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MusicBee Wishlist / Re: Option to treat video files like MKV as audio files.

« on: September 07, 2019, 12:25:57 AM »

I see your point, its not very useful to many people. Would something like this even be possible as a plugin? Can a plugin step in before MusicBee attempts to open the file with a video player and change the action? If it is I might attempt it myself.

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MusicBee Wishlist / Option to treat video files like MKV as audio files.

« on: September 06, 2019, 08:13:21 PM »

Earlier I posted a question about playing MKV files as audio only(https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=29545.0), while the solutions that were given were alright and there already seems to be built in support for playing the contained audio it would be more convenient to have an option to force MusicBee to play just the audio portion rather than opening it in a video player. Renaming the file/extracting the audio manually/converting the entire file is much more cumbersome and can take up unnecessary space if I only want to listen to the audio.

Thank you for your time and for all your work on the best music player.

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Bug Reports / Re: Play/Pause Button inputs twice when Windows 10 Media Control Overlay is enabled.

« on: September 06, 2019, 06:38:04 PM »

Not sure if this issue is related or not however when I disable the hotkeys I have to play a song manually inside of MusicBee before the media keys on the keyboard work. The functionality of the plugin isn't initialized until a song plays for the first time or something along those lines.

I have also tired your second solution however that prevents the buttons in the overlay from working.

Thank you for taking your time to look at this problem.

Also while trying to figure this out myself I ran across a similar plugin for foobar2k its approach to a similar problem is to passthrough the keyboard messages, not sure if this will be helpful to you at all but here is a link to the plugin source code https://github.com/Hual/foo_mediacontrol/blob/master/foobar2000/foo_mediacontrol/message_listener.cpp.

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Bug Reports / Re: Play/Pause Button inputs twice when Windows 10 Media Control Overlay is enabled.

« on: September 06, 2019, 02:31:54 PM »

Code

9/6/2019 8:25:31 AM - media button pressed: Play,MB playstate=Paused,control state=Paused
9/6/2019 8:25:31 AM - media key detected=MediaPlayPause

When I pressed the media key on the keyboard the selected song started and stopped immediately.

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Plugins / Re: Windows 10 Media Control Overlay

« on: September 06, 2019, 05:22:36 AM »

Unfortunately this plugin has a major bug, when pressing media keys on the keyboard the presses register twice. Once by the Media Control Overlay/Plugin and once by MusicBee. This causes track skipping and breaks the pause and play functionality as the commands are doubled.

I have tried to fix this by editing the code of the plugin but its difficult without extending the plugin API or something along those lines with information from MusicBee about when it intercepts the keyboard press of the media keys in or order to prevent the plugin from repeating the action that was already handled by MusicBee if that makes sense. It would be great if the API told the plugin if a song change/pause/play was triggered by a media key or something else.

Another option would be to allow the plugin itself to handle the media keys and removing them from MusicBee's hotkeys but that is honestly beyond my coding abilities.

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Questions / Is playing an MKV file as audio only within MusicBee possible?

« on: September 06, 2019, 05:09:54 AM »

Is playing an MKV file as audio only within MusicBee possible?

I don't want to play the video track just the audio track if this is possible.