What are /r/musicbee's favorite Products & Services?

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I've heard good things about the Fiio M3 (as you use nano). Seems to work just fine with MB. I don't have one myself but you can ask in the Amazon review section.

Nothing that I know of. You'd need some sort of script that deletes the first embedded cover in an audio file and keeps the second one. Maybe Mp3tag has something like that?

https://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

I've had some success with Music Brainz.

edit: Though I should say that it doesn't do so well with more obscure/underground stuff. It just pulls metadata from their database of mainstream stuff based on what little details are in the files.

I would definitely install some of the lyric plug-ins from the website, this is probably the main one. I think I have all of them installed, since there isn't really a downside to doing so. And you can organize the search order in Preferences->Tags (2).

Also, tags can matter. I think it searches by (album) artist and Title, maybe by album too. But if there are any alternate names or if the name is originally in a different language, you might need to change it to that.

If you listen to obscure/not popular music though, there just might not be any lyrics for it on any of the searched services.

I had this exact problem, and actually found your post through searching for a solution.

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This is what I discovered: Those are DS_STORE files created by a Mac. They're basically Finder instructions. It does no harm to delete them, but are they ever a pain in MusicBee!

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Here's what I did: I downloaded Everything, a fantastic search tool for Windows. I then searched for ._ files, using an audio filter on Everything. I then sorted by size, and deleted every file that was 4kb (4kb seemed to be the magic size). I then refreshed my MusicBee library, and all the ._ files were gone!

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There are probably better ways to do this with Command Prompt and whatnot, but this worked really well for me and was safe. There is no way to filter them out in MusicBee as of the current 3.2.6902 version.

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Good luck, and I hope this helps!

I've never seen wired 2-way sync work, but MusicBee Wifi Sync works wonderfully if you use GoneMAD Music Player or PowerAmp for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getmusicbee.musicbeewifisync.

It syncs music (one way from MusicBee to Android), ratings and playcounts (GoneMAD and PowerAmp only), and playlists (GoneMAD only).

I don't believe it's developed anymore, but I don't have any issues running it on Android 12. Just make sure to run a wired sync once the first before your first wifi sync.

I use GoneMAD Music Player: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gonemad.gmmp

You can use different presets for the Now Playing screen, or customize it to look almost however you want: https://gonemadmusicplayer.proboards.com/thread/1066/gmmp-3-custom-metadata-info

If you can't get that to work, I use this tool on Windows to convert my FLAC into ALAC files and it works great!

https://www.mediahuman.com/audio-converter/

On Mac, I use XLD.

Sadly there's not. There's a plugin you can use to listen to a specific portion only, but it's very limited: https://www.getmusicbee.com/addons/plugins/20/track-previewer/

I use Audacity for A/B'ing.

I use a really old Windows utility called "MP3 to iPod Audiobook Converter" that does exactly what you need. Looks like it is available here and is on the same version as it was when I downloaded it in 2010.

If you want it done easy you should pay for musconv. https://musconv.com/google-play-music-to-musicbee/

If you want to do some work instead I think I can walk you through it. Start by exporting your playlists one by one to text manually as per https://soundiiz.com/tutorial/export-google-music-to-text

Use a different program for ripping that'll get the metadata you want. I was a fan of fre:ac before switching over to MusicBee, but didn't have your problem because none of my CDs contain that kind of metadata (that I know of). Look around, if that one won't do the job others might.

I'm a MusicBee user as well, and I don't think it has to the compatibility to sync libraries and play count across multiple devices. You might be able to simulate the capability, as far as play count is concerned, with its UPnP/DLNA server plug-in - I'll post a link to it below. However, that plug-in was a bit buggy the last time I used it, and it's no longer actively supported by its developer.

https://www.getmusicbee.com/addons/plugins/11/upnp-dlna-device-support/

Are they streaming in AAC? My Musicbee lost the AAC codec recently resulting in those stations not working, I had to copy the codec bass_aac.dll back in.

See AAC secton here: https://www.getmusicbee.com/help/faq/

It should be the default font. however there is an option called segoe greyed out. however im using the spotify musicbee skin https://www.getmusicbee.com/addons/skins/91/spotify-039-s-accent-dark/ to make it look that way.

It's supposed to just do it automatically based on the available width; I didn't configure it to be that way specifically. You can try turning off/shrinking your side panels and see if it gets any better, or update to the newest version of MusicBee 3.1 if you're not on it already. Steven had made a change around that time to make it a little more generous with minimum available width before switching to multiple columns. :)

MusicBee can only work off of what Windows feeds it for drives, so you want to try and combine both drives in some manner in Windows so that MusicBee can work on them as one.

Here's some simple directions for a few options. Option 1 (symlink the second drive into a folder on the first) is your best bet. Off the top of my head, I don't think option 2 will work on external drives, especially ones that need to remain separate for your Walkman to continue working. Just ignore the RAID option.

Once that's done, you can play with your MusicBee settings and just sync to different folders based on what you want on your internal and external drives.

One option is to use Unified Remote which lets you remotely control your PC from a mobile device. This is what the MusicBee remote looks like (Ignore the wifi warning, I'm not at home right now so my PC/phone aren't on the same network).

There's also a file manager remote that let's you browse the files on your PC, but they would open up in your default music player, which isn't necessarily MusicBee. And it may be a bit advanced if you don't know where your files are stored.

I'm using OneSync to sync my Music library to my phone. I'm backing up my music library to OneDrive anyway, and OneSync downloads my music from my OneDrive to my phone. Works like a charm if you have a fast Internet connection.

You can also use something like FreeFileSync to sync your music locally from your PC to your Android phone.

A similar question was asked not too long ago so im just going to copy and paste my answer below because I use musicbee on my laptop and nyx music player on my phone.

Currently do this with an app called Syncthing, it takes a little bit to set up the first time as you have to link the shared folders. Sadly its not an automatic thing as you will have to sync them through the apps everytime you want both libraries to update, but its pretty useful for
both adding and deleting songs.

Behold: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getmusicbee.musicbeewifisync&hl=en

That app (from the actual developer of MusicBee) supports two-way playlist syncing with Poweramp and GoneMad.

Have a play with Synchronize Ultimate. I use this (in combination with Tasker) to sync a ~50GB library once a week.

If you only want to stream from your desktop, checkout Astiga:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ga.asti.android&hl=de

It's like your personal Spotify.

Other than that, as others have already mentioned, you can use either MB's own WiFi Sync or any other sync tool like FFS or Resilio.
They all copy the files directly on your device, though.

This is possible directly from MusicBee using the official MusicBee Wifi Sync app.

Only issue is that the first syncronization needs to happen via cable, then it is like using regular wired sync.

In case of network issues, a hotspot may also be useful.

I am using Sony's native music app, and it's by far the best and the most beautiful app I've ever used for music. On top of that, it has numerous options. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonyericsson.music

But if you can't install it for some reason (don't know if you have to own a Sony smartphone or not), Google Play music app is decent.

For reference the App will show album art, visual volume slider, access to the full library as well as ability to reorder and delete from the active playlist. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kelsos.mbrc&hl=en

Here's mine: http://imgur.com/vV6Fmkd Nothing too fancy. It's clean and minimal. I wanted to fit in the album art and lyrics separately, but couldn't find a good layout to do so, so I have them on separate tabs.

Skin: Metro Skin v3.5 - Flat

I have "Skin Windows Borders" disabled because I didn't like the skin's borders, and I use MusicBee Remote Android app to control the music from my phone. I love the app.

I'd love to hear your suggestions on how I can improve it, or any cool tips and tricks.

You could use MusicBee Remote to access your library from your phone, but there are no announced plans to port the player to any mobile operating systems.