gmusicbrowser Forum

Oh really nice. KDEconnect does part of this already, but this is so much better :D

I've noticed that kid3 doesn't like the way multiple genres are managed by GMB. So much so that it will make it compliant by choosing one randomly and removing all others on save.
I'm guessing that it's because of some id3 specification which bars multiple genres.
I've also noticed that instead of multiple entries "Rock" "Progressive", a single genre entry subdivided by commas "Rock, Progressive" will work with both GMB and kid3. But GMB doesn't have this implemented and so adding a genre in files properties or the right click menu, creates a new genre rather than adding to the existing one with a comma.

It's not a big problem of course, just a hint to make GMB more perfect in case it's a trivial fix and you didn't know this.

So far I've worked around kid3 erasing my genres by adding and then removing a "temp" genre to an entire album/artist in GMB right after I save tags with kid3. This rewrites the genres to the files, as long as it's done before a refresh of the tags in GMB.

At any rate, thanks so much for this gem of a tool :D

Quote from: manoel on August 12, 2025, 13:17:29Besides, I think all the lyrics gathered manually (by me and my daughter) during the years since the lyrics plugin stopped working have disappeared! I thought gMusicBrowser saved them at an external location to its folders, in a local directory accesible by other programs or to be edited externally... but now it seems that it was saved under its own subdirectories and now all the lyrics are gone when the Ubuntu upgrade removed the sofware :-((((

I have to apologize and correct myself. It's strange that "find" command didn't find them, but they are under my home directory in /.lyrics folder, stored in one folder per artist, and in .lyric format which seems to be just another extenstion for TXT files. I found out about this possible location reading about rhythmbox storing lyrics there, so I looked there just in case... and bingo! It's a good thing that various programs use the same format and location.

So I guess that if I manage to reinstall under Ubuntu 22.04 the gMusicBrowser will find them again.

Quote from: karu on August 09, 2025, 14:27:10I found a solution for the freeze:
replace line 4370 at \bin\gmusicbrowser
   redo if grep $_, @toobig;
by
   #redo if grep $_, @toobig;
   redo if $_ && grep $_, @toobig;

Hi.
I'm on Mint 22.1 Cinnamon.
It works for me! No more freezes!
Thank you

Besides, I think all the lyrics gathered manually (by me and my daughter) during the years since the lyrics plugin stopped working have disappeared! I thought gMusicBrowser saved them at an external location to its folders, in a local directory accesible by other programs or to be edited externally... but now it seems that it was saved under its own subdirectories and now all the lyrics are gone when the Ubuntu upgrade removed the sofware :-((((

I think it's always a good software design principle to separate programs from data.

Hi, I've just upgraded from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS and seen that gMusicBrowser has been removed by the upgrade process. What is the reason for that? Should I reinstall it?

Thanks.

I found a solution for the freeze:
replace line 4370 at \bin\gmusicbrowser
   redo if grep $_, @toobig;
by
   #redo if grep $_, @toobig;
   redo if $_ && grep $_, @toobig;

Hi. Since I first began using this great software I missed the possibility of grouping by various values, in the same way that you can put various Genres to a song. For example, I'd like to group a song under "Instrumental" and "Galician Bands" and whatever else I'd like to use to classify, not related to musical Genres, which obviously has its own field, of course.

But I just can't. I tried to write various grouping-values in that field with a semicolon to separate, and also with a comma, but it doesn't work. Nor can a select multiple in the pop-up menu of already used grouping criteria. Is there a trick to do it? If so, which would be the syntax? Or is it just a lacking function of gMusicBrowser?

If somebody has managed to do multiple Grouping, please let me know.

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

Hello!

A button that, with a left click, would activate/deactivate Easy Effects without displaying its window, and with a right click, would show/hide its window, would seem very welcome.

Bonjour,
J'ai installé gmusicbrowser_1.1.99.1_all.deb.

et quand je lance gmusicbroxser en ligne de commande, j'obtiens :
(gmusicbrowser:186667): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 14:29:38.777: gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkScrollbaret gmusicbrowser ne démarre pas. Comment résoudre ce problème ?