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The imports were overhauled and moved from WinForm to WPF, because of that they have not yet been re-localized. This will be corrected before we release the final version.

@Xpendable What operating system and version are you running?

How were you doing the import that you didn't see the option?

I would check your image priority settings and make sure the image type you want to display is checked for the image group you are displaying in LaunchBox. The options I am referring to are in the "Media" group of the options menu listed as "{Image Group} Priorities" where {Image Group} is the name of the image group in question.

Sorry to hear you are having issues with your license @RICKY WISE. I currently do not handle licensing at all. We keep access to that information very limited for security reasons. As Dos stated, emailing the support email is the best way to get this resolved. The email is monitored pretty closely/regularly so you should hear back within a day or two.

I would look in your service tab of the Task Manager. Make sure Nahimic isn't running. Realtek is pretty notorious for running with that service up. It tends to cause issues with performance and potential tearing in the actual render of everything.

What video playback engine are you using? VLC is recommended. Though that would only really affect video playback and have no real affect on the menu navigation responsiveness. When's the last time you've updated your video drivers? Also if you anything running/using a service called "Nahimic" (used by a lot of audio driver tools) that is known to cause some of the issues you are seeing as well.

Yes that is the button I was referring to. No there is not a way to change it en masse, you have to edit each playlist individually.

Apologies you feel this way. Typically BitBucket is better place to report errors as it easier to see them then on the forums. First step to resolve this would be to go ahead and run the installer again, just to rule out something isn't corrupt in your install. Second is to make sure you don't have any folder set to read only. Right now that error report reads like an IO issue reading/writing to a location. Also if you have plugins, I would remove them just to rule it out as a possibility.

The most common reasons for visible slow downs are either there is image caching occurring or video drivers aren't updated properly. In large libraries auto-generated playlists tend to cause a pretty large increase in start up times as well. If the auto-gen playlist is pretty much "complete" you can speed up the startup by unchecking the auto generate check box and reverting it to a manual list.

Since 10.8, release early January of 2020

Not seen this one before. Do you have any plugin's running?

BigBoxSettings.xml. Field you are looking for is <LastPlatform>

I may be understanding you incorrectly, if so I apologize. Games USED to have a field to them called "Video Path" which was where the game video (that gets displayed in LaunchBox/BigBox) was located. This has since been removed because LaunchBox now supports multiple videos much like it does images. Audit tool now has a "Videos" column that tells you how many videos are associated to the game in question. Video URL is a NEWER field introduced that is meant to be a link to a YouTube (or similar service) page that has a video of the game in question. The audit tool was changed to accommodate BOTH of those changes, so you MAY not be seeing what you would have seen in previous versions.

Box - Front typically is what is used. You will have holes in your artwork if you have a lot of games that don't match up to the Games DB but that image type will get you closest to what you are asking for. If you are premium the main 3 image types I would consider grabbing are: Box - Front Screenshot - Gameplay Clear Logo (if you DON'T use a text list view in Big Box, if you prefer text view can skip this one)

This error isn't related to your library data. Your GamesDB file is corrupted. Force a refresh of the GamesDB and it should correct this.

Yeah, that change has already been made in our code base and will be corrected in the next release.

The way @JoeViking245 posted would work as well but you need to get the parent of that location (or should) because any calls like that will direct you to the \\LaunchBox\Core\ folder and you want to start the Path.Combine at the \\LaunchBox\ level.

Should be able to do something similar to the below to get your plugin folder. Replace "PluginName" with the name of your plugin folder. Path.Combine(Directory.GetParent(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory()).FullName, "Plugins", "PluginName")

There any particular reason you are looking in the system folder instead of your plugin folder for the youtube-dl.exe file?

1. The option I suggest would do this without breaking any current features 2. Themes can already utilize their own unique clear logos rendering this point moot 3. Again themes have full control over which clear logo to display and the ones you are seeing only occur when the item in question has no options in a view that is designed solely for clear logos, this feature is to help people that are new be able to utilize the views as designed (with clear logos) with minimal interaction and time investment overhead (something we feel is a great design approach) The work around I offered provides all the options you are asking for. If you are interested in having an option to NOT use the fallback logos the best approach to get this resolved is to create a BitBucket ticket so we can see how much of our community shares your views on the matter so that we can properly place it in the priority list.

I don't foresee any changes related to this logic happening any time soon. If we do add anything it would be an option NOT to use the fallback values instead of creating yet another view. In the meantime an easy work around would be to simply use an online tool that generates text images in various fonts, and then save them as your clear logo for that platform/playlist/category, giving you the best of both of worlds. You have a clear logo that is text, AND you can ensure the font and colors mesh well with your theme of choice.

This issue isn't affecting everyone, next beta release we have increased the logging surrounding this process to try and figure out what would cause this so that we can correct.

Ah I think some of the confusion was the terms being used. I was running with the following terminology in mind: Metadata - The text data related to the game (notes, publisher, etc) Media - The artwork for the game You are right, when deleting via the methods you are using you will want to run the clean up media tool after to ensure that all media items are removed.

Deleting a game removes the data from the title and any metadata associated. You will be asked if you want to delete the artwork and media associated to it and can choose yes or no. If you have the option enabled in Options you will also be prompted as to whether or not you want to delete the actual ROM file when deleting a game.