Saved Radio Track Information

[sleepless]

I would LOVE to have an option to save the info of radio tracks that I really like. Likely just Artist and Track. That way I could look them up later on.

[wiz_d_kidd]

I agree. I tried sending the track to the Inbox. It does store the artist and track name there, but it removes the station from your list of radio stations, and if you delete it from the inbox, then your station gets deleted, too.

What I do is send it to the Clipboard, then open a doc on my computer and paste it. It takes a few steps, but it works.

BTW, to send the track info to the Clipboard, right-click on any empty space on the playback bar, then select Send To... Clipboard.

[wiz_d_kidd]

Another thing to do, which doesn't require doing anything outside MusicBee is this:

Under Edit Preferences... Tools...

enter the external tool below. Be sure to substitute your own path & filename (instead of "D:\Music\MusicLinks\Radio Logger.txt")

Name: Radio Logger
Application Path: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
Parameters: "/c echo <Artist>, <Title> >> "D:\Music\MusicLinks\Radio Logger.txt""

Now when you right-click the playback bar, you can invoke Send To... Radio Logger to record the artist and title of the track. Add whatever other tags you want. Unfortunately, <Album> always equates to the name of the radio station, not the actual album! That's MusicBee's internal decision -- not mine.

The first time you invoke this, it will create a file called Radio Logger.txt with the artist and track info. Thereafter, it will append new tracks to the bottom of the file.

[sveakul]

Guys, search the forum first, this just got asked/answered 2 weeks ago:

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=42516.msg232500#msg232500

https://getmusicbee.com/addons/plugins/197/play-history-to-text-file/

[wiz_d_kidd]

Those addons appear to save the entire play history. I just want to save selected ones, i.e. tracks/artists that I heard on the radio, I liked, and want to look up later.

[wiz_d_kidd]

Unfortunately, <Album> always equates to the name of the radio station, not the actual album! That's MusicBee's internal decision -- not mine.

After doing some more research, I've found that most radio stations only transmit <Artist> and <Title> metadata, so it's not MusicBee's fault that the <Album> information isn't available. It's the radio station.

[sveakul]

Unfortunately, <Album> always equates to the name of the radio station, not the actual album! That's MusicBee's internal decision -- not mine.

After doing some more research, I've found that most radio stations only transmit <Artist> and <Title> metadata, so it's not MusicBee's fault that the <Album> information isn't available. It's the radio station.

Yep.  And that's why its important that lyrics scrapers/searchers never REQUIRE that anything be sent in an album field to produce a match or you'd basically never get lyrics from radio streams.  Most people using the ESLyric plugin on Foobar are unaware that because of this, they are getting ZERO hits on radio streams from LRCLib and Metal Archives, kinda major sources I would say.  The 3rd-party coder who wrote them fixed them quickly after I reported them, but the fixed versions never got included by the plugin developer, despite that I posted the info to GitHub and to the Foobar forum.  Not to worry, slonopot's LRCLIBee and new Metal Archives cover radio streams just fine here at MusicBee!