Wiki pages

[redwing]

Here's a list of some missing link dialogs with a corresponding wiki page. Can't be sure this is a complete one.

- Library section of Preferences currently directs to landing page: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Preferences
- Inbox node: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Inbox#Inbox

- Hightlighting help button doesn't work: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Highlighting
- Backup dialog has no help button: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Backup_%26_Restore
- Search box: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Search
- Album auto tagger: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Auto-Tagging#Auto-Tagging

- Auto-playlist: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Auto-Playlists#Auto-Playlists
- Playlists: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Playlists
- Playlist mixers: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Playlists#Playlist_Mixers

- Now Playing preferences: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Now_Playing_Preferences
- Tracks Details view configuration pane: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Track_Detail_View#Customize_Panel_Settings
- Album and Tracks view configuration pane: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Album_and_Tracks_View#Customize_Panel_Settings
- Artwork view configuration pane: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Artwork_View#Customize_Panel_Settings
- Playing Track panel view configuration pane: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Playing_Track_Panel

<Currently blank wiki page>
- Auto-DJ node: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Auto_DJ
- Compact player: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Compact_Player

[Steven]

for v2.2 i can only associate a dialog window to a help page, so wont be able to do anything with the auto-dj panel for example
I will have a look at these tomorrow and update the mappings where i can

[psychoadept]

there is almost no point to having a controlled help browser any more. I might just change it to open the landing page in the user's default browser

I think that's a good call.  It works great for me.  Testing dialog help links now.

p.s. Nice work, redwing!

[psychoadept]

FYI, Wikia is making some kind of change on December 4 that may affect how pages display.  If there are any problems on our wiki, let me know and I'll look into fixing them.

[redwing]

Just a suggestion. How about incorporating the wiki homepage and online help landing page?
The thing is that mouseover menu on the homepage is not as helpful as it should be for finding out items many visitors would likely be looking for. Have to look around each menu item for a while.  Also those menus are not available when you access from a mobile device. If the wiki homepage has the current menu on online help landing page (plus some more most visited pages), that'd be very helpful.

[psychoadept]

I think my original reason for making the landing page separate had to do with the fact that it opened within MusicBee, both for space reasons and because it allowed linking users directly to the content, skipping all the wikia advertising crap.  Since that's no longer an issue, sure.  Why don't you tackle porting over the content?    The main page layout is a little different from other pages, but there are helpful comments in the code to guide you.

[redwing]

That makes sense. I didn't think about the ads.

[psychoadept]

Since I had to update them for the new theme, I went ahead and finished a project I started a while ago of putting navigation tools on most of the wiki pages.  They overlap a lot with the menus at the top, but are placed at the bottom of the page to save scrolling and focus on pages related to the current page.  Additionally, they automatically include the page in the relevant category.

There are navigation categories for:
Preferences
Layout
Library Management (a miscellaneous category for navigation and organization tools)
File Management (a subcategory of library management)
Tag Management (ditto)
[Added] Playback
[Added] Menus

See Tag Preferences for an example:
http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Tags_Preferences


Feedback welcome!

[boroda]

Looks cool. Thank you, scampbll!

[psychoadept]

Glad you like it.  

I've been fine-tuning the top menu, too, including some new tricks I've learned from Wikia.  Considering turning the Plugins and How-To's menus into dynamic lists based on popularity, but I don't yet trust that it's working as intended on Wikia's end...

Edit: Okay, I think I've figured it out.  What do you all think of the idea of a dynamic list rather than the current static list?  It would be the top 7 articles, plus I could manually add up to 3 items to each list.

[boroda]

+1. Please leave "All items" menu entry as is.

[psychoadept]

I've made the change.  Give it 24 hours for everything to get sorted out.  I shortened some of the page names for readability, but that's not reflected yet.  Nevermind, looks like Wikia has it sorted out now.

[psychoadept]

Okay, I think I have the main menus pretty much covered.   These pages aren't meant to document much directly, just provide relevant links.  Let me know if I missed any problems.  Thanks!

You can find them all linked from this page: http://musicbee.wikia.com/wiki/Program_Menus

[redwing]

I always thought how-to section on the wiki is a mess. Not easy to browse available items and guess what each item is about.

Here are my suggestions.

- "All how-to" page should list sub-categories and items of each category to give a glance of all available guides. Current grid view and alphabetical order of list view are useless.
- Some guides already assigned to sub-categories are not tagged as "guides". Should be consistent.
- Nobody knows what AT&RT means. Better to be assigned to "Tagging" category along with other tagging guides regardless of the plugin use.

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Here's my categorization of currently posted guides.

<Devices>
How to Fast Sync Android Device
How To Have Songs with Album Covers on Your Samsung Galaxy Nexus/Android
Making Your Archos 5 Internet Tablet with Android to Work with MusicBee
MusicBee Autoplay for MTP Devices
MusicBee Remote for Android
Synchronize Android by Wifi

<iTunes>
Compilations, Podcasts and Audiobooks
Converting ReplayGain Values to SoundCheck Values
Exporting Ratings into iTunes
How to export MB library to iTunes
Importing Podcasts from iTunes

<Layout>
Configuring Default Column Set
Configuring the Layout
Skinning Guide
Using Sort Order

<Misc.>
AutoDJ - Creating A Custom Radio
Playing an Internet Radio Station with "hidden" URL with MB
Using VideoLAN VLC Player for Video Podcasts Inside MusicBee

<Organizing>
An Autohotkey Script for Rating Your Songs Faster
Copy Lossless Library To Portable MP3/AAC format
Fastest way to delete a gigantic size of previous backup
How to Create a File-Naming Template
How To Organize Classical Songs
Removing Double Windows 7 Taskbar Icon
Searching for Artists Like Beyoncé and Tiësto (MUST for Regular Keyboards)
Sharing a Library over LAN

<Playlists>
Adding "Make Playlist(s)" to Folder Context Menu
Advanced Auto-Playlist
Best of Year Playlist
How To Easily Fix Broken Playlists

<Tagging>
Appending Some Text to Tags
Converting ReplayGain Values to SoundCheck Values
Copying Tags After a Certain Word
Copying Tags Before a Certain Word
Embedding Artwork into Multiple Albums
How to Automate Song Title Capitalization
How To Make MusicBee Recognize Your Collection of Lyrics
How to save Play Count to music files as tag
How to use "text file to tags" feature
Identifying Songs
Importing Foobar Playcounts
Removing Everything Before or After a Certain Word in Tags
Removing Space at the Beginning of a Field
Swapping Positions Within The Same Field
Tagging Multiple Artists with Picard
Useful Virtual Tag Formulas
Using "Clipboard to Tags" Feature

<Web Links>
All Music (AMG) Web Links for Artist/Album Info
Looking Up Guitar Tabs for Currently Playing Song
Using Amazon mp3 Downloads in MusicBee
Web Encyclopedia List

[psychoadept]

This sounds like a great idea.  You have the ability to add and remove categories, so why don't you go for it?