I've been using MusicBee mostly to play a playlist when I'm supposed to wake up, using the Windows 10 Task Scheduler to activate it. And it has been working well, until recently.
The only difference I can find is that I have finally gotten around to ripping my CDs (through another program, fre:ac, that I've used for a while) and playing them in MusicBee at night. I know that if I pass out and leave MusicBee open all night, the morning playlist won't come on. That's fine, and I can live with that. But even when I close MusicBee at night, I don't get any sound in the morning. I have noticed that when I do get up, MusicBee is open to the playlist I selected, but nothing has actually played - or if it has, it hasn't reached my speakers.
The other "trick" here is that when I'm listening during the evenings, it's through some Bose speakers that are plugged directly into the computer. When I go to bed, I switch the computer over to a small Bluetooth speaker and put on something to go to sleep (edited to add:) playing something from Spotify.(end edit) The Bluetooth speaker powers itself down when it hasn't received an audio signal for 20 minutes, and the computer switches back to the Bose speakers. That still works as designed.
The only difference between what I did before my playlists stopped working and after is that I'm listening to more .flacs and .mp3s via MusicBee in the evening. Is MusicBee by some chance leaving some process open that is blocking Task Scheduler from opening the playlist properly? Or if I should be looking into some other issue?
I can't think of anything else that has changed. I have Windows set to tell me when updates are available, not to install them on its own; but I don't know if Windows always obeys me.
Sorry for the length of this; I'm trying to type up everything I can think of.
Thanks.