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General Discussion / Re: Experiencing frequent crashes trying to play songs on startup

« Last post by yeacark on May 06, 2026, 05:26:55 PM »

I think I didn't express myself clearly, so I'll use a translator this time. What I meant was that Not So Direct is my preferred output option given the lack of logarithmic volume in the WASAPI output. In any case, this is a matter of personal preference. As you said, every output option has its pros and cons.

Actually, I also didn't mention earlier that I experienced stuttering, especially when I lowered the buffer from the default of 2000 to about 1000 to see if it would make a difference with the crashes. In fact, before it crashed, I noticed significant stuttering. Maybe check if it has something to do with buffering

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General Discussion / Re: Experiencing frequent crashes trying to play songs on startup

« Last post by dro on May 06, 2026, 04:54:26 PM »

What about using the /procdump mode is still causing issues for you as that should be able to catch failures otherwise good or bad behaviours shouldn't be altered whether that debugging mode is being used or not.

The OP has also mentioned that changing the output plug-in makes no difference to them.

As for the comment about WASAPI being better, imho that's not true when all of the output plug-ins can & do have issues for some setups & as I'm currently working on debugging a stuttering issue related to a crash fix that was introduced with the notsodirect plug-in for 24472 (something that 24360 didn't have but instead would cause it to crash) could be behind your problem. It's also way there are other output plug-ins provided & yes for some setups wasapi might be the better solution but directsound is generally a more compatible fix for what is being targetted sans the problems with it which have been being worked through.

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General Discussion / Re: Experiencing frequent crashes trying to play songs on startup

« Last post by yeacark on May 06, 2026, 04:38:07 PM »

I am experiencing the exact same issue since the last update (1.99.49.24360). However, after the new May 4th update nothing changed, and instead of happening only shortly after launch, it happens with a new playlist, so when I open a file from my media library with a 50% chance.

No error reporting gets triggered and running with /procdump or in safe mode still causes issues. Switching from Not So Direct to the WASAPI output did fix this issue, though, so I'd suggest looking into that, also because it's the best output you can choose at the moment.

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Resolved Issues / Re: [CHANGES MADE] [BUG] NSF/NSFe playlist incorrect for some files

« Last post by dro on May 06, 2026, 02:16:40 PM »

It'll need a new build as the input plug-in is seemingly working fine but with the alt+3 aspect there's a problem with how the core is handling the look-up for filepaths ending like "nsfe::NSF,16,,,0,,0" which is already meant to be dealt with to extract it out as 'nsfe' but something is going awry which I've still to debug further (but have a simple change for that which is better to do anyway). I can't replicate the normal atf handling failing to get the metadata unless you've got those items in the local library & if so then you'll need to try refreshing them as the metadata from that is used instead of always going to the file.

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I can do it as part of a post-release update patch instead of needing to involve a complete so that'll go up in the next few days.

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Resolved Issues / Re: [CHANGES MADE] [BUG] NSF/NSFe playlist incorrect for some files

« Last post by dro on May 06, 2026, 01:31:48 PM »

I'll have to look into why title is missing as I hadn't noticed it tbh as my playlist items seemed to be showing it whereas it's only via the alt+3 dialog that it's obviously failing to fill the fields when there is the handling to return it like with artist & few other metadata values (which seem to be returned as expected from an initial look).

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Resolved Issues / Re: [CHANGES MADE] [BUG] NSF/NSFe playlist incorrect for some files

« Last post by nelsonhf on May 06, 2026, 01:15:12 PM »

Thank you, the issue has been fixed in the latest builds. A question: Is it possible to show the track names in the playlist? I tried using the ATF formatting but it only shows the %artist% and %filename% tags (it seams that the plugin doesn't return the tag %title%)

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Preview Build Discussion / Re: Curious about the progress the WACUP project is making

« Last post by dro on May 06, 2026, 12:17:03 PM »

There are "smart views" in wacup's local library plug-in as that's what they were coded to replicate so I don't know why you're saying there aren't...

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Preview Build Discussion / Re: Curious about the progress the WACUP project is making

« Last post by MarcoDiGenova on May 06, 2026, 10:36:11 AM »

I was using Winamp in my clubs since the 90's... Never found another music program with floating windows which can open a video windows on a specific screen when a video file is in the playlist ans close the windows when the video ends (My playlist have MP3 AND MP4...) so stay with it even when it was no more supported.

A friend told me to try Wacup a few mouth ago and it's just the winamp spirit in 2026 ! You can easily try it in portable mode. The only problem (easy to hack) is that there is no smart views in the Wacup media library (But you just have to take a dll from Winamp and copy it in Wacup and you have smart views so not a real problem). Great software !

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Preview Build Discussion / Re: Curious about the progress the WACUP project is making

« Last post by Glamrlama on May 06, 2026, 03:54:28 AM »

I run both WinAmp 5.666 and the latest WACUP on my main library system under Win 11.  I run just WACUP as my player on 5 other Win 10/11 systems.

I still use WinAmp for maintaining my library meta data and artwork management. I've used it for so long and I am very familiar with the interface I saw no reason to move away from it.

WACUP I use as a pure player.  It runs smoother than WinAmp and handles my large libraries much better especially over network connections. WACUP I find is less buggy than Winamp and getting better on a regular basis. I usually update immediately as updates become available. (I have 5 redundant setups if something goes awry.)

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Preview Build Discussion / Re: Bug - Video windows do not close (Last version OK for me 1 99 47 23960)

« Last post by MarcoDiGenova on May 05, 2026, 02:34:40 PM »

I use the skin Modern Winamp and the Video Windows is not on the same screen than the "main" winamp windows (don't know if it's important)

The only "tune" is  a gen_ml.ini files from Winamp / Plugin  to WACUP / Plugi0n in order to have Smart Views.

I linked a screen shoot of the Video Préférences as requested...