A few B71 annoyances

[madjo]

I just installed QCD B71. and there are a few annoyances, which I have trouble to cope with.

For one thing the "folder mirroring" is gone. We'll have to wait for a plugin for that. It is sad, but okay.

Another thing is, I have a logitech multimedia keyboard. And in previous versions of QCD it only registered the movement of the volumebuttons, when I had QCD active, but when QCD was playing in the background, it would ignore the volume buttons.
Now in B71, it registers the volume buttons, regardless of the state of QCD (active or on the background), that is just plain irritating to me.

One other thing is, that it created a new folder in my "Application Data" folder called "Quintessential Player" while there was also a "QCD Player" folder, which was used by all the other versions (as far as I know it though, the last version I installed was 4.11). Now I had to set up either the player to look in the last folder, or copy the contents of the first folder to the last one, and re-setup the whole thing.

I'm seriously thinking of downgrading, just for the sake of these issues.

[Paul]

I'm seriously thinking of downgrading, just for the sake of these issues.
The point of the beta's is to bring up these issues, and thanks for doing so. But it is wrong to think that the betas are the 'latest QCD version'. So there is no sense in getting annoyed or resorting to downgrading, as 4.11 is the latest release.

[acozz]

For the volume key thing, I think the new keyboard hooks should be an option.

For the third thing, just reset everything up and you'll never have to do it again.

[madjo]

So there is no sense in getting annoyed or resorting to downgrading, as 4.11 is the latest release.
Well, I'll keep it up for now :)

It was just the initial feeling. should have thought more before reacting...

[Paul]

Forgot to mention, to stop QCD from intercepting the volume keys, delete 'QCDmmkb.dll' from the QCD install folder.

[madjo]

thanks :-)

I have renamed the file... don't like deleting files ;-)

[madjo]

Some other quirks just popped up. I like listening to web radio.. especially Soma FM, but with build 71, QCD just crashes everytime a new song loads, or even upon loading the stream... It seems to crash when I move the mouse, while it is loading the new song, though that can hardly be the cause of this, can't it?
Upon loading the stream, my pc seems to slow down, to an almost stop, while QCD is buffering.

Although this could have to do with the fact that I use the crossfading plugin, previous versions of QCD didn't exhibit this behaviour.

On a side note, other radiostations don't seem to have the crashing program, but it does have the slowing problem upon buffering. (radioseven.se for one of them)


as far as I know, both soma fm and radio seven are mp3-streams.
I haven't tried any wma-streams yet.

[Paul]

Which mp3 input plugin are you using?
And what skin are you using?

[madjo]

I use the MAD plugin and skin: chameleo v1.4

sorry, that I seem to have so much trouble :-)
btw, I do love QCD. I think it is one of the best audio players around.

Perhaps it is just me, and asking too much of my system, that makes it crash :-) I will check if there could also be another explanation for the mystery crashes, because now I have soma fm running, and it doesn't seem to crash at the moment.

[jawpr]

I use the MAD plugin and skin: chameleo v1.4

sorry, that I seem to have so much trouble :-)
btw, I do love QCD. I think it is one of the best audio players around.

Perhaps it is just me, and asking too much of my system, that makes it crash :-) I will check if there could also be another explanation for the mystery crashes, because now I have soma fm running, and it doesn't seem to crash at the moment.


Do you have Mad set at 16 or 24 bit? Have you tried one of the other input plugs?

[madjo]

I don't know what it is... Mad was configured at 32 bits and normal (stereo)

when using the Quinnware mp3 plugin I no longer have that problem :-)

[jawpr]

I don't know what it is... Mad was configured at 32 bits and normal (stereo)

when using the Quinnware mp3 plugin I no longer have that problem :-)


Why don't you try setting the mad plug-in to 16 bit and see if that works? I think that is what the QCD mp3 plug-in uses.

[madjo]

I have also just upgraded to b72 :-) let's see how that works out ;-) (upto now no problems spotted)

if you want, I can also install b71 next to it, to see if the problem was indeed caused by the mad plugin...

[jawpr]

I have also just upgraded to b72 :-) let's see how that works out ;-) (upto now no problems spotted)

if you want, I can also install b71 next to it, to see if the problem was indeed caused by the mad plugin...



I don't think Mad is going to work set at 32 bit. I have got it to work a few times set at 24 bit but not at 32 bit using the asio plug-in. I recently installed the Winamp plug-in manager and downloaded the asio madbundle and extracted the asio.dll and put it in a Winamp folder inside the qcd plug-in folder and now the mad plug-in set at 24 bit using asio output plug-in works great

[madjo]

with ordinary mp3's I had little or no problems with mad... but I also didn't really notice any difference between the quinnware plugin and Mad... :-)