Regarding the status of my CI build machine: I went there this weekend and had a look and indeed internet connection is currently broken due to the construction work going on there. That means it will be offline for some time (several weeks probably) 😢. I saw adeyblue is working on a replacement sys...

Thanks for the report; I'm aware of the issue but haven't had the time to drive to the machine yet (as it's not reachable via remote connection anymore) and have a look what's wrong (e.g. there may be some Internet connectivity issues due to the construction work taking place there currently). I'll ...

For some reason it ran into a timeout (took longer than 2 hours), but as far as I saw last night's build completed successfully. Before there were some general internet connectivity issues. Better internet connection (fiber ... finally) is coming soon.

It seems tonight's upload worked again, but previously a few ones failed. I had a look into the logs and it seems to be the same issue as recently, where the web-endpoint of the Jenkins server was not reachable (on localhost!) for some strange reason. It's not the build itself that's failing, but th...

Not sure what CPU usage during idle time has to do with system stability? Anyways, probably just some services you either installed (like Chrome Updater) or included with Windows (like Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry). If you don't see any userspace process having the CPU load, but rather some sys...

hm :-/ It hung again in a strange state where the service itself was alive but didn't respond to webrequests anymore. Updated Jenkins + plugins ... hope that fixes it, otherwise I've no idea why it fails. Triggered the upload of the recent builds manually. Documentation build is not affected because...

Thanks for the hint! restarted the system (Windows Updates) and freed up some disk space (had only a few 100MB left) now it should be working again

You might also look into something like this: https://github.com/sahib/glyr It provides a command line tool as well. This could be a way simpler solution, if invoking some external utility is enough for your needs. Alternatively it can be used as library as well (probably with similar effort as if u...

But the better solution would be replacing Bass by GStreamer, the GLib based alternative (that's cross-platform). Bass is also cross-platform. The biggest advantage of gstreamer is probably its license, which also allows free commercial usage (while Bass is only free for non-commercial usage). And ...

I downloaded PLEX and started it. 3 hours later using almost 100% of one core+ it was still running and killing anything else running. I finally killed it and unloaded it. Never tried Plex for music, but I guess you either have a very large music library or a quite old/low-end PC if indexing and fe...

I set the compiler path and now it works fine, but should I use the fbc64.exe instead of fbc.exe ? That mostly depends on what you want. If you want to build 32-bit applications then use fbc32.exe, if you want to build 64-bit applications use fbc64.exe. The third one, fbc.exe must be from some diff...

Both Plex and musicBrainz offer web-services, easily accessible via REST APIs. See documentation pages: Plex API: https://www.plexopedia.com/plex-media-server/api/ MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development The tools are quite different and which one is more suitable totally depends on wha...

In case you searched for the toolchain(s) used to build fbc on Windows, it's linked on the release page: https://freebasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31376
(not sure if I correctly understood what you've searched for an hour)

Never tried it for music (only for movies), but Plex also supports Music. It will automatically fetch metdata from various sources, including AllMusic and MusicBrainz.

I think the MusicBrainz database is freely available, so you could use it in your own software as well.