Originally Posted By: Goldy
Hi Simon.

Just Upgraided to 2021.

1. The issue with the Open processes came back (Every time I open BIAB song - another processes is open. when I close - the process stay open. closing BIAB - all processes stay open.

2. Playing a song (double click) - when it open, I hear king of "Knak" or "Bzz" (That's happens only if i open a song. while opening BIAB without a song it's OK)?

3. Push the play button - the song runing, but no sound at all.

4. Push the play button without a song - OK.

5. Some songs running fine some time, and some time don't (No sound).

6. My feeling is that opening a song take much longer than 2020.

7. I upgraded to 2021 - "run as administrator", and didn't touch any of the definition yet, so it should be like before.

Hope it helps.


If you disconnect the Fireface and only use your internal sound, do the processes stay open? You'll probably have to switch driver type to WAS or MME for that.

How about if you open BIAB without opening a song, then open a song from File > Open?


Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
The Boot Log should be visible in Help, Utilities, Display Log Text File of Yellow/Green Messages

Note that this file is visible on my system even though I do NOT have that checkbox checked. I can see the boot time, normally around 5 seconds on my system, any time I like. I assume, though I have not tested it, that the Boot Log referred to here would be more extensive.


The boot log is a different file than the one you're referencing. The boot log is a file named bootuplog.txt, and when you select the option to have BB create a bootlog it'll automatically open the log file for you when you run BB.

Originally Posted By: MusicStudent
Personally, I am pretty confident that the practice of double clicking on file names while BIAB is already open will cause multiple BIAB openings. I just tested and confirmed. This is despite checking or not checking the box in preferences that supposedly enables this feature. Also, I am confident that multiple occurrences of BIAB will play havoc with audio drivers. So I predict that if Goldy stops this workflow things will go back to normal.

So for me the only question which remains is, assuming this practice was done in both BIAB 2020 and BIAB 2021, why did BIAB 2020 not suffer from this same behavior in which case Goldy would have seen this problem in the past. Best I recall the opening of multiple occurrences of BIAB in this manner has always been there.

Look forward to the resolution of this issue.

Dan


Dan, are you running from external or internal, or split install? For me, when I double click on a sgu/mgu in Explorer it'll open BIAB the first time, but subsequently it'll open in the same bbw64 process. I personally just opened half a dozen files sequentially by double clicking them in Explorer, and there is still only one process related to BIAB - my thought is that on your computer the files are associated with a different bbw executable than the one you're running initially, or perhaps mgu and sgu are associated to different exe's.

Try this:

Open Band-in-a-Box by right clicking on your program shortcut and selecting "run as administrator".

Go to File - File Utilities - Remove File Associations.

Close and re-open Band-in-a-Box (not as administrator).
Go to File - File Utilities - Associate File Types.
Minimize (don't close) Band-in-a-Box, double-click on a song file in Explorer. See if it opens a secondary process.

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