligned and the same hight, maybe with pixel or two error margin.

Also I think that Now playing bar (that can be seen in my previous post) and Mini player looked better in v2.5, but that is subjective. Especially, progress bar looked and track details was nice to have in v2.5 in Mini player, but maybe spectrum visualizer and wave-bar are too much in Mini player, but there is no way to turn them off in Mini in v2.5 without turning them off in main player. Oh, as can be seen below, when minimized there is no label on taskbar for v3.



As for that "Winampish" layout, as someone before me also mentioned, maybe it would be nice idea to give users to pick a couple of different default layouts from settings, something like Layout gallery. That would be great for new users, so they have a base layout similar to what they are used to (Winamp, fb2k, AIMP, Clementine, etc.) and then they can customize it as much as they want, because with this new way of arranging things MusicBee could be made to look almost like any other player, at same time being waaaay more customizable than any other player out there.

[Steven]

- spectrum visualizer is still using wrong coloring from theme, but that is not much of an issue, not for me anyway
- that narrow sliders are still red, not gray (in theme I am using) so I guess it also uses wrong part of theme color scheme

what skin are you using?
for the file properties/ url, they will be placed on the right of the picture if the picture is large enough in height to fit them

[StefanIvanovic]

Skin is Dusk.mod.Inminente, and yes, bigger album picture put it on the right, thanks for that!

[hiccup]

The command "View: Show A-Z Jump Bar" is missing from the hotkeys panel.