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Tag field seems empty while typing
bob:
--- Quote from: EnglishTiger on August 15, 2022, 10:00:48 am ---Matt - there is definitely something odd going on in both Tag Windows in the windows & mac versions of MC
With the Advanced Section of the Modern Tag Window open I entered some data into both the Band and Comment Fields.
Then I alternated between clicking on the Tag Name and Tag Contents, to be able to edit the content; sometimes the content of the field was visible and sometimes it was not!
I then got the same behaviour when I tried doing the same thing with the Legacy Tag Window.
--- End quote ---
Trying to test this on Mac. I can't reproduce it so far.
Did you allow MC to have screen recording permissions? Sometimes it grabs content from a window, stores it and puts it back.
It can't do that without recording permissions.
EnglishTiger:
Bob - yes I did give MC every Permission it asked for.
As I said in an earlier post sometimes MC will behave itself for ages before switching itself into "Village Idiot Mode on the Win and Mac Platforms" and start pretending that Populated Tags are Empty.
The one thing I have discovered though is that if MC is just sitting there doing nothing else The Modern Tag Window has a tendency to Immediately drop into Village Idiot Mode
I've attached 2 links to Videos that clearly show the problem.
The 1st one was supplied by another user, who has asked me not to reveal their identity
The second one starts with MC sitting doing nothing and reveals that sometimes it immediately does start acting up.
However, once I let MC play that track sometimes it would behave itself, then go into Village Idiot Mode, only to switch back to behaving itself. Though towards the end of the video when I was looking at the Track # Tag it did something odd - the cranky thing looked like it was going to behave and did reveal the content to then change its mind and decide the tag was empty.
There is one situation where, no matter how often I opened and closed the Tag, MC always behaved itself and that was with a Tag where the Tag Type and Edit Type were both "List" and the tag had more than one entry. i.e. a Track where there was more that 1 Composer.
Video 1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/nwxawqtpork1tun/Screen%20Recording%202022-09-10%20at%2007.28.10.mov?dl=0
Video 2 https://www.dropbox.com/s/3fhkx6f4196ytda/Screen%20Recording%202022-09-10%20at%2008.01.15.mov?dl=0
Matt:
I haven't been able to reproduce that on Windows. Does the same happen there for you, or is it Mac only?
Any extra clues that might help us reproduce?
Thanks.
EnglishTiger:
Matt - when running MC on the Win PC when/or if the Modern Tag Window will start misbehaving is unpredictable. For hours and even days it will behave normally and then suddenly misbehave once or twice when opening and closing a Tag to edit it, then revert to behaving normally.
In addition, unlike with the Mac, I found it extremely difficult to get the tag window to misbehave when nothing was playing.
It may even be possible this "odd/miscreant behaviour" may have been around since the introduction of the Advanced/Modern Tag Window. Once I'd observed it in MC29 on both platforms, I started downloading previous "generations" of MC. I went back as far as MC24 on both the Win and PC platforms and, even though I sometimes ended up opening and closing the same tag for hours on end I did observe the same "odd behaviour" on both platforms in MC24 thru MC29 and the MC30 Beta's on the win pc.
JimH:
Longshot, but take a look at the jmd files in this and other nearby folders:
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\J River\Media Center 29\Library
Your description sounds like occasionally the appropriate file can't be opened or read. Antivirus is always my hunch with problems related to opening files.
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