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I have hardware (Silex DS600 ethernet LAN to USB) that allows use anywhere on my LAN of a USB audio interface (or almost any other type of USB device) almost as if it were plugged in to the computer. The "almost" is because whenever the DS600 sits idle for a few seconds it then takes 2-10 seconds to re-synchronize when it again is asked to pass audio data, while in the meantime producing hash. The DS600 is potentially great but needs silence to be played every time the play button is pushed, even if the sample rate does not change. This behavior is not caused by the USB audio interface which does not do this when plugged into the computer, and the behavior is consistent across other USB audio interfaces. I realize that this is something that should be fixed by Silex, but I think they don't know how. Does anyone else have equipment that would be happier with a short segment of silence every time "play" is pushed? Could it be an option?

Now that I have cleaned up my classical CD rip collection (which took quite a while), looking to back up the library in future to avoid any possibility of losing it. 

Thinking will back up the library kept on my desktop's 2TB SSD hard drive to a portable 2TB SSD hard drive used with my work laptop.  I am also considering buying an additional 2TB SSD hard drive and keeping it in a separate location as a fail-safe for any possibility (house theft, fire, etc).

Any recommendations for good back-up software?  Would like something that records changes that occur from the date of the most recent backup on the original source and then just makes those changes to the destination when doing a back-up, so that you don't have to copy the entire collection of files every time.

Thanks.

Woops - meant to post this on the main board.  Is there an option to move?

With the subject option selected, a Standard View skin incorrectly draws the expanded Scrollbar VerticalHandle (same for horizontal handle).  It appears the handle's endpoint sub-images are stretched in one direction, but not the other, resulting in a distorted handle image during enlarged mouseover and during an enlarged scrollbar drag.  Many enlarged scrollbars have always looked goofy to me, and I think this is partly to blame.

Example:  I define the handle to be a simple rectangle with rounded corners, (corner radius) = (rectangle narrow dimension) / 2, thereby giving smooth "half round" ends to the handle (see attachment, but I've seen the same issue with other handle images and other Standard View skins).  With the subject option deselected everything looks good, nicely rounded as expected.  With the option selected, the ends appear squashed, as if stretched in one direction but not the other.

I use the following code in the <SCROLLBARS> section of the skin's main.xml file:
<Entry Name="VerticalHandle"  Bitmap="Scrollbar_VerticalHandle.png"  NumberImages="3" Margins="0,5,0,5" Scale="1" DrawMode="REGION_E_VSTRETCH"/>
<Entry Name="VerticalBackground" Bitmap="Scrollbar_VerticalBackground.png"  NumberImages="1" Margins="0,5,0,5" Scale="1" />
<Entry Name="VerticalUpArrow" Bitmap="Scrollbar_VerticalUpArrow.png"  NumberImages="3" Margins="0,0,0,0" Scale="1" />
<Entry Name="VerticalDownArrow" Bitmap="Scrollbar_VerticalDownArrow.png" NumberImages="3" Margins="0,0,0,0" Scale="1" />

Seems like a bug to me.  I messed around with several other DrawMode values and did not find anything that changed the described behavior.  In any case, it cost me several frustrating hours to unravel this story while modifying a skin with the option selected.

General Comment re subject option:  It's 100% an optical illusion, and I've decided never to use it (at least as currently implemented).  This option in no way affects the actual operation of selecting the scrollbar and dragging it: (1) It does not make it easier to initially "hit" the scrollbar (2) During scrolling, the LMB down mouse can be dragged anywhere on the screen while continuing to scroll (a good thing), irrespective of this option. (3) It has the annoying side affect of pushing over the thumbnails in the Content Panel.

Note:  To take affect, MC must be re-launched after selecting/deselecting this option.

Win11 Pro (64-bit) | Win10 Pro/Home (64-bit) | MC 32.0.49 (in beta)

Just using on a single desktop computer.  I was able to get it working again by changing some settings, but not sure how got it working again.  There are a lot of features and options in MC that have no idea of what they do.  Is there a setting to change all settings back to default settings somewhere?  Thanks.

Are you using MC as a client to play from a server?

If so, look for Authentication on the wiki.

There's no general agreement on how to tag music, especially classical music.

When you look up a CD, there are often several choices.

I've spent close to a month and a lot more hours that I hoped to changing and improving Metadata tags for my CD files, renaming composers, artists (which I define as performers), album names, genres, and standardizing language and naming conventions used in my classical library so that everything is comparable.  I notice that Metadata usually comes up short and there seems to be no consistency with naming conventions and how tags are used.

There is probably no answer to this but just wondering why there can't be common conventions for Metadata that would help reduce the need for this?

I'm about to pull the trigger on some new studio monitors to go with my new iFi ZEN DAC 3. These are currently my three final contenders (though not set in stone)...

- KRK RP5G5 ROKIT 5 Generation Five
- JBL 306P MKII
- Yamaha HS5

I forgot to mention above, but the types of music I listen to are more on the rock and metal spectrum (rock, hard rock, heavy metal, extreme metal/dijent, progressive rock and metal, a little death metal, etc.) with some rap/R&B and pop music. Ideally the monitors I'm looking for should sound "clear", especially when the volume is turned up. I'm generally not really a fan of bass - I like a little bass, but most speakers I've used overdo the bass which, to my ears, distorts the clarity of the music. If I had to think about it, I am more of a fan of treble, only because it makes things sound more "clear" though I also quite like flat.

So... any final thoughts?

I'm now using a rec-709 gamma 2.4 4D LUT in JRiver and all seems fine. My TV (Samsung S90C) is quite accurate after manual calibration so the difference isnt'huge.

Questions:

1) Is there a way to see that the 3D LUT is enabled? There doesn't seem to be any info related to the 3D LUT in the OSD. If there is no way to display this info currently, it would be great to add it to the OSD (3D LUT: filename for example).
2) Is there a way to enable / disable the 3D LUT on-the-fly, as in madVR, with a hotkey (I use CTRL-SHIFT-3 in madVR)? A split-screen would be great too, to show the difference between LUT on and LUT off.
3) Assuming the LUT is active in SDR, it doesn't seem to be active in HDR passthrough, so all seems to be working as expected.

Thanks!

Solved.

Tools | Options | File Location | Cover Art

It was changed to "In a specified folder". Not by me...