Playlist and playlist field bugs

[Nick-]

Previous post could be the same bug but I thought it would be better to start a new post. I have portable version, playlists as m3u with relative paths and changed the playlist storage directory from the default one (giving a full path for it)

1.When I removed a song from one playlist, in the playlist field of any node it kept showing it as part of that playlist eventhough it was succesfully removed (did not appear on that playlist's node).

2.That I have noticed some days ago, in the middle while I took actions for tagging, deleting and a couple of renaming filenames from inside musicbee on properties menu. I'm not sure at what point but playlists in musicbee do not link correctly to the path of the files anymore and (of course) the playlist field is empty everywhere excempt on playlist nodes where there is a question mark with a message for file missing. The relative paths of files in m3u's are correct but musicbee translates them relatively to the musicbee application's files folder instead of the directory where I set in preferences to save them

Also one minor bug I noticed, on mouse hover the application's icon (Windows 8.1) in the preview small window it always shows the play icon (do not toggle with the pause icon)

[Nick-]

Instead of the correct path D:\Multimedia\Songs\somePath all the paths in all the playlists translated to D:\somePath
I used a new portable installation folder and as it looks there were a few playlists that were actually changed with a new relative path being D:\somePath (an extra prefix "../../" was added on all of their songs). Those were the playlists where I did add/remove some songs using context menu (the rest were the same as when I created them by dragging folders to the playlist). I corrected the path on those so again all of my playlists had correct relative path.
I tried my previous portable folder but again all showing with the wrong path. I deleted all playlists, reimported them (I had made a backup) again they had the wrong path. Also the tags of the files were as they were before I changed them, meaning that the metadata was saved somewhere eventhough I deleted the playlists and for whatever reason they reappeared with the wrong path and old tags on the newly imported playlists.

In case you want to try to debug this, on my approach to organize my files I needed 3 locations so I was sending everything I had tagged correctly to the Audiobooks if that makes any difference.

Finally the way to have the playlists with correct paths on my first protable folder was by changing the default format to mbp and using the new portable installation to import the playlists. In mbp the full path is stored so now on my 1st portable installation the playlists are linked correctly but the playlist field on any node (even of the playlist itself) is empty...

Is there a way to refresh or delete something so it can recheck and add the appropriate updated info about the playlists? - the playlist field seems to be buggy in general, also on my 2nd portable installation some files that I added on one playlist eventhough they appear in it, they still have empty playlist field. Right now I have my songs saved in folders mostly in a genre based approach and I want to reorganize them saved in the more common way by artist etc but I need to be able to check if I have already added them in the appropriate playlists so I need to use that feature of the playlist field. Any help would be appreciated.

[Steven]

if you are using v3.1, a bug for reading m3u playlists was recently fixed - see:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=21859.0

[Nick-]

As I mentioned on my 2nd post the problem of wrongly linked songs in playlists I managed to solve it using a 2nd installation and transforming to mbp. As far as I understood correctly the feature of exporting playlists it can automatically export mbp to m3u so that's good enough for me probably even better approach (a choice in preferences to allow it to become the default action for new/imported playlists would make it easier instead of having to do it manually for each playlist but that's not such a big trouble).
What I cannot solve is how to update/refresh the playlist field. Right now it's empty on everything in my 1st installation and buggy on the 2nd (does not display the playlist, at least on one occasion that I added extra songs to an existent playlist they continue to have empty playlist field). Where is the meta data of that stored, can I delete something so it can be rebuilt?

I tried the updated version and it is still buggy, in case you are interested to check it further:
Songs locations are similar to  D:\Multimedia\Songs\somePath
Before they were linked wrongly to D:\somePath
After update I try imported the m3u's and now they link wrongly to D:\Multimedia\somePath
I have changed from the default path for playlists to a path of the form D:\Multimedia\Songs\Playlists\ (My portable installation folder is D:\Multimedia\MusicBee)

[Nick-]

Sorry my mistake on my last post, I saved the backup copy of the m3u's on a diferent path (with wrong relative path to songs).
The updated version is working correctly having correct linkig to the songs.

My only problem is with the playlist field that continues to be empty

[Steven]

the paths in .m3u files are relative ie. the music file relative to the playlist file.
If you move the playlist folder then the music paths in the playlist will become invalid and you would need to edit those paths yourself or move the playlist folder back to where it was in the first place. If you are now using .mbp playlists you should not have this issue

for the playlist field, deleting MusicBeeLibrary.pidx in the root Music\MusicBee folder will cause MB to regenerate the linkages but you will need to have the correct paths in the playlists sorted out

[Nick-]

That corrected it thanks
Yes I realized the relative path difference after that post, sorry for that...

There must be some bug with the playlist field, I had again a problem with some songs not displaying the playlist on the displayed field (corrected after I deleted again the file you mentioned). My steps:
I made a search with criteria of searching entire library
From search results I selected some songs>context menu>Add to playlist>New playlist>myChoiceOfName
Then I chose some more songs from the results and added them to the same playlist
All of the songs added to the playlist are placed in Audiobooks
The songs I selected the 1st time remained with empty playlist field (the rest had corrected modified the playlist field).



Just a confirmation on the minor bug I initially mentioned of the absence of a pause icon on the preview window at mouse hover, with the patched version it is corrected on my system.
Do you have any thoughts to include in a future version the choice for imported playlists to have as a default the setting to automatically export a static copy? (I'm just asking in case you find it a useful feature so to not proceed doing it manually for ~60 playlists I already have)
Best regards

[Steven]

There must be some bug with the playlist field, I had again a problem with some songs not displaying the playlist on the displayed field (corrected after I deleted again the file you mentioned). My steps:
I made a search with criteria of searching entire library
From search results I selected some songs>context menu>Add to playlist>New playlist>myChoiceOfName
Then I chose some more songs from the results and added them to the same playlist
All of the songs added to the playlist are placed in Audiobooks

thats fixed now:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip

unzip and replace the existing musicbee files

[Nick-]

Yes I can also confirm it does work smoothly now. Thanks!