3.8 reports, queries and bugs

Started by Dotpitch,

Ian @ un4seen

Quote from: piovrauzMinor cosmethic fix: when in the message windows, right click let you open link to websites.
But there are duplicated entries. It would be nicer if there were no duplicated.

Here's an update that should eliminate duplicate URLs...

   www.un4seen.com/stuff/xmplay.exe

Quote from: mirGot this with 3.8.0.5 when trying "Write to disk > Encoder - FLAC"


Do you happen to have XMPlay's output resolution set to 32 bit? If so, try changing that to 24 bit or lower, as the FLAC encoder doesn't support 32 bit.

Quote from: mirAlso, 3.8.0.9 can't encode in any way, not lame, not oggenc, not just wav

There was indeed an encoding problem introduced in the 3.8.0.9 update. It should be working again in the update above.

winner

Quote from: Ian @ un4seenThat's strange. I'm not sure why that would be happening. Does it happen if you right-click on a link in your browser and select "Copy Link Location" (or equivalent) and then try to paste that into the URL box? What about if you just highlight and copy a word, and try to paste that? Also, what Windows version are you using?

Does the problem also happen with the 3.8 release version, or with 3.7? (available from the support site)

Strange indeed. After doing some malware scans and registry cleaning, the paste option is now working ("fixes" applied to version 3.8.0.10). However I see that the URL dropdown just records history of what was pasted there. Is that the expected functioning? Or should it also list URLs opened from web links or from URLs in the library?

Ian @ un4seen

Good to hear that URL pasting is working again. To answer your question, the URL box's drop-down list does indeed only contain URLs that have previously been entered into the URL box, and not any URLs that have been opened in other ways.

mir

Hello Ian
Yes, it was 32, changed to 24 bit and everything good  ;D
And 3.8.10 work fine
Thank you very much!

winner

Quote from: Ian @ un4seenGood to hear that URL pasting is working again. To answer your question, the URL box's drop-down list does indeed only contain URLs that have previously been entered into the URL box, and not any URLs that have been opened in other ways.

Thanks, Ian! I don't know how much in demand this feature would be, but some users might like the idea of XMPlay keeping history for URLs opened in other ways, too. I might post a suggestion in the 3.9 features request topic and see how it flies. For now though I'm happy that this functionality is working!

Jace

The streams are kept in the library too, aren't they? Could pop open the search dialog, tell it to search from library too and type in 'http'. A list of all the streams you've ever played! (This is, of course, depending on add-to-library-on-play thingy being enabled.)

piovrauz

#126
Stream related bug. I usually found that this stream -http://shoutcast2.hardcoreradio.nl- crashes XMPlay ('this program has stopped..." on thos lines)
http://www.hardcoreradio.nl is the main website, and appears to have issues ("database error").
Winamp says "ICY 401 service unavailable" if I try to open that stream.
So maybe something is wrong in how broken/unavail streams are treated?

Jace

No crash here. Only says "Connecting..." for a short while, then gets double red strike on playlist. Version 3.8.0.7.

Possibly some plugin trying to do things?

piovrauz

Tch. You guessed right. I totally forgot about having that enabled.
xmp-ffmpeg is having too many issues...
Now, how can one just have it ignore a stream?
I'd like to use it for it's "let's call it splitter", but like this is too buggy.
I'll copy the post to the xmp-ffmpeg thread.

Dotpitch

Quote from: sagaLet me guess, it's xmp-ffmpeg. :P
Oh no, not again! It's silly this plugin pops up all over the place, just because it support virtually all formats.

saga

I think the problem is not the wealth of formats supported, but rather the glue code between XMPlay and ffmpeg. I mean, come on, ffmpeg is such a popular library that is used everywhere, especially in the linux world, I highly doubt that it can be crashed that easily with random files.

Jimmy Neutron

I think it might have gotten lost in another thread (about random) but I think it would be nice to have "follow track" work in the library.  There are settings for playlist and for extended, but if I want to check the last played and number of times in the library, I'm lost.

And another issue I just stumbled across... if I "Remove and Delete File" that is currently playing, everything stops.  It would seem much smoother to just go to the next track, either consecutive or random.

Jace

One way to have that is to sort the library by the 'last play' column and always keep it at the top. :)

Or you can Ctrl-Up or Ctrl-Down on it manually to jump to currently playing track and highlight it. But I s'pose an automatic follow option wouldn't hurt either.

rst

a query, the ability to perform a squared selection to select several songs on the playlist.

it would be very interesting to have that, dont you think ?

Jimmy Neutron

I'm not sure I understand a squared selection.  Do you mean dragging the mouse to highlight/select a rectangular area?

Jimmy Neutron

If a particular track is playing, and XMPlay is closed, the song is essentially paused.  When XMPlay is restarted, the song restarts at that point and plays to the end.  In my mind, that means that the track was played once (half before and half after), but the playcount is incremented twice for that track (once before and once after).

Alt

Here's my old problem with XMPlay and ASIO4All. I hope that the new video will explain everything better.
Quote from: AltIan, there's some pretty annoying bug related to Windows Explorer (on XP/2003 at least). When I'm using asio4all in some cases (like opening files/folders, closing asio4all panel during playback) xmplay may freeze. It has something to do with A4A tray icon & explorer in general because when I kill 'explorer' process & open files with 7Zip File Manager, hang doesn't occur (also doesn't occur with other ASIO, DS etc).
I wouldn't mind for some ini tweak that will disable A4A panel monitoring & dynamic settings change if that can help.
Quote from: Ian @ un4seenIt isn't obvious to me when XMPlay freezes in that video. Can you confirm at what point it happens? Please also confirm what ASIO4ALL version you're using, and whether you're using the latest XMPlay build...
I tried repeatedly drag'n'dropping files/folders into XMPlay's main window area (so the playlist was replaced) while playing via ASIO4ALL, but I couldn't get it to freeze.
Regarding the "ini tweak that will disable A4A panel monitoring" suggestion, do you mean an option to disable the ASIO4ALL tray icon? If so, I don't think that's possible as the icon is displayed by the ASIO4ALL driver (not XMPlay).

Ian @ un4seen

When the ASIO4ALL panel is closed, it sends a reset message to the XMPlay ASIO plugin, which tells the plugin to reinitialize the ASIO driver at the next available opportunity, so that will explain a little interruption when you close the ASIO4ALL panel; the interruption does seem to be quite long in your case for some reason (I'm not seeing that happen here). Ideally, ASIO4ALL wouldn't send a reset message if no settings have changed, but if you're not going to change any settings, why open the ASIO4ALL panel anyway? :)