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General Discussion / Re: Question here.

« on: Yesterday at 10:31:33 PM »

I'll need to see a copy of the playlists.xml file from your wacup settings folder (preferences > advanced > diagnostics > settings locations tab will provide the folder path you need to search within). I still can't replicate this issue & am now wondering if the file requested might be the problem.

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Preview Build Discussion / Re: bugs in version 1.99.45.23528

« on: February 17, 2026, 01:53:36 PM »

It's also a comparatively old version of WINE at this point (with 11 having just come out) so it could also be related to that. The always on top under Windows is determined by the main window & then any child windows associated to it will follow that but turning it off is down to the OS window manager to then re-adjust things as I don't do anything specific with the child windows. Under WINE the window handling doesn't always seem to match what Windows is doing (e.g. tooltips & their z-order / focus issues) so as I can't see it not behaving as I'd expected under Windows I'm going to have to agree that this is most likely a WINE / DE specific issue.

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General Discussion / Re: Question here.

« on: February 17, 2026, 01:48:12 PM »

What WACUP version & build type? Also where specifically in the UI are you triggering a playlist rename to occur? As seeing such characters would imply a bad string conversion happening (with the OS trying to represent string data with a wrong assumption) but I'm not seeing such a problem from a quick re-test with the current build when renaming in the places I can think off (i.e. the media library navigation tree node & within the library playlists root view).

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General Discussion / Re: Repeated Artist Names

« on: February 13, 2026, 08:15:12 AM »

I need the library.idx file as well.

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Preview Build Discussion / Re: Problem with ATF (Advanced Title Formatting)

« on: February 11, 2026, 08:41:01 PM »

It's not an issue I've seen & there's nothing obvious I can see which would be causing the formatting string to the altered especially not for it to be clipped unless there's some 3rd party plug-in or quirk in the timing of the atf processing that's somehow modifying it (not that it should vs the working copy it uses to avoid such issues). What build were you using prior to the January one which was behaving?

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Opening a new instance.

« on: February 11, 2026, 07:27:32 PM »

You'd have to go back to a build that doesn't have the problem (I don't know what that'd be as fixing the issue instead of trawling back through old code commits was a better use of my limited time at the weekend). The spawning a new process shortcut from the current instance or using the /new command-line action when also relying on the use of another provided settings folder copy for it to use is what's triggering the problem to occur so for that I don't have any nice workaround unless you make another unrelated install & then mess around with trying to copy the existing second instance's settings folder into that or just doing it all from scratch with 2 different installs.

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General Discussion / Re: How to install the Last.fm scrobbler plug-in?

« on: February 11, 2026, 07:09:20 PM »

The nature of the share doesn't matter as it just has to be via an un-mapped location & the file metadata has to have also been cached within the local library db which is why I'd asked in both of the replies I've made about this problem for it to be checked.

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General Discussion / Re: How to install the Last.fm scrobbler plug-in?

« on: February 11, 2026, 05:19:07 PM »

That looks like an un-mapped network share from the path shown so I've got to assume you're having the issue I described. Looking for that file in the local library part of the media library window & there not being a length shown would confirm if that's the cause. It requires a new build to get the needed fix (not yet ready as a new preview build) & a refresh of the metadata in the local library after the newer build has been installed.

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General Discussion / Re: How to install the Last.fm scrobbler plug-in?

« on: February 11, 2026, 08:55:08 AM »

Is the information for the file showing the correct length in the local library & alt+3 file information dialog?

I know of an issue with getting the length for files in un-mapped network shares but am not aware of that not working for anything else (local file or via mapped to a drive letter network share). Alternatively there's an option on the native scrobbler prefs page to mostly ignore the length but that's not ideal.

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General Discussion / Re: Repeated Artist Names

« on: February 11, 2026, 08:50:53 AM »

I'd need to see a copy of the library.dat/library.idx files from the wacup settings folder (preferences -> advanced -> diagnostics -> settings locations will indicate the folder for your setup).

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Opening a new instance.

« on: February 08, 2026, 12:09:45 PM »

If it's been broken for months why only report it now? I can see that there's something not behaving during the new process spawning which'll need to be looked into so hopefully I'll have it resolved as part of the next build due out later this month.

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General Discussion / Re: How to install the Last.fm scrobbler plug-in?

« on: February 04, 2026, 01:34:47 PM »

It is appearing within WACUP (Preferences > Plug-ins > General Purpose) but clicking on it then the 'Configure' button is not allowing me to configure it (no dialogue appear) - which I presume I would need to be able to log in to the service.

The config button being available to click just means the plug-in has reported there's a config method but there's nothing to indicate that it's not a dummy one (i.e. wouldn't do anything). iirc the last.fm provided plug-in didn't have a working config as it relied on their desktop client to handle it. The even older standalone last.fm plug-in did have a working config but iirc that won't show / crashes on modern versions of Windows since it was built in a manner that conflicts with security changes that have been applied to the OS since that time.

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Skins / Re: Big Bento Modern skin crashing

« on: January 31, 2026, 03:14:08 PM »

The problem is I still can't get it to fail as you seem to be able to do consistently even when doing those steps (something I had already tried to see if it was just against any modern skin or if its skin specific as seems to be the case). Per my last reply I may have found an equivalent way to make it fail (involving disabling parts of the skin script file noted) & it's something that'll be included when the next build is made available (I don't have an eta as I'm still trying to work through things from the build before the holidays).

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General Discussion / Re: Freeze Window Positions not working as expected

« on: January 31, 2026, 03:09:26 PM »

Maybe something like https://github.com/kangyu-california/PersistentWindows might help... though I've currently not tested it but it seems like it might be matching what I think with it being an OS problem messing with things which another user has reported found that to help deal with what's going wrong.

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General Discussion / Re: Freeze Window Positions not working as expected

« on: January 28, 2026, 03:06:49 PM »

Until I can try it out, it might be Windows trying to be helpful or it's from some of the handling to get off-screen windows to come back (which has been a whole series of problems in its own). The freeze action is more for blocking user interactions as the OS & other actions can override that from what I remember but most likely it's just me doing something wrong that's not cooperating.