Associated files do start dAP but don't start playing

[Fidelio]

Since I started creating my own skin, mp3 files for example do start dAP, but don't play. If I click on play then, the last played file instead will continue (where I last stopped it).

I have to drag the file manually to the player to get it playing. This behaviour is in all skins now. But I'm quite sure, it wasn't that way when I started using dAP.

I tried to delete the registry key, but it didn't help.

Any ideas?

[Spoon]

Try this test - load dAP, unclick play so it is sat there doing nothing. Next double click a file in Explorer - what happens?

[Fidelio]

Start a file when player is idle...

I tried that. When I click such a file, the player get's topped, but doesn't start playing and in the display is still the old (before) played file visible.

When I click on play, the last played file starts (the one, that was visible in the display).

I have to drag a new file on the player in order to get this one playing.

[Spoon]

If random play is down does dap play from MMC?

[Fidelio]

Does it play from MMC with random play

It does play from MMC but just the next song in the MMC list. So it doesn't make a difference if random play is on or off. I checked that with the original skin too.

[Spoon]

Try either switching the Crossfader off, or in Options Menu >> Amp and select the other 'Output To'

[Fidelio]

Didn't help

I tried both (cross fading was already off), but it didn't help. Do you think I should completely remove dAP (incl. registry entries) and start from scratch?

btw: take a look at my skin - the first time I've done such a thing... of course it's not finished yet, it resembles still very much the original ;-)

[Fidelio]

Skin...

Ooops, for some reason the screenshot of my skin doesn't show up...:sad:

[Spoon]

You could try totally clearing it off - just delete that registry folder and the folder:

C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpowerAMP

after backing up your Music Collection if you have one.

Images cannot be uploaded to this forum, sorry.

[Fidelio]

Restart from zero

I wiped out everything completely and restarted it. But the behaviour remains the same. I think I can just live with that and use dAP as a music player and not as the standard audio player. It still is a very neat piece of software.

[Spoon]

It couldbe the type of audio file you are playing, try double clicking Wave files to see if they start dAP?

[Fidelio]

Tried wav-files too...

but the reaction is the same. When dAP starts it plays the last played song from the point where you stopped it. I regard this as a feature now. So I can play my mp3 files without bothering where I left my music collection. Thanks for your help. And thanks for the cool software!