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Questions / MusicBee produces massive SSD/HDD-activity while running (Registry acceess?)

« on: April 03, 2020, 02:39:37 PM »

Since some time  (months) I am noticing a permanent SSD-activity while MusicBee is running (also in the background and idle). I suspected various apps but finally pointed it down to MusicBee.

I am using MusciBee Portable in v. 3.3.7367 P / Windows 10 64Bit / 500GB SSD / 8GB RAM / AV: Bitdefender 2020
Only relevant setting in MusicBee: Library -> monitored folders -> scan on startup only

The question is if anybody
- also noticed similar behaviour
- has an explanation for this behaviour
- can give an workaround to stop this behaviour
- give hints to dig deeper in that matter

The case seems a little bit strange; here my findings until now:
I used the program "Process Monitor" to find any difference in "File System Activity":
a) I captured all events during 60s with MusicBee started, in background and idle (1min after program start).
b) Then I captured all events during 60s while MusicBee is not running (quited directly after the previous run).
Results between a) Musicbee is running vs. b) Musicbee is not running:
- Total Bytes Written (all processes): 111KB vs. 32KB
- Total Bytes Read (all processes): 697KB vs. 300KB
- Total Events (all processes): 724 vs. 645

The path of the files with most written byte are the following:
for a) and b) the top file is: C:\Windows\System32\config\SOFTWARE.LOG1
for b) the only two further files with written bytes are:
- 2KB | C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\System.evtx
- 2KB | C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-WHEA%4Errors.evtx

for a) there are 4 other files with 10 times of written bytes:
21KB | C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs\Microsoft-Windows-PushNotification-Platform%4Operational.evtx
20KB | C:\Windows\System32\config\SYSTEM.LOG1
16KB | C:\Program Files\Bitdefender\Bitdefender Security\HttpProxy.dat-wal
16KB | C:\Users\[MYUSERNAME]\ntuser.dat.LOG2

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Total entries of "File Summary":        a) vs b) = 66 vs 56
Total entries of "Registry Summary": a) vs b) = 1122 vs 526
--> For Registry most of the 673 "additional" elements with a) (MusicBee running) are:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\ACPI\...
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\BTH\... ... and so an with [ACPI, BTH, BTHENUM, HID, PCI, ROOT, STORAGE, SW, SWD, USB, USBSTOR]

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Do you have any answer to my initial question?
The background why I even find this behaviour disturbing, because my SSD (Crucial MX300 M.2) unfortunatley makes some very low noises during file accesses (like some coile wine / squeezing) - and since using MusicBee this noise is permanent present which drives me a little bit crazy. If I quit MusicBee the SSD is again very silent as expected.

Maybe it is a hint to some strange behaviour/bug of MusicBee itself (e.g.: it is the "portable" version, why it should trigger a massive registry-read/write access?) - but maybe it is only a artifact of my software systems (Bitdefender?)

Any help is welcome!
Cheers,
Robert

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MusicBee Wishlist / Add option "queue selected tracks/albums shuffled" in selection context menus

« on: October 28, 2019, 12:27:29 AM »

I would find the option "queue selected tracks/albums shuffled" very helpful to add to all context menus after selecting tracks/albums/entries.

Behaviour in detail:
1. Select all tracks/albums in music bee you which (most important for me within the album view)
2. Right Click on selection
3. new entry "queue selected tracks/albums shuffled"
4. all selected tracks/albums are queued at the end of the current playlist: as a block but with a random sorting within the whole selction but let the current playlist untouched apart from that.
5. Same behaviour for "AutoDJ" and "Normal" mode (and why not also in "Shuffle" mode? Wouldn't heart)
6. should also work for a selection within the playlist itself (although for playlist I would prefer: select tracks within playlist --> right click -->choose "shuffle selected tracks" --> all selected tracks are just shuffled within current playlist, while keeping the position of the selected block of tracks.)

Cross link to former discussion of this: https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=27609.msg166573#msg166573

What do you think?

Cheers, Robert

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Questions / How to add a new album with random sorting to the current playlist?

« on: January 06, 2019, 10:54:14 PM »

Hey,
sometimes I am quite a little bit overwhelmed of the many functions of MusicBee and often get confused while using it - still after one year.

So, here is my question of the day and I hope you can tell me an easy way (or I will make a FeatureRequest of it, if it is simple not possible):

How can I add all the titles of an album from the library but with a RANDOM order and inserting it after the currently playing song into the playlist (without delete or alter existing playlist)?
Two similar question stands for the same: 1) how to add several selected albums of the library to the current position of the playlist in random order and 2) how to add all title of an album in random order to an empty playlist. I can't manage :-/

With non of my following tests I had success for this:
- activating random mode + send to playlist
- rightclick album and "cue randomly" (german: "zufällig abspielen")
- add to playlist (with small "play" arrow-button) selecting all added songs in playlist and looked for anything like "shuffle selected songs" (which doesn't exist). I only can shuffle the WHOLE playlist, but not a selection.

For all the result is, that the songs of the album appear in ther "correct" order in the playlist, and not shuffle is done.

How can I make this?
Thanks and cheers,
Robert