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General Discussion / Re: Happy Holidays !!!

« on: December 06, 2023, 08:59:13 PM »

Happy Holidays!


On my Santa list:


- Peace on earth
- A shiny WACUP - Home Assistant integration 


Best Wishes for 2024 ! ☃️🎄🎅

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General Discussion / Re: Main window - ghost bar

« on: August 19, 2023, 10:26:23 PM »

Thanks for the feedback.
For now I have put studio.xnf as read only; it seems to lock size and position; it won't lock window enabled/disabled but not a major issue as it is quite simple to toggle if needed. Should be a good fix for now, thanks again.

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General Discussion / Re: Main window - ghost bar

« on: August 17, 2023, 02:56:58 PM »

Thanks for the pointers, will do further testing,
Cheers

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General Discussion / Re: Main window - ghost bar

« on: August 16, 2023, 11:01:26 PM »

here's what the 1st issue mentioned above looks like
queue is usually bottom left and all 3 unwanted windows appear on top of each other, I just moved them slightly.
This is still happening after resetting studio.xnl

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General Discussion / Re: Main window - ghost bar

« on: August 16, 2023, 10:51:25 PM »

Thank you Darren, it did work 


just PM'd you a copy of both files.


The other display issues I have:


1- if I restart WACUP a few times, the queue manager windows is eventually disabled (windows not showing anymore and checkmark in preferences is gone) and all of a sudden Lyrics, Waveform seeker and Big clock windows are all enabled without me changing their state (originally disabled). No clue why this happens.


2- If I change screen resolution, windows positions/sizes can get all scrambled and I have to redo everything once back to my usual resolution. Is there a way to completely "lock" all windows states/position/sizes so it can't be changed automatically no matter what happens (unless user does changes it via preferences)?


Thanks for your support, much appreciated.

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General Discussion / Main window - ghost bar

« on: August 16, 2023, 06:31:56 PM »

Using latest release and can't get rid of a "ghost bar" which just appeared under the main window.
see gray bar below between player and playlist
other windows will dock around it like if it was part of the window.

I've tried just about everything to get rid of it, restarting, changing skins and options, opening/closing drawers, etc.
It won't go away....


Using modern-Christmas does work so it's directly related to the standard Winamp modern skin parameters.


Any advice on how to get rid of it or troubleshoot?





Thx.

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Alternate Way of Saving Window Arrangements

« on: September 07, 2022, 05:37:26 PM »

Thank you Darren,
glad to see the command line feature back, and my ability to beta test
looking forward to testing the latest versions & changes.

should upgrade in the coming weeks.

Hopefully the freeze feature should solve my Video window resize issue.
Any plans to add this feature to modern skins? Worst case I'll use classic skins.

Is a new API still on your list of features to implement?

Thanks again for all the great work on WACUP.

Cheers,

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Alternate Way of Saving Window Arrangements

« on: September 07, 2022, 04:48:16 PM »

The option added a couple of beta builds back to freeze classic skins windows positions goes a long way toward satisfying the reason for this request. Thank you for adding it.

I don't use WACUP to play video files, but I assume the related improvements in this area are also appreciated.

At which version was this option to freeze classic skins windows positions added?


just curious as I'm still on 7236
(Loading files via the command-line was removed starting from this version;
waiting for it to be reimplemented in the new WACUP core... unless it's been done, haven't checked recently... guess I should  [size=78%])[/size]

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Alternate Way of Saving Window Arrangements

« on: July 12, 2022, 09:40:10 PM »

+1, following.
Been having issues with the video window suddenly resizing even though "resize video window to fit video" is disabled.
This would be a potential workaround until I find the root cause or the issue is fixed.

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General Discussion / Re: Winamp prepares a relaunch, new beta version almost ready

« on: November 19, 2021, 07:11:32 PM »

I guess what some organizations dont understand when acquiring software is the user profile of people actually using the product and their motivations/expectations.

I'm pretty sure most people still using Wacup/Winamp don't give a **** about funky marketing crap and new logos. But a number of us care about features/functionalities and developers listening to users, not marketers.

Also, I'd bet that a lot of us still use it because we want to have control over the media we listen to, not the other we around:

" artists and audio creators we're all about giving you control over your content. We'll help you to connect closely with your fans"

Wow. No. you don't get it... I dont want you to connect with me, I'll let you know if I want to...

And yes some of us like "Blobby gradient experiences" 😂 , thanks Audrey. But we like it fast and CPU/OS efficient. Don't spend your dev time and money on something which already exists (Its called Milkdrop Audrey...)

Oh man... Another streaming app coming...

Cheers.



 

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General Discussion / Re: Winamp prepares a relaunch, new beta version almost ready

« on: November 19, 2021, 06:07:32 PM »

If the "new" Winamp is as slow as the "new" Winamp website, I wouldn't be too concerned...

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Current File Remains Locked when Stopped (Regression vs. WinAmp)

« on: August 18, 2021, 06:14:17 PM »

Glad this could help;

Fyi, my approach is actually to set a hotkey in the file remover tab which deletes the currently playing file and another hotkey to move the currently playing file to some "approved" folder.
I then load a playlist/folder of files to be auditioned and simply delete/approve files as they play.

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Current File Remains Locked when Stopped (Regression vs. WinAmp)

« on: August 17, 2021, 08:40:42 PM »

"Preferences - playlist - file remover"
Is what I use here; can even delete file while song is playing.
As per your use case, I use it to cleanup my "auditioning" folder and quickly move songs to the correct genre folders.
Actually a benefit vs classic Winamp.

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Feature Requests

« on: June 23, 2021, 03:10:31 PM »

Thanks Darren, not surprised either.

Yes I can still use it with local/static LRC files

but other than reading/displaying LRC files, the main benefit of Minilyrics was the fact that it was automatically searching/downloading locally LRC data. (*Synchronized* lyrics) or flat txt files when LRC unavailable.

So even if it was unsupported, it would still find recent lyrics files. Not sure exactly what was the search engine behavior and where it was looking for files but it did work and you could manually search/see/select your preferred version if needed. You could also contribute and edit/upload your own LRC files. Which means there must be some repository on the web, hopefully not Minilyrics proprietary; otherwise some sort of repository would probably be needed.

The format itself ,LRC , is not proprietary and I guess would be the best approach as it was common enough that people were still contributing to the database.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)

In a nutshell, what would be needed is:

- Ability to read/display LRC files (Winamp Skinned)
- Automated search engine/repository for LRC files.
- Offset setting.
- Lyrics/timing editor to maintain contributions

Thanks for considering this on the wishlist.

Cheers,

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Wishlist / Feature Requests / Re: Feature Requests

« on: June 22, 2021, 01:41:06 AM »

Adding to this thread as it is directly related:
DrO, I know you were not a big fan of Minilyrics, but for my use case (displaying synchronnized lyrics), it was working really fine.
Unfortunately, it was not supported/updated for a while and the servers now seems to be shut down for good (Crinsoft.com is down as welll as the lyrics server(s)).
I also know it's not top priority on the wishlist but just adding my voice for a replacement solution.
Also, if anyone has any decent alternative for synchronized lyrics, please share your feedback.
Soundhound/Shazam offer synced lyrics but I doubt there is any type of API available.
Cheers,