Discord only shows 'playing musicbee'

[demon326]

Describe the bug It only shows 'playing MusicBee' and not the song and or artist.

Expected behavior Discord should show musicbee as status, but that is not happening. Plugin has been installed as instructed.

Screenshots If applicable, add screenshots to help explain your problem.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• MusicBee Version: MusicBee 3.3.7367

• Plugin Version: latest as of 04/04/2020

• Windows 10 latest

[sll552]

As I cannot reproduce this:

1. Was it a clean install or update of the plugin?
2. Please take a look at "Preferences -> Plugins" there should be a discordbee entry but disabled, what happens when you try to enable the plugin in this dialog?
3. Try to delete the DiscordBee-master folder in your plugins directory.
4. Is there anything related to the plugin in the error log (Help -> Support -> View Error Log)?

[demon326]

1) Clean install, i even tried and older version 2) Its enabled by default and it looks like the musicbee side works, as the placeholders got data in there.

3) that was just an empty folder, just forgot to delete it when i took the screenshot. Deleting it does not help. 4) the error logs are empty, thus no errors to be reported.

I have reinstalled both Musicbee as discord and the same issue persists. I suspect Musicbee cannot communicate with discord.

I even tried with a clean virtual windows 10 machine with only discord and musicbee installed and that has the same effect. I did this to rule out any config issue.

[sll552]

Try to remove musicbee from the games list in discord. Do you have any discord addons installed (e.g. betterdiscord)?

[demon326]

Try to remove musicbee from the games list in discord. Do you have any discord addons installed (e.g. betterdiscord)?

Removed musicbee on the discord side of things a few times, it stays the same. No addons have been installed. It like i said, it also happens in a clean envirement, a VM win 10 box with only discord and musicbee in there default states.

I don't need discord nitro, do i? because if that would be the case, we'd be running in circles.

[sll552]

No, no need for nitro.

I will try to replicate this in a clean VM in the evening, but its a really strange problem because it seems like the plugin is not crashing or anything and its happening on a clean VM.

If you don't like to wait, the only thing that I think could yield a hint would be that you install visual studio, open this project and run musicbee through the debugger.

Just to be sure that I get your environment right, are you using the windows store version of musicbee? If yes, please try with the installer version.

[demon326]

i'm not using the windows store version of both apps. i'm using the installer files downloaded from there websites.

I made a debug log and i hope i got it right: Without plugin enabled: The thread 0x2208 has exited with code 0 (0x0).

With plugin enabled:

Exception thrown: 'System.FormatException' in mscorlib.dll
Trace: Enqueue Command: DiscordRPC.RPC.Commands.PresenceCommand
Exception thrown: 'System.FormatException' in mscorlib.dll
The thread 0x55a8 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Trace: Attempting to send payload: SetActivity
Trace: Sending payload: SetActivity
Trace: Sent Successfully.
Trace: Ending Read
Trace: Read 346 bytes
Trace: Read a frame: Frame
Trace: Starting another read
Trace: Begining Read of 16384 bytes
Trace: Read Payload: Frame
Trace: Handling Response. Cmd: SetActivity, Event: 
Trace: Enqueued Message, but queue size is 0.
The thread 0x47a0 has exited with code 0 (0x0). --> happens around the 10 second mark of the song

After about the last error message the log debug stays where it is, unless i pauze/stop and so on.

[sll552]

there should be much more output, interesting would be everything around and after something like this:

Trace: Attempting a new connection
DiscordBee loaded
Trace: RPC Connection Started
Trace: ============================
Trace: Assembly:             DiscordRPC, Version=1.0.150.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
Trace: Pipe:                 DiscordRPC.IO.ManagedNamedPipeClient
Trace: Platform:             Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.18363.0
Trace: applicationID:        409394531948298250
Trace: targetPipe:           -1
Trace: POLL_RATE:            1000
Trace: _maxRtQueueSize:      512
Trace: _maxRxQueueSize:      0
Trace: ============================
Trace: Connecting to the pipe through the DiscordRPC.IO.ManagedNamedPipeClient
Trace: ManagedNamedPipeClient.Connection(-1)
Trace: Connection Attempt 0 ()
Trace: Attempting to connect to discord-ipc-0
Trace: Waiting for connection...
Trace: Connected to discord-ipc-0
Trace: Done. Result: False

I also got the messages you posted so I still have no clue what could be the problem here. Have you tried other songs?

[demon326]

Hi, it looks like did not got the full log, retried this time and got more output: https://pastebin.com/WfXTsLWY

Tried a few other songs and it seems its the same issue. its strange that it only happens on my clients, but you cannot reproduce it. Even stranger that it happens in a clean windows install.

[sll552]

I know this gets kinda random right now, but could you try with a new discord account?

Edit: I tried it in a new VM (Windows Dev VM) with Musicbee, plugin and discord freshly installed and I used a test account in Discord. Everything seems to work, the strange thing is that there are no errors in your output and looks just like it would be working...

[demon326]

I tried a new account and that gives the same issue. But i'v been thinking, since it works for 99% of the users, it has to be a 'hardware issue' if it happens in a clean vm install.

Could it be that one of those patches for the intel vulnerabilities is causing some kind of issue? The last bios flash i did just contains 'microcode updates and fix for Intel ME for security vulnerabilities'.

Maybe you could upload the VM instance(i know, its huge), so i can see if it is really a HW issue or not :)

[sll552]

I do not suspect an actual hardware issue, those patches should not cause any poblem. I think there is some part of your environment that`s special and that I am missing here. Are you using any "Anti-Virus" or "Internet Security" software?

I guess uploading the whole VM is a bit much but I will try to get all the steps I did written down or maybe a screencast, when I get off work. The base image I used was the developer VM from Microsoft for VMware https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/ I did download musicbee, the plugin and discord, installed all of it, added a soundcard to the VM, logged in at discord with a testuser and everything worked. I for example did not add musicbee to the games list.

[demon326]

Out of nowhere it seems to be working like expected, typical :). Just one more question: Will it always just show 'playing musicbee' on the left side, when in DM mode?

[sll552]

😄 glad that it is working now. I will close the issue.

Yes unfortunately I cannot change that, see #3 for more info.