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Could somebody confirm please?
Enter any song name in the Find Titles option of the Style Picker, then double-click on any of the items listed.
Do you get a _CRYSTAL.STY popup message in the lower right corner of the screen?
It does this for me in the 2025 version also.

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Confirmed in BIAB 2026 over here.

FWIW, I tested in my 2022 BIAB and it does not do that. (Kinda expected that or it would have been a known issue long ago).

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I can verify. The same thing happens here with 2026.


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Interesting,

_CRYSTAL.STY is not in my BB:\Styles folder yet it shows up in the style picker when I enter _CRYSTAL.STY in the filter string.

&Memo: Slow 12/8 classic country Style with background pedal steel. Also includes Electric Bass, Fingerpicking & Strummed Acoustic Guitar RealTracks and Nashville128 RealDrums. T=55-90 -Examples: Make The World Go Away, Crazy, Genre "Intensity" Score=55/100
_CRYSTAL.STY. Country 12/8 Ballad w/ Pedal Steel
All RealTracks. Quintet. Tempo=65 (55-95)
Instruments: El.Bass, Ac.Guitar, Ac.Guitar, PedalSteel, Drums
RD: Nashville128^01-a:Sidestick, Hihat , b:Snare, Ride :Brian Fullen
RT533: Bass, Electric, 12-8 Crystal Sw 065 , Byron House
RT526: Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Hank Sw 065 , Jason Roller
RT529: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Hank Sw 065 , Jason Roller
** N/A ** RT627: Pedal Steel, Background 12-8 Crystal Sw 065 , Steve Hinson

I'm a rookie at these styles, so I'm just posting this in case it is in any way significant to the diagnosis of the issue.

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Originally Posted by BluegrassPicker
Interesting,

_CRYSTAL.STY is not in my BB:\Styles folder yet it shows up in the style picker when I enter _CRYSTAL.STY in the filter string.

&Memo: Slow 12/8 classic country Style with background pedal steel. Also includes Electric Bass, Fingerpicking & Strummed Acoustic Guitar RealTracks and Nashville128 RealDrums. T=55-90 -Examples: Make The World Go Away, Crazy, Genre "Intensity" Score=55/100
_CRYSTAL.STY. Country 12/8 Ballad w/ Pedal Steel
All RealTracks. Quintet. Tempo=65 (55-95)
Instruments: El.Bass, Ac.Guitar, Ac.Guitar, PedalSteel, Drums
RD: Nashville128^01-a:Sidestick, Hihat , b:Snare, Ride :Brian Fullen
RT533: Bass, Electric, 12-8 Crystal Sw 065 , Byron House
RT526: Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Hank Sw 065 , Jason Roller
RT529: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Hank Sw 065 , Jason Roller
** N/A ** RT627: Pedal Steel, Background 12-8 Crystal Sw 065 , Steve Hinson

I'm a rookie at these styles, so I'm just posting this in case it is in any way significant to the diagnosis of the issue.

Bluegrass Picker: I DO have it in my BB\styles folder and it looks like it dates from February 2009 and is listed as a Misc set.

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Agreed. It is a perplexing message. It doesn't make any sense to me. I wonder if it is 'hard-coded' somehow?
From further testing I do know it's been around for two major releases so far.


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When you display the Log Text File does it give you any more details that are not in the popup message?


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I just did a search in my BB directory for FlashMessageLog.txt and found 2 of them.
One was dated 1/14/2026, which is today but the other one was dated 3/18/2025 and the file name was FlashMessageLog (Crystal Style).txt

I do remember looking at this problem back at that time so there might be an older post by me dated around that time period either because I ran into the same problem or someone back then posted about the same problem. I went and looked at all my posts but could not find anything that mentioned the problem around that time.

Here is the saved log message from 3/18/2025 and it looks the same as what AudioTrack is seeing now:

Running Windows Notepad.exe to display file C:\bb\Data\Logs\FlashMessageLog.txt [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:21:16 PM]
_CRYSTAL.STY [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:20:48 PM]
Running Windows Notepad.exe to display file C:\bb\Data\Logs\FlashMessageLog.txt [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:20:12 PM]
Bootup was optimal, set to fast [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM]
Bootup time in milliseconds =6,640 [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM]
Time to scan unknown VST plugins = 1 ms [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM]
Time to scan known VST plugins = 21 ms [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM]
Time to scan AU plugins = 0 ms [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM]
Time to scan ALL plugins = 22 ms [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM]
Time to Count Plugins in ms =161. Plugins counted=58 [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:55 PM]
Scanning for plugins... [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:19:54 PM]
**** New Session started at : 3/18/2025 7:19:54 PM

Very Strange!

I too get the mysterious popup each time also.

This needs to be referred to the Developers.

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I double clicked song titles 6 times and go this.

Notice the date difference between the one back in March of 2025 and the one today.

March:

_CRYSTAL.STY [2025.1128.0, 3/18/2025 7:20:48 PM]

Today

_CRYSTAL.STY [2026.1220.0, 1/14/2026 4:01:52 PM]
_CRYSTAL.STY [2026.1220.0, 1/14/2026 4:01:51 PM]
_CRYSTAL.STY [2026.1220.0, 1/14/2026 4:01:50 PM]
_CRYSTAL.STY [2026.1220.0, 1/14/2026 4:01:48 PM]
_CRYSTAL.STY [2026.1220.0, 1/14/2026 4:01:43 PM]
_CRYSTAL.STY [2026.1220.0, 1/14/2026 4:01:16 PM]

Cant figure out what 2025.1128.0, is or what 2026.1220.0, is.


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Thanks, the message is meaningless and we'll remove it.


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Thanks Andrew. Had me going around in circles.


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