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General Discussion / Re: Portables, Syncing, Metadata

« on: December 13, 2019, 12:28:00 PM »

Thanks heaps. I'm at a loss too, as it is also now no longer reliably syncing, and will crash the app every couple of thousand tracks. I've presently decided to just autofill to a spare storage device I have, and will copy/paste that to my mobile device later, to reduce downtime. Sometimes a track will sync across with all data, sometimes without - so the number of tracks without Artist data rises and falls depending on how it's feeling. :/

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General Discussion / Portables, Syncing, Metadata

« on: December 08, 2019, 11:17:19 PM »

Ohhh boy it's me again. :O

So my old setup: Android phone (S9+ Android 9), connect to Win10x64 PC via USB C cable, a playlist is set to sync. Click sync, everything sends across, metadata is written, done.

Recently (hahaha which means what have I broken omg), when I do this, it says XXXXX songs are on device that aren't in the library, and YYYYY songs are in the playlist and not on the device - delete the ones on device, leave them, etc. When I look into it, there are XXXXX songs that have "No Artist". In WACUP itself, it certainly has this field (hence the YYYYY). If I sync it across, it will write it again as No Artist.

I thought it was the transcoding settings, but even songs that weren't being transcoded are being sent across with no metadata. I've tried just syncing straight to the sdcard to take the MTP protocol out of the mix, but it's still happening.

Any ideas?


EDIT: Oh and the weirdest thing is, because it's set to "<Artist>\<Album>\## - <Title>", it will actually write the Artist folder, the Album folder, then the track, but somehow not also write the metadata to the file itself.

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General Discussion / MTP Issue

« on: December 07, 2019, 12:57:59 PM »

EDIT notification: solution in second half of this post

OK so again, probably a PEBCAK error but I recently cannot effectively use the MTP plugin. Win10x64, Samsung S9+, build 4346.

When I plug in my phone, *normally* WACUP picks up the device no issues and it'll display all the tracks on both internal and external storage.

What I'm finding now is it will only pick up the internal storage, unless I've navigated into the external storage (using Explorer) before loading up WACUP. However, it will NOT find any of the media, and in fact, when using Explorer, all those folders appear empty. Unless I've "previewed" the directory using Explorer, it doesn't exist, and in fact it prevents Explorer from seeing it whilst WACUP is open. I have to close out of WACUP and reconnect my phone to see the files using Explorer.

If I haven't gone into internal storage, browsing in Explorer to it after WACUP has picked it up looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/uzYxmHJ
I've installed WACUP after completely removing the previous install in case I'd toggled something dumb... Tried different USB cables and ports also.
WTF have I done?

EDIT:

Remembered this was somewhat similar to another issue I had, aka "external storage not showing up in windows 10".

It's a known Android bug (), documented here:
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/46315/not-all-files-are-visible-over-mtp
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/134230/sd-card-not-showing-files-when-connected-to-pc

TL;DR PEBCAK, but at least this problem remembered the solution
Aside: why has this happened more times in the last month now that I'm on Win10, and never happened when I was on Win7?

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General Discussion / Re: Duplicating Smart Views

« on: December 07, 2019, 12:01:08 PM »

Now that I've disabled ml_local and am using ml_ll, where is the setting for media directory and to rescan? @_@ I've added songs to the My Music dir but it's not showing up automagically, so I suspect something's not right with my setup.

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General Discussion / Re: Duplicating Smart Views

« on: December 04, 2019, 11:45:44 AM »

And yup, it was me being dumb. Had both activated, that would explain things. Thanks!

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General Discussion / Duplicating Smart Views

« on: December 02, 2019, 11:55:52 AM »

Build 1.0.8.4346, Win10x64. On closing, present Smart Views get duplicated.

Am I doing something wrong?

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Resolved Issues / Re: Buzz On Close

« on: September 30, 2019, 06:43:01 AM »

Seems to not with the DirectSound one.

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Resolved Issues / Buzz On Close

« on: September 25, 2019, 12:29:05 PM »

Version: 1.0.7.4264
OS: Win7x64
Output plugin: Not So Yasapi v1.1.2
Driver: Realtek (onboard audio)

What happens: on closing/pausing audio, speakers produce BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ noise, only stops if I play something else from another app (e.g., start Youtube).

Solution: rollback to .4130 (happened to the last public update as well but I forgot to lodge a ticket), and this issue doesn't occur. 

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General Discussion / in_mp3.dll Issue

« on: September 01, 2019, 01:42:24 PM »

Recently updated to .4130, but I think I recall it happening with the previous public preview. in_mp3.dll doesn't load properly (in input plugins, it shows as "Not Loaded"). It didn't seem to affect me, so I ignored it, until a recently downloaded album just wouldn't add to my library or play when I tried to manually play - it played fine in other media players (VLC, even WMP), so I gathered it was a problem with the input plugin.

I grabbed the in_mp3.dll from the Winamp folder and pasted it into the WACUP folder (the file sizes differed quite significantly, being about 2XXkB vs 1XXkB respectively), and the files imported and played without any issue.

Oddly, other mp3 files played fine, so I'm not sure why specifically these didn't. Any ideas?

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General Discussion / Re: Dock Behaviour with Multi-Monitor Setup

« on: August 20, 2019, 11:23:43 PM »

That's a pity, I wonder what some programs are using as they know to limit themselves to a certain screen only (for example, Firefox windowed/full screen toggle takes it from windowed, "full screen" on current screen, whilst double clicking the bar takes it to full screen all screens). Given the existence of ultrawide monitors, the behaviour of the docked shade isn't particularly useful...

In that vein, when manually positioning and resizing it, it won't snap to a monitor border - as we've already concluded, WACUP is unaware of where the monitor border is. This is counter to how any other software behaves, even iTunes will momentarily stop when I drag it near a border. I also use a software that allows me to split the screens into several cells, but WACUP does not allow itself to be controlled by this software. This suggests to me that WACUP is unique in how it handles it window... but I suspect this is something that is very difficult to "fix".

I'll see how I go with just using it manually resize to one screen only... :O

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General Discussion / Dock Behaviour with Multi-Monitor Setup

« on: August 19, 2019, 06:05:39 AM »

Hi,

Thanks heaps for reviving this media player, it's definitely been one of my favourites.

I've been playing around with Eyefinity for my Triple Monitor setup. Whilst it is not enabled (just Windows managing extended desktop across the three identical screens), it'll dock on any of the three monitors, and stay on just one screen.

In Eyefinity, WACUP obviously detects it as one giant screen and thus docks across all three - now you can imagine this wouldn't be particularly helpful (hotkeys on the left screen, title somewhere slightly to the right of center in the middle, exit and return to normal mode far right screen), so I was wondering if I'm missing some configuration that would allow me to limit it to just one of the three screens?

I'm using build 3276 on Win7x64.