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There is a fix for artistinfo in git, it should probably fix your problem : http://git.gmusicbrowser.org/commit/457196b021
I should make a new release, 1.1.5 is getting a bit old.

Oui il y a beaucoup de choses à ajouter. Par contre l'equalizer est pas mal maintenant je pense, depuis que j'ai ajouté les presets.

Pour les sources de paroles, c'est pas trop dur à ajouter si ça interesse quelqu'un.

It should be in ~/.config/gmusicbrowser/, the file is named gmbrc, there are a few backups too.

Thanks for the file.
As I hoped, it already works, the only thing missing is adding mp2 to the list of extensions.

So you can either rename them to mp3, or change these 2 lines in /usr/bin/gmusicbrowser :

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INIT {%Alias_ext=(ogg=> 'oga', m4b=>'m4a');} #needs to be in a INIT block because used in a INIT block in gmusicbrowser_tags.pm
our @ScanExt= qw/mp3 ogg oga flac mpc ape wv m4a m4b/;
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INIT {%Alias_ext=(mp2=>'mp3', ogg=> 'oga', m4b=>'m4a');} #needs to be in a INIT block because used in a INIT block in gmusicbrowser_tags.pm
our @ScanExt= qw/mp3 mp2 ogg oga flac mpc ape wv m4a m4b/;
or wait for the patch, it will be in the git version soon, I just need to change the file-type string for mp3/mp2 files.

Let me know if you see anything wrong with your mp2 files, in particular with their length/bitrate/sampling-rate.

Sorry for not replying sooner.
I'm not sure how hard it would be. Can you send me a file by email so that I can check a few things. If it's easy to add I'll do it.

I've always more or less planned to add this, but it's not a priority, and seeing how long I take for what I consider 'high priority', it could be a long time until I do it :(
Also I don't have any experience in the kind of library I'll need to use (clutter ?).
If someone wants to do it, simply doing a perl standalone version that works with a few pictures would be enough, I can do the gmb integration easily.

Sorry for not replying sooner.
I've actually added these fields (still disabled by default) in current git version (http://git.gmusicbrowser.org/commit/2fa419dd85), with some changes. Though these changes shouldn't matter much for mp3, can you try with this version ?
You'll need to activate the field, restart and re-read the tags, if it still doesn't work, can you send me by email one of your mp3 file to check.

Committed : http://git.gmusicbrowser.org/commit/091c63f507 :)

committed.
With "Ignore these words when sorting" and a tooltip

http://git.gmusicbrowser.org/commit/851d146dc2

I've found a better alternate rule: only fuse folders if their siblings can be fused too, it was a bit harder to implement but it works as I want.
Now I just have to find a good name for the option ... :(

Sorry for not replying.
You can't currently.
But I've just added the virtual field album_has_picture in the git repo, with it you can do a search for :
album_has_picture=0

Sorry for not replying, I wasn't sure if I'd do it now or not.

Currently it automatically opens the folders until it reaches a fork, but of course it doesn't work in your case where the fork appear very early.
As a workaround, you could use a symlink to make /run/media/user/ExternalStorage/Music appear as  /home/user/Music-external. Which also has the advantage of making it easy to change the this if your media was mounted elsewhere for some reason.

Though it's still something that could be improved, also the current folder view wastes a bit of space on the left, as typically the songs are deep into the tree.

So, I've implemented a solution by fusing a folder with its sub folder if it has no songs and only one sub-folder with songs (that might be in sub-sub-folders).
Though I don't like it much as, if you have a tree where albums are sub-folders of artists, it makes artists with only one albums stand out :
+artist1
  artist2/album1
+artist3

So I added a variation that only does this with the root folders, in your case it would do :

/
+ run/media/user/ExternalStorage/Music
+ home/user/Music

In my case it does :
/home/user/Music
+ artist1
+ artist2
...

But I'm not sure this is the correct rule for what I want, in case you had music on two /mnt drives it wouldn't work right as it would do :
/
+ mnt
   + drive1
      + Music
   + drive2
       + Music
+ home/user/Music

Also, I'm not sure about the option name, currently I think I'll call it "Simplify folders" with three possible values : never, "only with root folders", and always. A more descriptive name would be "Fuse folders with no songs and only one folder" but it's bit too long and not even very clear.

Any comments / suggestions ?

Sorry that happened.
I really do not know why this happens. It's probably too late, but if not do you have the modified time of these file, or at least of gmbrc.error ? (is it an old one or is it new from around the time of the crash)

If you're interested, here's basically how gmb saves : the data is saved in a new file gmbrc.new.PROCESS_ID, if any error happened while writing it is renamed to gmbrc.error, else the old gmbrc is renamed to .bak, and the new file is renamed to gmbrc.

In case you didn't know the gmbrc.bak.20150909.xz file is compressed, so even though it is only 2.1MB it is probably fine, and you can rename it to gmbrc without the need to decompress it, it will be decompressed as needed.

In the 'Set picture' dialog, it shows the included picture, but in the Left Pane it's missing.

it's because it doesn't find cover.jpg, so it just select another file, which is probably one of the mp3 file, but nothing is done until you validate.

Then I also tried to remove the whole album from the library and restart gmusicbrowser to clean it from the db - and then add and restart again. but this doesn't make a difference. It's still not displaying the pictures.

The data for removed songs is kept around for some time, that's why it doesn't change anything.

You can of course select them manually one by one, with set picture.
Or tell gmb to re-pick automatically the pictures, by selecting more than one album, and choose "auto-select pictures" in the right-click menu. Sadly this is feature is rather hard to find, I plan to add it to the scan or check button of the library tab, or add it as a button of its own, I'm not sure.

I also plan to add options to write it in the tag from the dialogs that set the picture.

The closest you can get currently is use a custom Queue page instead of the default one, it doesn't support the %n in its title (replaced by number of songs) :

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HBQueueButtons = QueueActions -EmptyList -ShuffleList
VBQueueWithButtons= (tabtitle=_"Queue",tabicon=gmb-song) _QueueList(songtree=1,cols="queuenumber titleaa",colwidth="queuenumber 20 titleaa 248",showbb=1,hscrollbar=0) HBQueueButtons

remove the HBQueueButtons from VBListCover
and replace QueueList in NBList by VBQueueWithButtons