Unable to initialise plugin

[Realswitzer]

Describe the bug While trying to enable Discordbee, after having to reinstall Musicbee due to it crashing constantly, plugin does not work. Receive error saying "Unable to initialise plugin: mb_DiscordBee.dll" with reason "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation."

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Download discordbee and put in Plugins folder
2. Open Musicbee and try to enable plugin in Preferences > Plugins
3. See error

Expected behavior The plugin would be enabled.

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Environment (please complete the following information):

• MusicBee Version: 3.5.8447 Installer Edition on Windows 10
• Plugin Version: 3.0.4

Additional context While I looked for another issue that mentioned this, plugin version 3.0.7 was linked but am unable to download as it's old and not hosted on the server.

[Suppression345]

Hi there. I have been having this exact same issue. I've tried contacting the DiscordBee server about it, but my efforts are to no avail so far. Any updates?

[sll552]

Please look in the error log of musicbee if there is an exception logged and post it here

[Realswitzer]

3/10/2023 2:58:13 PM - 10.0.19044.0 - 3.5.8447.35892D - System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationException: There was an error deserializing the object of type MusicBeePlugin.Settings. The data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. ---> System.Xml.XmlException: The data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1. at System.Xml.XmlExceptionHelper.ThrowXmlException(XmlDictionaryReader reader, String res, String arg1, String arg2, String arg3) at System.Xml.XmlUTF8TextReader.Read() at System.Xml.XmlBaseReader.IsStartElement() at System.Xml.XmlBaseReader.IsStartElement(XmlDictionaryString localName, XmlDictionaryString namespaceUri) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlReaderDelegator.IsStartElement(XmlDictionaryString localname, XmlDictionaryString ns) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.IsRootElement(XmlReaderDelegator reader, DataContract contract, XmlDictionaryString name, XmlDictionaryString ns) at System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSerializer.InternalIsStartObject(XmlReaderDelegator reader) at System.Runtime.Serialization.DataContractSerializer.InternalReadObject(XmlReaderDelegator xmlReader, Boolean verifyObjectName, DataContractResolver dataContractResolver) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.ReadObjectHandleExceptions(XmlReaderDelegator reader, Boolean verifyObjectName, DataContractResolver dataContractResolver) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.ReadObjectHandleExceptions(XmlReaderDelegator reader, Boolean verifyObjectName, DataContractResolver dataContractResolver) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.ReadObject(XmlDictionaryReader reader) at System.Runtime.Serialization.XmlObjectSerializer.ReadObject(Stream stream) at MusicBeePlugin.Settings.Load(String filePath) at MusicBeePlugin.Settings.GetInstance(String filePath) at MusicBeePlugin.Plugin.Initialise(IntPtr apiInterfacePtr) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture) at System.Reflection.MethodBase.Invoke(Object obj, Object[] parameters) at #=z5PgYRDH$zNo7WhzgWg==..ctor(#=z4$90odPQW5oVh9588w== #=zeHK_e $g=) Unfortunately, due to GitHub upload limitations I have to use a double extension to send the full log here. ErrorLog.dat.txt

[sll552]

Ok looks like your settings file got corrupted somehow.

Just delete %APPDATA%\MusicBee\DiscordBee\DiscordBee.settings and try again

[Realswitzer]

Oh, it worked now. Unsure what caused it to get corrupted though. Will close, reopen if needed.