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With the recent features touching game boxes and images I figured I'd bump an old pet peeve of mine, which is I'd love the ability to change the sorting order images are served in when browsing a game entry. Right now they seem to be loaded pretty much at random, no matter which order you added them in first. This makes it pretty much impossible to, for example, use the "Screenshots - Gameplay" tag to show a chronological order timeline of a game's levels or story bits, or to create any sort of situation where the order of images makes sense, such as showing images pertaining to different games in a series that share the same entry (think Mass Effect Legendary Edition or the Crash Nsane Trilogy) in the correct order when browsing them later. Ideally this would include a sorting menu where you can manually sort the images through the UI itself, but even just a dropdown "Sort by" in the media section would suffice, and a user would just need to make sure to name the files correctly (1, 2, 3 etc) or use the file's EXIF to determine its position in the list.
I know this isn't a very requested improvement but I think a lot of people would actually welcome it despite not having bothered to ask!
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49 minutes ago, faeran said:
Yes, this is essentially how it works, which allowed users to play a certain track while still navigating around LaunchBox, but still allowing an auto-play option for users just wanting to hear music on games they are currently selecting.
It's good to know that you are wanting to use LaunchBox as more of a jukebox experience. I know the manual play option was added for your specific usecase, but can see how it's not as desirable for you. We may review it to see if we can shore it up sometime in the future, but no guarantee on when that could be.
Thanks for considering my use case, being this open to creative use of the software is what makes this community and Launchbox so great. Any improvement to this would be great, although it's already functional. I personally use Launchbox as a "played games diary" and hearing the soundtrack when navigating my collection instantly brings back memories and makes me want to leave it running for a bit while I do something else. Thanks for the quick reply anyway.
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This is true, thanks for the reply. This does change the behavior quite a bit though. Now every time I click on a game the music doesn't play, also if I click on another game then pause the music, when I hit play it will play the music from the original game and not the new one. The behavior from the auto-play option is much more desirable, and the fact that I have to turn it off to use the program as a "jukebox" of sorts is counter-intuitive and leads to a clunkier experience...just my two cents here on how I would change it. Still, at least now I know how to do what I want now, thanks.
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I'd like to keep music playing when the window is not in focus.
It seems like there used to be support for this:
The proposed solution doesn't seem to work anymore. Is there any way to keep the music playing after you click away from the LB window?
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It especially happens when viewing the "add images" tab of the game edit screen. It's very noticeable, the mouse goes from smooth to nearly unusable and laggy for as long as the window is visible on screen. It's very ugly and distracting. If I run the program on a 60Hz screen, the issue goes away. This didn't use to happen until recently. I can post a video of it happening if necessary for troubleshooting, but really you just have to picture what your mouse would look like if the screen was running at 15Hz, and that's it.
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On 9/27/2018 at 5:32 PM, Jason Carr said:
@nrage If you play it manually with the play button, the songs should keep playing. They only stop when auto-played.
@Jason Carr This doesn't seem to work anymore. Is there any way to keep the music playing after the window loses focus? If anything else, I'd love to be able to have the music playing while I browse the game pictures/media.
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Just now, faeran said:
You always have the option to run an update manually overtop your current install, although you should not do this while LaunchBox is open.
I'm wondering, if you can restart LaunchBox, are you still seeing issues?
Restarting did not fix the issue at all, unless it was with internet unplugged. I posted the solution in my last comment, it was indeed a buggy pop up.
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Ok I managed to fix this. It was indeed the update prompt, because launching without an internet connection fixed it. I tried a couple of things, it ended up being my monitor resolution/aspect ratio (I have an ultrawide 1080p monitor). I set the resolution to 1920x1080 and the update window was half visible on the right corner of the screen, so I was able to click "yes" to the update popup.
Case closed, maybe get this checked before rolling out the new version because really there was no other way around it (no "move window" or keyboard shortcut trickery that I could find, and the pop up doesn't show up in ALT+TAB or Start + Tab).
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I opened LB today and the window was completely not interactable, like if there was a prompt somewhere I had to click first (Windows gives me the sound cue that I should close the prompt, probably the one for the update? but there is no prompt, not even off screen).
I can't fix this on my end because it's completely stuck. Any way to bring up the prompt so that I can start the update? At least, I think that's the issue.
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52 minutes ago, C-Beats said:
11.17 beta 1 the loading logic has been altered a bit and your bad characters shouldn't stop the load process. Let me know if you still have issues starting up LaunchBox in that version (preferably in the 11.17 beta testing thread).
Sadly I'm not enrolled in the beta (LB is very time consuming to maintain for me so I didn't want to risk anything glitching out - this after I had a bad experience with XMLs losing data one or two years ago..so I didn't get into the beta ?) (btw at the time the issue turned out to be something mostly on my end, but I still got very burned out by the troubleshooting)
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@GTi as a temporary solution waiting for an update I could fix the file for you and send it back. I will simply delete the "bad" character, it probably is an emoji somewhere. If you don't need it right now I would suggest waiting for the official fix obviously.
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I PMed you. Check line 31872. It's the only instance of an illegal character in the file. Stackoverflow seems to have a few mentions of this causing issues with XMLs so you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a workaround.
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I'll add that for obvious reasons the suggested fix of restoring a backup will not work for this issue, so any user not able to edit xml files will not be able to fix this.
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Okay so, a couple more details.
This is the error.
Comparing the file with the one before the update shows no difference in a text editor.
The line in question contains the value: 
I think this character is not okay to be parsed under the new XML parsing system that was introduced in this version, hence the issue, which will occur for all users who have similar characters in any of their entries.
Deleting the unsupported character fixes the issue, and I'm able to load. It probably is just a case of catching the exception in the parsing process.
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I just updated to 11.6. After install, the launch fails due to a corrupt platform .xml (in my case, it was Windows).
I will try to use an xml backup hoping that was the only issue, and report back.
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Ok so I've been trying the app for a bit now, I'm a little confused by one thing..the "export to android" option was removed some time last year from the desktop app, so how do we transfer the setup from desktop to android?
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Nice to see this is still going despite everything. I'm waiting for the email to start testing.
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I'm a bit sad that my suggestion on bitbucket wasn't here, but I appreciate the development, I love Launchbox and I think it's in a very nice spot right now.
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So no one ever answered to this thread, but I have to bump this really, I really wish there was a way to sort the images. Not just the type, also the images themselves should be sorted based on their name or some other criteria. Right now they are loaded randomly and there is no way to actually keep them in check. There also seems to be a cap in the number of images that are shown, so if you have a game with 200+ images they just don't show up after a while, which is a bummer, I wish at least when viewing them in bigbox that this didn't happen.
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Index was outside the bounds of the array. App: LaunchBox Version: 10.14 Type: System.IndexOutOfRangeException Site: Void button1_Click(System.Object, System.EventArgs) Source: YoutubeScraper at YoutubeScraper.Form1.button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) Recent Log: 4:47:36 PM ExceptionBroken again in May 2020. Used to work until last week.
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I like giving my favorite titles a music theme to play when I interact with them, and I often wish I could click on a game and hear the soundtrack while scrolling through the images on the side or Alt+Tabbing to somewhere else on my PC. Sadly, the moment you click anywhere else on the screen, the music pauses. I'd love to have a little toggle or an option to have the music keep playing after I click away, it'd make it so cool to just browse through my collection and hear my favorite soundtracks even if I open up a browser window in the meantime. I have videos for the BigBox setup, so music is kinda the start of my Launchbox collection for when I use it to browse through my games.
Edit: at the very least the music should keep playing if we click on pictures from the selected games, so that we could browse through screenshots and fanart with the music in the background..I don't understand how this is not a thing yet!
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@Retro808 @Jason Carr Ok, after a few weeks of testing I can say with 100% certainty that I've fixed the problem, and I'm pretty sure I know what it was. As some of you have suggested, the culprit was Google Drive: I originally dismissed that option, because I had a pretty good idea of what the internal file structure of my data folder was and it hadn't changed much for months, as far as I could see; I always had those xml files with the [conflict] tag, but since they hadn't been causing any issues for months or even years, I figured Launchbox was simply ignoring them (because they had the wrong name, why read "windows[conflict].xml" when "windows.xml" is already there as expected). As it turns out (and I don't know if this is something new Jason introduced with 9.10), Launchbox is now VERY confused by the presence of those files. First, the problems were only there for platforms with conflict files in the data folder. As for the duplication issue, it appears LB was reading the custom fields from the xml array in the conflict files AS WELL as in the regular file, but when closing the program, it was probably writing back the fields to one file only, thus completely messing it up and multiplying the lines. I guess the read happened from one file or the other at random, which caused the shifting number of duplications. As for the videos disappearing, I guess that when adding videos LB was committing the changes to the wrong file, or not committing them at all due to the conflict being there. These two are only my guesses based on outside observation, what's 100% sure is that by going back to an older backup of the data files without the duplication, and then deleting the conflict files, the issue went completely away and hasn't returned.
So, my issue has been fixed. What I suggest is either discourage using Google Drive as the main directory for Launchbox (at this moment in time, the Google Drive symbol appears on the description page for LB on the website), or if possible writing the xml parsing code in a way that simply ignores duplicated platform files, or specifically platform files with "[conflict]" in the name, as at this moment in time LB seems to basically merge the two data structures together at launch and then go crazy when figuring out what or where to commit changes. I hope this proves useful and avoids the same happens to other users in the future (as it was pretty dishearting for me).
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23 hours ago, Retro808 said:
Sounds to me like your old launchbox build got corrupted and is the culprit.
New install plus fresh data = no issue.
New install plus copying over old data = issue.
I would continue to test the fresh install adding games and editing data to see if it stays issue free or does not.
@Retro808 I'll try that and report back.
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Okay so, I had already tried my backup from 9.8 and it didn't have the duplication bug, but it did have the video deletion bug. I tried a fresh install of the 9.10 version and then adding the same games that were having problems in the same way, but the bug didn't happen. I then tried adding my whole data folder to the new install and the bug wasn't there, at least that I could see. I added the whole images folder and the bug wasn't there. Same goes for my videos and music folders. Basically there has to be something that has gone wrong in my current folder, and I don't know what. I could simply do a fresh install etc, but
A) would this work? @Jason Carr which folders do I need to move to the new install to have a perfect 1:1 copy of the old database + media?
B) This doesn't solve the issues with my current bug, because if it happens again, we're back to square one. Wouldn't it be better to solve the problem once and for all by finding the culprit? I mean, I've had my library basically vandalized, videos disappearing, changes not saving, games disappearing, information duplicating..all in one go. This is pretty destructive, it really should be investigated..
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I only have 2 requests for Launchbox going forward and every time I mention them I fail to get traction, but I'll try again =\
1) Ability to sort the images, or have them displayed in a specific order in the game-details section. Sorting by date modified etc. I tend to add the screenshots of the game I play and they all show up shuffled, it's a shame because it would be so cool to be able to go back to a game campaign and relive it in order.
2) Let the music keep playing while viewing these images fullscreen: currently if you want the music to keep playing, you need to disable auto-play, if you don't the music stops the moment you open an image..this is again a shame because it would be very cool to be able to browse the aforementioned screenshot diary while the music is playing without having to turn off auto-play.
I don't know where to start writing plugins for LB, but if someone thinks this would be doable with a custom plugin, let me know down here and I'll look into it because this has been bugging me for years!