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So it seems that even though music was intended to be part of their paid service, it has been downloadable by free members for a while. We got the go ahead to make changes on their server to make music available for free users in LaunchBox moving forward. You'll see it appear again, possibly sometime today or tomorrow.

If you are launching games in LaunchBox, there's an option that will minimize LaunchBox upon game launch, and restore it after you exit the emulator. The options are under General. This could potentially help this issue. Another thing to note, depending on how you set up MAME in LaunchBox, you could have a Running Script that could be accidentally launching multiple instances of MAME. Check under Tools > Manage > Emulators. Enter into your MAME emulator and check your Running Script. It's essentially a script that will press the space bar 3 times after 10 seconds. But if your computer takes more than 10 seconds to launch a game, and you are waiting in LaunchBox for it to launch, it ends up pressing space 3 times while in LaunchBox, which ends up opening more instances of MAME. If this is the case, you can just delete the entire script.

Losing focus to Big Box usually means there's another application pulling focus away that you may not be aware of. I've seen users get programs like Windows Focus Logger to help deduce the process that's pulling focus away so you can deal with it. I've also seen AHK scripts, and even a plugin, that can bandaid over the issue and force Big Box to regain focus. Both can potentially help your situation out. Here's some threads that you could read about it:

From a user's perspective, yes. The TransitionPresent loads the Video group (amongst other things), so in LaunchBox you would just need to go into Tools > Options > Video Priorities, and make sure you have the video type you want to see selected and moved to the top of the list. From a theme designer perspective, it's not possible to force a specific type to override a user's settings.

Hi @Rollie. Thanks for your interest. For this particular role, we are definitely looking for a more experienced candidate that can hit the ground running. However, definitely send us your resume and any examples of your work so we can keep you in mind for this, and any future roles.

Unfortunately, no. It's a separate thing to TransitionPresenter, which is what controls all the logic of the transitions. You could create your own animations with XAML, or you could create a plugin to house transition logic.

cool, glad it worked. Based on what you crossed out, sounds like you could have also just deleted the TransitionPresenter from the code, instead of adding the FallbackToDefault property.

Okay, so if you don't want FlowVideo to fall back to your default Video Priority settings then add the property: FallbackToDefault="False" You should switch back the PlayVideo property to True.

I do believe that theme has some issues like that. Are you able to change to the default theme and see if you are still having the same issue?

Hi @Old School. Is this happening with the default Big Box theme?

The TransitionPresenter used there is designed to adhere to a user's Video Priority settings. This can be found in LaunchBox under Tools > Options > Video Priorities. You can make it so theme videos are prioritized over video snaps, but that would end up being a global setting and apply to all programs, themes, views... etc. There is one way you can override this with xaml, but you will have to use flow video for this. Something like: <coverFlow:FlowVideo DataContext="{Binding ActiveGame}" VideoType="Theme Video" PlayVideo="True" Grid.ColumnSpan="7" Grid.RowSpan="8" /> There's more properties with regards to FlowVideo that you can play around with in the Documentation.pdf file which is located inside of your LaunchBox\Themes folder.

Beta 7 is out, which should smooth out the remaining issues we were seeing with the new EmuMovies API.

Curious if anyone has been able to confirm whether this is not happening in 12.9 under the same conditions.

Couple things I noticed. You don't need any of those Rows or Column Definitions, but you can leave the grid, and you forgot to capitalize "Uniform" within your stretch property (not sure if it matters, but worth a shot).

Thanks @e2zippo. Yes, @C-Beats is correct (and beat me to it).

We found the issue and it should be fixed. We are currently updating the metadata (which takes about an hour or two), after which changes should be reflected in LaunchBox. Thanks for letting us know.

This issue seems off-topic for this thread. I'd recommend heading over to this topic with any specific examples you may have, which could help track down what's going on:

Thanks for the reports. We will take a look at the server and see what's up.

There are current discussions going on between us and EmuMovies. There will be a more detailed post about this before the end of the day.

Yes, there are known issues with EmuMovies that's being worked through. I would refer to either of these posts for more information:

There are current discussions going on between us and EmuMovies. There will be a more detailed post about this before the end of the day.

There are current discussions going on between us and EmuMovies. There will be a more detailed post about this before the end of the day.

If you delete a Category, all platforms and playlists will remain and move to the root. If you delete a Platform, all games inside get removed from your LaunchBox library, you get an option to delete your media if you'd like. If you delete a Playlist, all games and media are kept. None of these options will delete your ROMs.

They definitely shouldn't be removed. However, I have seen instances where the same alternate name was added twice. So make sure that the removal isn't to try and remove a duplicate entry before denying it.