LogicalEgo

You can do that now but I think you mean auto updating the metadata. I am not to sure if the star ratings auto update or you need to import new meta every so often.

Your config looks fine, xaudio is almost 99% of the time the default setting you want to use. I would try dsound and see what results you get. Is your PC using a soundcard or does your motherboard have onboard audio? Make sure you have the latest drivers for your graphics and sound cards.

The new features are such a nice addition and should finally get some people off the fence and over to LaunchBox.

Integrated would be my personal preference. Every theme would benefit.

Small update on the what is going on. @Jason Carr has noticed some video stability issues with the video plug in being used for random video playback and cross fading. I will be working on a update that will be removing the plug in and instead using the default video engine for BigBox. The positive out of all of this is that Jason wants these features to instead be a option internally supported by BigBox and not by a plugin. I will also be removing the multiple versions of the theme. Rather than six downloads! Which is a nightmare to update I will be dropping the fanart versions and mixed fanart video options and instead only support video background playback by default. There will be two versions now, my personal edit and the default option. Stay tuned for the updates!

Fantastic, I will get started on the changes.

Personally I have zero issue with this but we would have to redo the themes, not that big of a deal. We will lose the ability for multiple video playback and cross fading but if you want to add those features into BigBox I would love that.

Odd, here is mine. That view does support background video but the view before it with the text list for titles does not. Go into Launchbox, options, images, background priorities and uncheck clear logo.

I will continue to hold off before updating. The version I am using now is decently stable among other issues.

You are running the latest plugin correct? The older, which mine still uses does have an issue with attract mode. I am still waiting on the final version, or close to before updating my themes.

Can you take a screenshot of the view you are talking about, there are only a few default view's that can not be changed due to how BigBox works.

I like these

Personally I am a huge fan of the Seag Saturn.

1. Make sure to set your background fade set to 0% in options, view. 2. It should already be like that as the default, which view are you using?

Small world, I am the guy who basically rebuilt Aeon Nox for LB/BB.

Stop being a weird beard

Alie always with the "request"

If it isn't broke don't fix it.

Speaking from 3+ years ago and lots of beers, if memory serves me correctly I saw slow boot up times (expected but not 45+ seconds) and janky performance across multiple programs (not expected). So I turned it back on and walked away. The moral of all this is that it's on by default most of the times, and if you are powering down your PC every night and not actually rebooting, expect things to slow down over time.

I believe you but speaking from experience my PC went kind of nuts with it off, so its on now for good.

Yes and no, on that page under Tip, "Fast Startup requires that Hibernate be enabled" is what I am referring to. If you disable hibernate completely then you are not using Fast Startup on your setup. Fast Startup is most often enabled by default on a fresh install of Windows 8.1 or 10.

FYI, this is what I am talking about. https://www.howtogeek.com/243901/the-pros-and-cons-of-windows-10s-fast-startup-mode/

Its not a hibernate per say, its a specific feature built into Windows 10. I turned it off and saw very slow boot up times even on SSD and also things started to freak out.

Something you could do to work around this is create a symlink from your background/music folder and drop it as the platform or game name, takes up less than 1k. I never tried it but worth a shot, it should work in theory. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

I just wanted to chime in, if you are running Windows 10, (I assume) powering down your PC everynight actually does not fully power down the machine, it places windows 10 is a very deep hibernation giving a false sense of shutdown so that when you power back on (wake up) Windows 10 boots quickly. Unless you turn this feature off (don't, things get weird) make sure you are rebooting once a week to free up system processes.