In 2014 when I was trying to assist Fiddler2007 with a problem (original thread here), I accidentally discovered that when a corrupted or problematic BIAB SGU/MGU file was...

  • opened in Realband

  • saved with a new file name in SGU/MGU format using Realband

...this new file, when opened in BIAB often then worked correctly. Over the years, a number of us on these forums have now recommended this solution and in many cases, it has solved the problem that the user was experiencing.

Thinking about this, it seems that RB must strip away some file settings when it loads the file created in BIAB. Then, when the file is saved using Realband, it creates a songfile that no longer contains the problematic settings.

Because RB is exclusive to Windows, any Mac users don't get the option to use this technique in an attempt to repair songfiles that don't behave properly.

This leads me to make the following suggestion...

Can an option be added to BIAB (Win and Mac) that removes all the settings from a songfile that RB does not load? This could prove to be very useful for songfile repair.

Regards,
Noel

MY SONGS...
Audiophile BIAB 2025