Author Topic: Crash when holding down the Playback: Skip Forward/Backwards x seconds button  (Read 1138 times)

esora510

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I use MusicBee to play audiobooks, but I have a problem. 

Sometimes, when the Playback Skip Forward/Backwards x Seconds button is used, the application crashes. It tends to happen when I hold down the button to seek through the playback a little faster.

This isn't a huge problem for music, but when a 10, 20 or even 100 hour audiobook crashes because when MusicBee does not cleanly exit, the bookmark for where one is in a book is reverted to a prior one. This is usually many hours away from where I was. This is kind of a big problem.

I am aware crashes like this are extremely hard to fix, so is it possible to perhaps iteratively move up the stored bookmark for playback as a fail-safe every 5-10 minutes? Or, is this a setting I'm just unaware of that can do this for me?


Steven

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Can you be specific - have you assigned a command button to Playback: Skip forward 5 seconds ?
And are clicking that button? For me the mouse doesn't auto-repeat so i have to click quickly but that doesn't sound like what you are doing.
if i assign the command to a hotkey, and hold the key down then it doesn't cause any issues for me.
So what do you mean by "crash"?
You might try updating to v3.5 from the downloads page, disabling any DSP plugins that are enabled, using "wasapi (shared)" for output and unticking "skip starting and ending silence" in the player preferences
Last Edit: May 28, 2023, 12:13:01 AM by Steven

esora510

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Yes, I have assigned 4 buttons to the different skips for 5s and 20s. Crash has happened with all of them at this point. I have it bound to the keyboard and holding the key button down does repeat.

It doesn't crash all the time, but I've had this happen across 3 devices now. (All Windows 10) I believe I use those settings on all devices and have no plugins because I don't need them for audiobooks, my version is 3.5.8447. The crash is an application hang after about a 200ms freeze, with no error message. On re-launching the program after it crashes, the bookmark is reverted to the last time that I opened it, many hours from where I was.




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could you send me a link to your settings file (help/ support/ view settings)


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i cant reproduce any issues.
If it's a .m4a file then google the forum for bass_aac.dll
Otherwise, if you send a link to one of the audiobook files i will have a look
Last Edit: May 28, 2023, 06:11:42 AM by Steven

esora510

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Yeah, the files are m4b, basically the same thing, it isn't one file in particular but occasionally happens with any of them.

Here is a file that has broken multiple times.
https://mega.nz/file/QX8gVIxL#bb_NBZsz-9v_1zSQZ55MTCkLbumlwjgMbHbmShvfM7w

Is this the forum you're talking about?
https://www.un4seen.com/


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Is this the forum you're talking about?
https://www.un4seen.com/
He means our forum, although un4seen is the source of the file.  Go to this thread and download the file linked to at the end of the first post, then place bass_aac.dll into the main MusicBee folder that holds MusicBee.exe:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=23454.0


Steven

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i tried using that file and cant make MB crash. Hopefully bass_aac.dll will fix the issue for you