Now Playing list album artwork list flickering

[cartman005]

After having MusicBee open for a few minutes, the a/bum artwork in the Now Playing list docked on the right-side of my window starts blinking. It doesn't stop until I close and re-open MusicBee.

[Steven]

can you send me a link to your settings file (help/ support/ view settings)
also i assume this is something very new, so have you changed anything recently eg. new plugin enabled, change to the layout, etc

[cartman005]

I sent you my settings file. I can't think of any layout changes that I've made recently, however I was a little behind in updates until the latest release candidate came out. The only thing I can think of is I was messing around with the DirectX dlls to try and get MilkDrop working in Windows 10.

[Steven]

i am not able to reproduce this after 30 minutes playback using your settings. Its a very strange issue. I will need to give you a debug version so can you confirm you are happy to run a debug version and if so i will prepare one

[cartman005]

I realized that it begins after I edit and save the properties of a track. But sure, I will run a debug version.

Also, I don't know if this is a separate bug or could be related. When I restart MusicBee to stop the flickering, sometimes I get this error.

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System.InvalidOperationException: DragDrop registration did not succeed. ---> System.Threading.ThreadStateException: Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it.
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetAcceptDrops(Boolean accept)
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.SetAcceptDrops(Boolean accept)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnHandleCreated(EventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCreate(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
   at #=qbww7dp3LBqi3O$ZkzhVYoK$N50beMnaMHzA98NJF2qw=.WndProc(Message& #=qmoZezjeS$ACNiVK2xa9lvw==)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


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[Steven]

could you run this debug version/ unzip into the folder MB is installed:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/2dsdgao442cp50c/MusicBeeDebugNP.zip

and when it happens send me the end of the error log (help/ support/ view error log, entries in the last minute of occurance)
keep of copy of your existing musicbee.exe as this will produce a large amount of logging data

[Steven]

I realized that it begins after I edit and save the properties of a track. But sure, I will run a debug version.

just saw this. Tracks in the main panel using the tag editor and just one track?

[Steven]

thanks for sending the error log.
Its as i suspected, its the Advanced Tag Tools plugin where you must have some auto-update rule defined. The plugin appears to be repeatedly calling the panel refresh multiple times per second. I guess its somehow got itself in a loop.
I suggest you report it to boroda74. This is the relevant information for him:

Code

at MusicBeePlugin.Plugin.refreshPanels(Boolean immediateRefresh)
at MusicBeePlugin.AdvancedSearchAndReplacePlugin.AutoApply(String currentFile, Plugin tagToolsPluginParam)
at MusicBeePlugin.Plugin.ReceiveNotification(String sourceFileUrl, NotificationType type)

I can do something to reduce the flashing but there is still a fundamental problem that needs addressing

[cartman005]

Thank you. I didn't even know those were on for auto-update. I will let boroda know but I can just turn the auto updates off.

[Steven]

actually thinking about this, i think its something myself and boroda74 need to figure out together as it appears there is a feedback loop going on between MB and the plugin

[cartman005]

I downloaded his latest plugin and it doesn't look like it is happening any more.

[Steven]

just for the record, i put in handling for the flickering. Its still useful for when you update files using the tag editor and have an artwork oriented layout displayed.
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_0/MusicBee3_Patched.zip