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Questions / Context menu sometimes lists plugins, but other times doesn't..

« on: November 22, 2017, 11:52:59 AM »

Hi I hope someone can help.  If, when MB starts, I immediately right click an album or track, two of the plugins I've installed are listed at the bottom of the context menu that's displayed:

 

However, if I then select another album or track and right click again, these plugins aren't displayed:


 
I've no idea why this should happen.  I've noticed that if I select something other than 'music' from the navigator panel, then select 'music' again, the plugins are displayed once again on the context menu, but this isn't ideal.  Is there anything I can do to resolve this?

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Questions / Help the ‘visualiser graphic’ element on my install is misbehaving..

« on: November 17, 2017, 10:15:01 AM »

I hope someone can shine some light on this.  

I recently tweaked the layout of my install of MB which included moving the visualiser graphic element around and switching it on and off.  I really want this element to feature in the right-side bar and I haven’t got any issues in terms of configuring MB’s layout.  However, for some reason now, when the visualiser graphic element features the playback of music is speeded up, and when it is removed playback is fine, it occurs at the correct speed.

Can anybody provide any guidance on what I could do?  

I’ve tried changing skins – trying both Musicbee3 and Eleven - but that didn’t resolve the issue.  And previously I had mistakenly concluded that the issue was a wasapi bug, but subsequently managed to get everything working again by doing a complete reinstall of MB –  that’s an extreme measure though and if at all possible I would prefer not to repeat that.

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Bug Reports / Distorted sound when playback via wasapi is selected [No bug/issue resolved]

« on: October 21, 2017, 12:07:38 PM »

If I select wasapi as the output for the player, the sound I get is badly distorted, with what seems to be a mix of interference and tracks being played too fast.  Adjusting the buffer size and having 'event mode' switched on or off doesn't make any difference - this issue contunes to occur.  

This issue appears to relate only to how musicbee is handling wasapi. Playback using musicbee's DirectSound setting is fine, and whilst the PC is running the latest version of Windows 10 there's no noticable distortion at all when using wasapi with audio players, including Winyl, which like musicbee also uses basswasapi.dll.  I'm like crazy about Musicbee so I'm really hoping this issue can be resolved.  

I'm incidentally using musicbee version 3.1.6493 and trying to get this to play, via wasapi and S/PDif, to a SMSL Q5 Pro.  (This doesn't use any third party driver - Windows has instead configued it with a generic MS driver and sees it as a high audio definition device)

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Questions / Remove leading zeros when tracks are displayed beneath album covers

« on: June 12, 2017, 12:11:25 PM »

I have a relatively large collection of music, some of which has a leading zero before track numbers, and some don’t.  I tend to view this collection by album covers and ideally, I don’t want any of the tracks that are displayed beneath these to display a leading zero as part of a track number.  For example, I would like a track numbered ‘05’ to be listed simply as ‘5’.

I’ve established that if I assign the formula $Pad(<Track#>,1) to a virtual field it will display what I’m looking for.  However, I can’t figure out how this virtual field can be used instead of the normal, standard track number (for tracks displayed beneath their respective album covers).   I was hoping this could be possible via the ‘expanded Panel settings’ for the ‘main panel’ but I’ve had no joy with this.

Any help with resolving this would be much appreciated