Yesterday I installed Windows 7 on my machine. I then installed EJ to its own folder ie. c:ejukebox
Flash popped up to install via EJ successfully.
When I hit the 'update datbase' button in config
I was greeted by a series of dependency errors ie.


While I presume this is some netframework thing, I was surprised there was no dependency check done upon install. This is a bad first time user experience.

Can you tell me which .net version package (or otherwise) EJ is expecting to be in place? I don't want to trial and error at the moment as I'm trying to keep this machine lean and mean?

64 bit or 32bit windows7?
does it only happen when you click that Update Database button?

in this installer i have added that file. if the file already exists it will not replace it but it will register it.
please try this out and let me know if it fixes it.

Sorry win7 x32

I'll give the new installer a go.

any luck?

Ok, that seemed to have take care of that error and I can add files successfully.

Next issue on fresh install:
White 'now playing' album screen:

This is presently set up using the internal Player.

When I use winamp I get 'could not sync':

but my directory is definitely set correctly in the ini


I love new os'es

ok great i will add that file to the full installer.

does the white square go away?

does it open winamp automatically when you check 'use winamp'?
should work if you start winamp once and then check that option while winamp is already running.

The white square has not disappeared after many reboots and restarts. The now playing area does display 'first time album cover lookup' when it tries.

As for Winamp, it launches successfully, but I still get that message.

(I'm still running 'unregistered', would that play into any of this somehow?)

You installed to C:EJukebox?

so the white square doesn't go away when you click >>?
can you play songs with internal player?

Installed to E:Jukebox
I can try C:

White square does not go aware when advanced.
The music plays fine and I can navigate properly.

odd maybe try right clicking the white and see if anything happens

Same on C:

Shelf 3d and the Carousel both work

If I right click the file, it bring up what looks to be an HTML dialog (with forward back navigation etc) it's looking for a file

i am not sure if maybe that lowercase e needs to be uppercase

please check u2u

and i wonder did you not have windows media player installed? is it even possible to install windows 7 without it being installed i don't know.
but installing the newest windows media player might fix the white square.

ah ok so maybe that file is not needed in the installer after all since i think it installs with windows media player.

still white...trying to figure out how that could happen

winamp...do you have UAC turned on or off?

Perhaps you should throw in a quick dependency check for WMP. Windows N is a standard version in Europe. (I should ask Pirk if he's tried win 7)

my UAC is at the 2nd to the last. I will try with it off as well

u2u forthcoming

I'm still white, but the EJ overlay is now intercepting the clicks and showing EJ menu options.

Pirk is using Win7 so must have installed WMP and winamp works for him.
Forgot Europe outlawed windows media player installing with Windows itself.

here is a new exe hopefully it will fix the white square for you.

I'll give it a go now.
FYI UAC off still getting Winamp sync error. Currently at version 5.581

Let me see if an older version works better.

No go on the white album fix.

Winamp 5.572 syncs betterer. Weirdly, the winamp displays 'pulses' in the playlist every second or so, I guess that's the interval the EJ is updating the song info. This was the same version I was using in XP. I'll keep playing with it.


So much for a clean install making things easy...

ok so old winamp works and new winamp does not
and still just a white square but both winamp and internal work otherwise.
correct me if i wrong

That's peculiar as I ran the installer for 5.581, but ran the old .exe in place for 5.572.

In any case Winamp's new beta 5.59 (3303) seems to sync correctly. So nothing should require updating.

The 'pulsing' is even odder now that I'm watching it: the up next (2.) song is fine, but the (1.) song gets overwritten (it's usually the 'nowplaying' track) I wonder if it's related to the white album area.

Perhaps I should blow this Win7 install out and try over over

another white square fix try

Negatory.

Ugh. I'm going to do a clean install of Win7 tomorrow and give everything another go. I appreciate your effort, but don't want you chasing false ghosts. I'll make sure to put WMP on before I install.

The song info being constantly fed to winamp is also making it unusable. It keeps overwriting with the same 2 songs (only songs 12 and 156 in the DB, so no real relation) Totally bonkers.

Installed Fresh Windows 7 N
Install wmp12 add-on
Installed New Winamp beta to E:Winamp
Launched once and then closed.

Install EJ with default 5.45 setup file to E:EJukebox

Launched EJ
Did a small music import
First Load



Whites boxes album and carousel
Install Flash?
Why yes I will.

EJ Auto refreshes
We have Carousel



Flip EJ to use Winamp player
EJ launches winamp, the complains of sync



I can try install using non-N version, but it should be working.

I can also provide you a Win7 N edition demo if you'd like to try in a Virtual Machine

Thoughts? Other things you'd like me to try as 'next steps'?

So I found an old 5.30 setup.exe on my computer and installed on Win7 and the 'Now playing' screen is fine. Additionally 5.30 does not make me startup in administrator mode each time.

I then 'upgraded' to 5.45 and now I'm back to the 'white' screen. Additionally EJ now requires administrator to start up.

It doesn't seem to be a skin issue as Legacy, Blue, and Vinyl do the same thing
I reverted back to 5.3 for the moment.


Winamp still has the syncing error message, but sends the first song over and starts to play it (nothing up next). If I force advancing the 'up next song' it will send song #2 over to winamp's playlist successfully, but also sends another song to the #1 slot (always the same song 'meltdown' in this case)

try running exe v5.45 do you still get the white square when you startup v5.45 with winamp closed and internal player enabled in EJ options?

look see if this file lists the current winamp playlist with EJ and winamp enabled
C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataRoamingWinampwinamp.m3u

Try this and see if it cures anything
shutdown ejukebox
open ejukebox.ini
change the [Track]Current=# to a different number
save the ini
run ejukebox.exe

if not here is a new exe to try for white square fix
if it doesn't work please u2u me the right click white error you get, if there is an error, and that path

No difference.

I can't give you the error on the white screen, as EJ has overtaken the overlay, so I just get play song etc...

ok well right click view source or properties
can you u2u that?

Same

A
Cover313

for the first song.

now it's going:


A
Cover313
A
Cover151
A
Cover313
A
Cover151
A
Cover313
A
Cover151

to try to keep up with changes that's feeding winamp. Let me turn the external player off for the moment.

Audiosoft, maybe this debugger could help me to solve "my" bug too? (display messed up on song changes)

ok what about when you play a different song
does the Cover# change?

Pirk, no not this debugger window...your bug is maybe because the skin is too much for IE9 beta? or too many graphical resources for your win7

maybe...

Jose Feliciano's 'Light My Fire' is still without its cover

Pirk, it could be the album list taking up graphical resources. make sure there are no filters in albumscroll.dis.

CiXel this might fix it for you...

That's a no go goose.

Audiosoft, I've seen ejukebox in RED once! it needs tracking more.. but sure EJ is in red when its display freeze on song change:

CiXel, sorry for the pollution of your topic!

hmm i wonder if both your issues are somehow related to the new now playing back.jpg support
try this out i have removed the now playing search for a back.jpg from this exe

Audiosoft, Thanks for this exe "without back.jpg".
i'm trying it.. the display frozen once as i skipped the Up Next song manually. so this time when it frozen the now playing song was not changing. until now no freezing on song changes..

..EJ frozen once on song change: the new song in now playing was a artist with 26 albums. i think EJ frozen while it was trying to load the albums in the shelf3d.
..twice

I noticed EJ can also freeze when i list the Most Popular Songs: a long songlist requiring too much resources, i suppose!? however with this exe it seems EJ freeze less often on song changes.

I also noticed some strange ejukebox entries in the windows mixer:

wow that is weird. do you get a new volume for every time the song changes?
freezing is really mostly a problem on long songlists with the shelf open yes?
i'm working on threading the songlist created carousel/shelf3d's loading so it doesn't freeze up
and the songlist shows up faster for things like newest songs

no new volume every time, just the last one is "updated" on song change (artist name).
well effectively sometimes long songlists can be a problem, but as i don't make long songlists very often, that relativize...
to my eyes, the more real problem is when i let ejukebox to work for me (90% of the time..) it suddenly freezes, with the associated display disorder on song changes while i do not interact. it's like if the jukebox or my PC was outdated, obsolete, or handicapped!

PS: it seems the winter arrives on EJukebox.. guitars are swirling in the falling snow!!

so it is the now playing inactive songlist loading that is causing it?

try this exe...it makes it threaded so that the songlist displays as fast as it does when shelf/carousel are disabled...while the shelf/carousel are enabled.
should stop ej from hanging while loading the shelf/carousel

since the latest updates, i have 2 miniatures for ejukebox in the windows 7 menu bar. one of them seems to be useless, and invisible when i click on it!

PS: it seems the invisible box show up only after EJ has frozen once. then this box remains until i close EJ.

with that exe songlists show up faster. things like newest songs and genres benefit more obviously. the songlist loads BEFORE the shelf instead of after the shelf. that lets you look at the songlist while it is doing the shelf loading part.

Pirk, i wonder if there is any pattern? is that with winamp or internal for audio?

CiXel and Pirk,
right click ejukebox.exe in taskmanager and tell it to run at normal priority
and see if relieves the white square and freezes for you.

I only raised the priority to high by default to stay 'above' the album list preloading but i could make it change it back after done preloading.

i tried to right click on the ejukebox process to set it to normal, but no success: access denied.
i looked into the albumlist menu: preloading is already disabled.

well false happiness, ejukebox already frozen once with winamp..

hight priority for ejukebox is not good for the others programs i use on my PC: windows media center chops the TV each time ejukebox is changing songs..

have you been able to change it to normal priority?
here is a new exe with normal priority

thanks for the exe with normal priority. you know what? it just crashs on startup:

was a bad compile i guess
also did that for me on xp
try again new exe above should work good with normal priority
let me know if that cures freezing or white square

this one is running good! and you know what? it seems it doesn't freeze the display anymore. in return am seeing some black backgrounds in the np panel and playlist on song changes, even a white playlist once, but no more total freezing, until now.. thanks.

great glad to hear it!
Hopefully it also fixes the white square for CiXel.

I'll give it a go later. I need to flip over to Win7 from XP to test.

still no freezing. this bodes well! i don't know what you changed? just the process priority?

yes priority was all i changed.
since it is better v5.46 is going up now
one change not in the above exe is 5.46 makes netrelated wait until the threaded shelf is loaded before listing

v5.46 is up
-fixes the priority back to normal
-Songlist's Shelf3D/Carousel loading is now threaded so that the songlist appears faster.

Sorry to say no go with the 5.46 upgrade. Still White Now Playing Window.

So I re re reinstalled windows 7 this time using Windows 7 Professional that included WMP built in.

EJ was the first thing I installed (I haven't even installed winamp yet) and I'm getting the white now playing screen. If I right click, EJ intercepts the click, so I have no additional information to provide.

This stinks. dang Windows 7

Have you tried installing klite from codecguide.com?

I'm going to try installing .net frameworks to see if there's any difference

I have not, but will try anything at this point.

I installed klite standard and .net framwork 4.0

No go. Moving onto .net 3.5

Win 7 already ships with 3.5.1 built in :/

other ideas?

new debugger exe
paste output here after playing a few songs with the white square
sorry i can't test the iso right now Cixel as i don't currently have an extra hard drive to play with so i will need some help to track this down
because it is not white squaring on my existing win7 test machine

Running...

Don't need an extra hardrive-
you can use a virtual machine:
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/

(also check u2u)

thanks so much CiXel
that made it very easy to track down the problem!

White square FIXED in this exe!
i also updated all the v5.47 installers with the fix.

Nice!

Totally works.
Is there any requirement change, or should the new executable take care of it?

no changes just better error handling in the exe

Great. I'll load Winamp on there and see where we're at with that oddity.

So the first time I loaded EJ and WMP was the default I switched to Winamp and just got the sync error. That white square seemed to pop up on the first load while winamp was set as the playback engine. Might try killing EJ and reloading and see what happens if it was a fluke.

It was really the sync error and odd pushing of files to Winamp I was referencing as the 'winamp' issue.

i think Winamp needs to be installed to a folder named Winamp
'Winamp7' folder name will not work with EJ

Happy to try. I had it in E:Winamp and c:program fileswinamp (ie default) with the same result.

We can try either. Which would you prefer first? Change at will if you're so inclined.

seems to sync good now
installed to Crogram FilesWinamp

the 'Winamp7' folder name was breaking it...
winamp must be installed in a folder named only 'Winamp' or EJ can't sync on Vista/Win7

Interesting. So as long as the finial directory is 'winamp' it should be square.

Is it doing the silly song thing where it keeps trying to shove another song into slot 1? I wonder if that was a byproduct of the White Square issue

no silliness - it is working good
and this exe should be able to sync with a 'winamp7' folder install

Sweet.

missed a spot in the code
here is a new exe that can work with Winamp7 folder

Productive evening. Thanks. I'll give it a go in a bit, but I trust you that it works