Maybe I should have split this into 3 topics since they are sort of unrelated but that seems overkill for one person.
Blurry High DPI Scaling in Windows: I've done a search of topics for tips on how to scale things for a High DPI display and found some suggestions. I'm wondering if anyone has found a "better way" of doing this. So far I'm stuck with two bad options. Let me explain. I have a large-ish 4K television and would like Clementine to handle audio because it's my favorite player. Since this television is used from across the room, Windows recommends a scaling of 300% which actually looks very nice for most apps. By default, allowing Clementine to handle scaling results in various issues. All text scales properly. The library, playlist, and Windows menu scales nicely. If I set sources as tabs instead of buttons, they scale nicely. Playlist controls, play/pause/stop/volume/etc controls, and track progress do not scale at all. In fact, all of those buttons are approximately a third the size of my mouse cursor. Nearly unusable. Another option suggested in these topics is to set the High DPI compatibility mode to override the application and allow the system to scale the app. This essentially scales the app as a bitmap. This seems like it would be fine, but at 300% scaling, every pixel in the app becomes NINE PIXELS on the screen. As you might imagine, compared to everything else on the screen, this makes Clementine look like blurry, aliased, jaggedy garbage. It's usable, but it looks like trash. Has anyone found a bettery option? Export Options: Less important. I'd like to be able to create a playlist and then create a copy of only those music files in a second location. Not a m3u file but an entire copy of just that subset of my library. In general, I don't want to put my ENTIRE music library on a smaller media device such as a phone, an mp3 player, or a usb pen drive to play in my car. I'd rather have a subet of my library perhaps 5-20 GB of music instead of everything. In general, I use an entirely different app, MusicBee, to do this because I can't figure out how to do it in Clementine. However, I realized that I could probably just export an m3u file from Clementine then write a bash script to actually copy the files. Doing this directly from Clementine would of course be better than using a script. Does anyone know of a way to do this that I haven't found? Linux Audio Tricks: So of course Clementine is my main player in both Windows and Linux. Every Linux audio player used on every Linux machine I've ever owned within the past 10 years has this same issue... my guess is it is something not nice about the audio stream back ends. When a music audio stream starts playing in Linux, there is commonly a short moment of digital noise at the beginning. This is generally audible as a relatively loud popping sound. Most of the time it's annoying. Sometimes with high audio levels or loud speakers, it borders on painful. For reference, I'm primarily a KDE person, but I also commonly use XFCE for my virtual machines and have also used Gnome and Unity machines in the past. I've also used Linux on dozens of different machines over the years as I've used them for work and research. I can't think of a single machine that I've used in Linux that has not done this, but it basically never happens in Windows on the same hardware. In Clementine, I can get rid of a lot of this popping sound in Linux by setting a short volume ramp (even 100 ms is enough) as music begins and ends. So if I hit the play button in Clementine in Linux? No popping. If I skip to a different track? No popping. Where does this not work? If I skip to a different part of the same track using the progress bar. Then I have popping. Anyone have a way to avoid this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clementine Music Player" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/clementine-player/1b3d74db-fc54-4504-a703-979ac170b7c9%40googlegroups.com.
