Musicbee + MusicIP Auto DJ

[jan-seng]

Hi Steven or someone who might give a clue:

I'm a long time user of Auto DJ with the help of MusicIP (see also this thread http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=3602.0)

Now over time my OS has changed from Windows XP, where it worked fine (Musicbee was able to find the MusicIP server all the time, which then presented matching tracks)
to Windows 7 to Windows 10. In Windows 7 a lot of times Musicbee was not able to find MusicIP and in Windows 10 this has even gotten worse.

When selecting "using Musicip" in Auto DJ I get the followoing message: "Unable to access Musicip Mixer - you need to allow MusicIP server access thru your firewall. Try again?"
Trying again and again until finally one time the 2 do get connected, but this does not hold for a long time, as most of the times after a few tracks "No tracks matching . . ." appears.

Disabling the firewall does not change anything in the behaviour.

Could anyone give me a clue as to what to change in the setup to also make this work in Windows 10 reliably?

Thanks and best regards, Gerard

PS. I know Musicip is not supported anymore today but my Musicbee version 2.0.4663 works to my satisfaction still. And maybe there is someone who has this same setup running with a simple patch that I am not aware of . . .
I've already tried other things like changing Musicbee's/MusicIp's OS compatibility settings, no success.

[jan-seng]

Ok then. I started searching for a simple(st) way to run XP on my Windows 10 system.
I found this by VMLite XP Mode and Windows XP Mode virtual machine from Microsoft.
VMLite virtual machine: http://www.vmlite.com/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=folder&Itemid=153
Windows XP mode: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=8002

There are several installation tutorials to be found out on the internet, VMLite also offers a guide:
http://vmlite.com/index.php?option=com_rokdownloads&view=file&task=download&id=12%3Axpmhowto&Itemid=153

The VMLite XP Mode does not work flawlessly, I sometimes have to run it a few times before it starts (ignore the error/warning messages),
the networking part will not work fully (I just got NAT working).
But I installed Musicbee and MusicIP on the XP VM, copied over my MusicIP librabry and linked to my shared music folders on the Windows 10 host
(one must make a shared folder with exactly the same folder name as the one on the original system,
otherwise MusicIP won't find the music files and one would have to analyze all music over again, which is not going fast on the virtual machine I can say).

Now I am running Musicbee AutoDJ "using MusicIP mixer" again for hours and hours . . . :-)