Custom Views & other questions.

[theta_wave]

EDIT: A new day, a new question. How do I get it to stop creating a new tab every time I play a playlist... It is starting to drive me insane.

Close the superfluous tabs, right click any tab and check the navigation lock settings.  It looks like one of them has "full lock" enabled.

[krissasaur]

EDIT: A new day, a new question. How do I get it to stop creating a new tab every time I play a playlist... It is starting to drive me insane.

Close the superfluous tabs, right click any tab and check the navigation lock settings.  It looks like one of them has "full lock" enabled.

Thanks. I changed them to 'do not lock' and that seems to be working so far!

[krissasaur]

I was wondering if anyone knows how I could make a new love  column.

Or if there is a way to rename existing ... tag things. I am fine with just making new ones, though.

Anyway, I am making new ones so the "Name..." of them isn't cut off.

I know how to do this, but I have run into trouble with how to make loved the last.fm loved icon.



The default tag just shows it as an empty heart, but when i tried to make one, it says 'Not loved.'

Here is what I have for it:



Anyway.. I hope this question made sense.

[psychoadept]

Can you give us a full window screenshot?  I'm not quite grasping what you want to do, or how you're getting the current result.

[krissasaur]

Sorry about that. I will try to explain better with screen caps.

By default, if I use the "Love" tag that is shipped with Musicbee by default it looks like this. But it cuts off the "Love" header which annoys me.



So I made a new virtual tag:





But when I added it to "Set Display Feilds.." it looks liek this. It no longer has the hearts and is now text that says "Loved" and "Not Loved"



I am wondering what code I would need to add in the virtual tag windows here:



To get it to show up like the default <Love> tag.... since for some reason the <Love> tag isn't doing that.

[psychoadept]

Yeah, unique tags like Loved don't function well as virtual tags.  However, there's a much simpler solution.

If you open the "customize panel settings" window for whatever view you're in, you should see a button at the bottom left that says "configure fields".  Open that window, and you can rename any field.  It will use the new name everywhere except in the tag editor.

[krissasaur]

Are you serious? So much easier! Thanks!

[krissasaur]

Is there a way to set multiple hotkeys for one thing?

On winamp I had /*- on my numberpad set to previous, next, play/pause, and I also had 0+ set to previous and next. I have a MMO mouse so the 10(0 on numpad) 11(+ on numpad) and 12(- on numpad) buttons.

I don't see a way to add multiple hotkeys?

Basically I want:

/ and 0 = previous
* and + = next
- = play/pause

[psychoadept]

You could only do this if one of them was a global hotkey (works when you're in other programs).

[krissasaur]

I want both to be global.

[krissasaur]

Sorry, I am back.

Is there a way to add a column for banned tracks to "Column Browser?" I can't find it.

I would like it to act kind of like the last.fm heart, but have the 🚫 symbol.

[psychoadept]

The last.fm loved column already does that (if you press shift you can ban a track and it will show the symbol).  I don't know if you can put it in the column browser, though

[krissasaur]

Oh! Oops hahah. I removed that column because love wasn't working well for me since my tags don't always match last.fm, so I didn't notice! I guess I will have to add it back! (And it does show on column browser as 🚫, just checked!)

Thanks! I don't know how you are always so fast, but I appreciate it!!

[clandestino]

I'm still struggling with this part of Musicbee, after about 5 or 6 years!

I'm not happy with my layout, but:
a) I'm not 100% sure how I want it to look, and
b) I'm 100% certain that other people out there have some fantastic layouts.

Is there an easy way for me to simply import a layout?  I've imported skins, but they just change the colour!