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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 30, 2023, 01:36:59 PM »

if you want to keep using MB, i think you are going to need to split your library into two - even 1 million tracks if pushing the limits of what I had in mind with MB

Thank you for the advice Steven.
I hope that it will be possible to avoid that as it wont help my workflow.
After some further investigation i believe it may be somehow connected with another problem i lately have Topic: Musicbee is auto-exporting playlists without changes. Suspending the thread responsible for the high CPU usage appears to be blocking or stopping the playlists from auto-exporting when Musicbee exits. If I resume the thread, MusicBee starts to auto-export the playlists again. Once the auto-exporting process is finished, the high CPU usage problem disappears.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 26, 2023, 04:01:54 PM »

Any idea on what this could be?

From what i observe clr.dll is usually being triggered during the searches.
Except the percentage of the CPU that gets "locked" to it, Delta cycles are also enormous.
Through procexp i can suspend this and it doesn't seem to affect musicbee in any way when i do it.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 25, 2023, 03:24:04 PM »

Tried to update, uninstall and reinstall the NET.framework but it didn't help.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 25, 2023, 12:14:43 AM »

I was impatience, the problem is still here and it seems to be related with clr.dll (NET.framework) from what i can understand.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 23, 2023, 02:17:37 PM »

Updating the realtek sound driver to the latest one seems to solve the problem.

The weird thing is that firstly i didn't update the driver when the problem started. I wonder if it was an automatic update from the windows. Secondly if it was windows, why it didn't install the latest version.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 22, 2023, 08:48:08 PM »

The problem starts out of nowhere, randomly, during playback, and even if I leave -when the problem occurs- MusicBee idle for 30 minutes, it continues to use ~20% of the CPU.

10 minutes earlier you said ", if i just let musicbee open without any further action, it doesn't have the same behavior."

Ah well, let's hope somebody else has some ideas what may be happening, I'm out.

Ok, let me explain

Playback->random CPU usage->idle for 30 minutes-> still high CPU usage.

No Playback at all (just leaving musicbee idle since it started)-> No random CPU usage.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 22, 2023, 08:16:37 PM »

From what i understand the problem occurs during the playback of random tracks, if i just let musicbee open without any further action, it doesn't have the same behavior.

But earlier you said that it happened when MusicBee was idle?
So what is it?
How large is the library you are experiencing this with now?

The problem starts out of nowhere, randomly, during playback, and even if I leave -when the problem occurs- MusicBee idle for 30 minutes, it continues to use ~20% of the CPU.

~36000 tracks.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 22, 2023, 08:04:07 PM »

Is this happening with your—pretty much insane—library of more than two million tracks?

Yes, but I'm not sure how this could affect musicbee's behavior and CPU usage out of nowhere and not the moment i start it.

I tried it with a smaller library same results.

From what i understand the problem occurs during the playback of random tracks, if i just let musicbee open without any further action, it doesn't have the same behavior.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 22, 2023, 07:20:10 PM »

Do you have, active or not, the UPnP/DLNA plugin?  If so, see this post:

https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=14277.msg200949#msg200949

No, i don't use the the UPnP/DLNA plugin

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 22, 2023, 06:00:20 PM »

Keeps on happening.

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Bug Reports / Re: Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 22, 2023, 04:46:03 PM »

This seems to be resolved -till now- by either selecting DirectSound as Output or removing some plugins leftovers in folders, although they weren't installed in Musicbee.

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Bug Reports / Musicbee is auto-exporting playlists without changes

« on: April 22, 2023, 03:31:49 PM »

Second problem I'm facing, I think it's a bug, recently, MusicBee has been automatically exporting or updating auto exported playlists even when there have been no changes to them or to the music library.

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Bug Reports / Musicbee random "high" CPU usage.

« on: April 22, 2023, 03:26:26 PM »

Recently, I have noticed that MusicBee, at some point out of nowhere, is using around 20% of my CPU, even when it is sitting idle in the background. It never seems to release this CPU power, and it continues to use 20%or more  of the CPU until I restart the program

I use the latest patch of Musicbee.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: More search settings (abbreviation similarities or symbols treatment)

« on: April 21, 2023, 10:42:34 PM »

This script already exists in https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=39122.msg211390#msg211390

I've managed to create a script which does everything i needed it to.

This AutoHotkey 2 script is designed to replace certain characters in text when the middle mouse button is clicked if MusicBee is active.
When the middle mouse button is clicked, the script first selects all text in the search box by pressing the Ctrl + A, it then replaces certain characters or text strings, and finally the cleaned up text is then pasted into the search box.


You may need to change the coordinates on "Send "{Click..."

Code

#Requires AutoHotkey v2.0

#HotIf WinActive('ahk_exe MusicBee.exe')

MButton:: { ; Middle mouse button = Paste replaced text
 Send "{Click 1585 47}"
 Send "^{a}"
 Static replace := ['feat\.', 'ft\.', '&', '\R', ', ', ' - ', ' – ', ' — ', ' vs. ', ' Featuring ']
 txt := A_Clipboard
 txt := RegExReplace(txt, "\([^()]*\)", "")  ; Remove text within parentheses
 For each, item in replace
 txt := StrReplace(txt, item, ' ')
 SendText Trim(RegExReplace(txt, '\h+', ' '))
Return
}
#HotIf

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Questions / Re: Copy Tag <Created date> format

« on: April 16, 2023, 03:50:29 PM »

It may be unrelated but I recall coming across a post in the past that mentioned that MusicBee's date format follows your system settings.
So if your system settings aren't using that date format, you may want to experiment with changing it to that.

As a last resort, I personally would use the "search and replace" tool to change them back to the desired format.

100% sure that i, anyone or nothing else, didn't change that on my system.

Anyway, i found a workaround by creating a vitrual tag using the formula below to copy the values in the previous format.

Code

$Date(<Date Created>,yyyy-MM-dd)