Version 0.9y-2 feedback

[PeterSt]

Eric - I really don't know what you are talking about in relation to your before described issue on this. So, please describe this apparently new problem in full. If you think you already did, please do it again. I see three subjects in one by now.

Thank you,
Peter

[AUDIODIDAKT]

About the B.B. King issue ... can anyone provide me with a literal example, including the folder structure in use (a screen copy of Embedded Explorer where the album completely shows including the music files will suffice).
Also, what exactly is the problem ? messages ?

I just tried it, but all works. However, possibly I solved it indirectly via something else which by now has changed. Please use 0.9y-2a for it (a zip for that is somethere in this topic and at the bottom of the original 0.9y-2 download).

Thanks,
Peter

0.9y-2a, installed several days ago, but B.B. King issue isn't solved.
and its not only B.B. King, lot more albums with a dot in it.(not all)

[AUDIODIDAKT]

Just clicking on such an album won't open the folder.
You have click the triangular icon instead.
 

[Eric]

Eric - I really don't know what you are talking about in relation to your before described issue on this. So, please describe this apparently new problem in full. If you think you already did, please do it again. I see three subjects in one by now.

Thank you,
Peter

No,no, Peter, not a new problem. Just an explanation of what I do. If it was already clear, please ignore it.
Thanks, Eric.

[Telstar]

Not tried y2 yet, but before I went away I occasionally experienced an error (with sound stopping) after CHANGING the volume with the mouse in y1-d.

Because I usually change it only by one notch, would it be possible to implement the mousewheel? It would be very handy until I manage to have the IRtrans and remote working (which means rolling back to vista )

[PeterSt]

Just clicking on such an album won't open the folder.
You have click the triangular icon instead.
 

Now I get it ...

[PeterSt]

When attempting to play, in UN attended,  "Cannonball Adderley - Something Else" encoded in 24_96 flac, after the flac's had gone through their initial conversion process and the GUI dropped out of sight, I was presented with a blank screen ( was expecting the cover art next ) and about 5 seconds afterwards an Out Of Memory error box appeared. I clicked OK and nothing further happened. Alt-X to get back to GUI was the action.

Initially I had the split file size setting at 100MB then bumped it up to 128MB but it made no difference.

Tried it a couple of times with same result, so turned logging on for last attempt.

Tried again in ATTENDED mode and same results.

This is solved for the next version;
I think I wrote somewhere (Release Notes ?) about the Split Size being dynamically, meant for the filtering, but a sequence of errors from my hand caused it to work always AND wrongly; When a second track came up, the SplitSize would be set for you at 426MB.
Generally this only happens with non 16/44.1 files, and thus indeed it was true that hirez files didn't work much good anymore.
All behaves normal again now and the whole album stays under 1.34GB. Well, here.

[PeterSt]

Not tried y2 yet, but before I went away I occasionally experienced an error (with sound stopping) after CHANGING the volume with the mouse in y1-d.

Because I usually change it only by one notch, would it be possible to implement the mousewheel? It would be very handy until I manage to have the IRtrans and remote working (which means rolling back to vista )

Many of that that kind of errors were solved in 0.9y-2(a). I myself see nothing going wrong anymore with the volume (use it all the time). Of course, if I have to I can let it go wrong ...

I think the scrollwheel already works, but you'd have to select the control first (meaning click the button), and next I don't see much difference with sliding the slider.
As you know, it won't respond fast enough to be of real use (or have an advantage) anyway. Well, IMO.
Also, the granularity doesn't fit the volume steps.

Peter

[Calibrator]

About the B.B. King issue ... can anyone provide me with a literal example, including the folder structure in use (a screen copy of Embedded Explorer where the album completely shows including the music files will suffice).

Hi Peter,

I have attached a few screen captures to try and demonstrate the coverart display bug I am seeing.

Coverart_Bug_01: shows the folder structure of my music. I don't currently have them split my genre's, but simply stored as artist\albumname format under a high level folder of M1 , M2 , etc, which corresponds to the disc volume they reside on.

Coverart_Bug_02: shows the initial layout when I click on the upper level M2 entry, with the first entry in the middle panel highlighted to show the other artwork in the righthand panel. Note that "A.C. Marias" , "A.R. Kane" and "a silver mt. zion" are shown.

Coverart_Bug_03: from the last picture I clicked on the entry on the left panel, and, as expected, the contents of the "1000 Homo DJ's" were displayed correctly.

Coverart_Bug_04: following the last picture I then clicked on "A.C. Marias" entry on left panel. Coverart for album appeared in middle panel.

Coverart_Bug_05: clicked on the album entry on left panel under A.C. Marias ( it expanded to show track listed as expected ), however the coverart was now missing in middle panel, although the path text was showing. The artwork showing in right panel was a leftover from previous 'click'.

Coverart_Bug_06: re-clicked back on the main A.C. Marias entry on the left panel and now there is no coverart showing, which differs from the "Coverart_bug_04" scenario above.

Coverart_Bug_07: starting from the view I got in "Coverart_Bug_02" , I then clicked on "A.R. Kane" and no change occured. I would have expected the contents of the A.R. Kane folder to be have shown now. Note: this is the same scenario if I was highlighting my "B.B. King" entry on my "M1" disc.

Coverart_Bug_08" If I click on the little 'expand' triangle to the left of the A.R. Kane album, and then highlight the "I" album, the coverart shows as expected.

Coverart_Bug_09: Just prior to this screenshot I had highted the "A Certain Ratio" entry on left panel. This pcture shows a null response when highlighting the "a silver mt. zion" entry. In a similar scenario to just above, if I expand the entry using the little triangle, and then highlight the album entry underneath, the covertart appears as expected.


Common theme in this bug is the presence of a dot (.) in the album name, and it maybe just co-incidental, but there are only 4 characters following last dot in the name _where you get NO initial response_. The positioning of these artist names within the folder structure may be having an influence either side of the actual entry.

Good luck in tracking it down Peter! It's likely another quirky m$oft gotcha where the pathing names are being mangled somehow.

Cheers,

Russ

[PeterSt]

Russ, great.

I think I have seen all the situations pass by once in a while, but never really sat down to look into what happened exactly when. Well, here is my guide !

Your remark about the 4 positions to the right of the dot is key, because it at least prooves that it is me doing something wrong there; indeed I use the last 4 positions (max) to determined whether something is a file or a folder. There's no other means available except checking the existence which may cause a bunch of additional IOs depending on the functionality needing this info (just suppose I had to do this for each track each time Embedded Explorer shows).
But then this is dot-net and I guess I will be able to find some low level API function that is able to determine it (Explorer can do it, so I must be able to).

Allright, I will be fixing this all today, tomorrow ...
Peter

[Calibrator]

Here's a few  more examples from my M1 harddisc.

The following artists names DO cause problems:

B.B. King
G.E.N.E
J.J. Cale
Jay B. Jay
K. D. Lang

while the following do NOT cause issues.

B.B. KIng & Diane Schuur
B.B. King , Big Mama Thorton & Muddy Waters
Booker T. & The MG's
M.J. Harris & Bill Laswell
Sammy Davis Jr. & Laurindo Almeida

Sort of reinforces the theory that if there is a dot in the folder name, it needs at least 6 characters (including space) following the dot for things to work as desired.

Cheers,

Russ

[PeterSt]

B.B. King and everyone he played with , is solved for the next version (0.9y-3).

[Telstar]

B.B. King and everyone he played with , is solved for the next version (0.9y-3).

I noticed that a folder with dot also causes problem to the cover gallery. I just removed the point (it was ALT. ROCK replaced with full word).

BTW, Peter, the xxhe unexpected error with changing the volume still happens with y-2a to me. Tell me which logs do you need (the crash is a couple hours ago, though).

[Telstar]

Many of that that kind of errors were solved in 0.9y-2(a). I myself see nothing going wrong anymore with the volume (use it all the time). Of course, if I have to I can let it go wrong ...

I think the scrollwheel already works, but you'd have to select the control first (meaning click the button), and next I don't see much difference with sliding the slider.
As you know, it won't respond fast enough to be of real use (or have an advantage) anyway. Well, IMO.
Also, the granularity doesn't fit the volume steps.

Peter

Two things on the scrollwheel:
1) It would be possible to make it work just by putting the mouse on the volume slider w/o clicking it? (i just got an error again by clicking + one scroll up, very annoying -see the previous post). OR just when xxhe window is active.
2) To be a scroll of just ONE step at a time. This can be related to the scroll lines in the mouse properties in vista/w7. Can you verify this? I think the default is 3 lines and the volume jumped of 3 steps, which is obviously more than I want
This is the reason why i want it. With the screen at 2m from my seating place i want to just adjust the volume with one mouse click/scroll. If i had the remote working i wouldnt be bothering i know.

More things to improve usability:
3) Add to gallery working on the treeview (the explorer thing), instead of having to select dozens of albums which takes up to ONE MINUTE in my case. Scrolling in the library is VERY slow when exists highres covers. This is the reason why i tried to make a gallery today at last. And its working

4) Next and "NT" are too small and the second one lacks the tooltip.

5) Repeat playlist, repeat track commands, ticks or whatever would be very useful. i often like to repeat one track 3-4 times. Also stop after current track (note: Foobar does this).

6) not sure if reordering the tracks in the playlist is fixed now.

[JohanZ]

The following artists names DO cause problems:........

Same here for :
U.K.
J.J.Cale
Selection in the directory structure of the gallery don't give the album information in the middle pane!