Drag a drop is not great though. It won’t let me drag into a folder. Dragging onto a folder turns the folder red and won’t let me drop it. I have to drag to the main app and then it puts the song in a new folder. Then I have to drag the song from the new folder into the folder I want it in.
The drag and drop within the app is really buggy too. There’s no way to “slow scroll” through when you’re dragging up through a large folder. It just zooms to the top as soon as it starts moving. I haven’t found a way to just scroll part of the way up when dragging and dropping songs from one folder to another, or to another part of the same folder.
MOD EDIT: Thanks for sharing your crash log as I’m sure it could be helpful for the developers.
I copied and pasted the contents to pdf which I’m attaching. In the future, would you mind exporting your log files as either a plain text or pdf? This will help, especially if it includes the last 44 lines which were truncated by Discourse from your original post.
For all the macOS users having trouble getting the BB Loader to work, if you have not yet performed these tips, they might help you get up and running.
Check that you have updated to the latest version of Java;
It’s great to see this finally start to get somewhere. Still nowhere near what I’d like it to be but I was excited to see on your Instagram post that there is work being done on a new Manager. If the editing mentioned includes MIDI and drumsets then that is going to be the winner for me. Everything in one spot and not having to move between apps to create songs.
The app does not work on my M1 Mac. I sent an email to your support email address about 10 days ago; there has been no response. So I’ll try here.
Description: What actually happened?
— When I start BeatBuddy Loader, it gets only to putting up its name in the upper left corner and its icon in the Dock. It does not open the BeatBuddy Loader window. And the app will not quit either; it has to be Force Quit.
Version Number: v1.1.2 the Mac M1 Ventura
Steps To Reproduce: Double click the BeatBuddy Loader app file
Expected vs actual Behavior: I expect it to open completely and present the BeatBuddy Loader window, the image at the top of this thread, so I can do something with the application.
Instead, it stops as I said above with the name of the app (no menu; clicking on the name does not give the menu for the app, as it should) and the icon in the Dock.
Visual proof: There’s not much to see, because the app has not loaded properly—it just stops. The app name menu header (but there is no menu) and the app icon are all there is to see. The window doesn’t open.
I’m using an M1 Mac mini, with MacOS Sonoma 14.0. I also have the latest version of Java 8 Update 391.
Thank you for providing the details as you’ve done—they are helpful.
Although I think I had it working in Ventura, I can’t remember. And my previous reply (which I’ve since deleted, was premature and incorrect—my apologies).
I just tested the Loader v1.1.2 with Sonoma and my Mac Mini M2 and it does not work.
The good news is that Singular Sound is more than likely aware of your report and they’re working on a solution. If you can tolerate using the BeatBuddy Manager (BBM) just a little longer until they provide an updated Loader, you will at least have a workaround.
I was wondering if you can add the ability to duplicate a playlist?
It would make creating playlists much easier once you create a base playlist, you keep using it as a template for any new ones.
The way it works now, is you have to recreate the playlist from either scratch, or exporting a folder which are not actually ideal when needing a new one. My songs come from several folders (not just one). Duplicating playlists would be very convenience and powerful.
At this time we do not believe we will be adding any new features to the BBL and we will be spending all our BeatBuddy development force towards the new BeatBuddy Manager 2 as it will have a lot more flexibility and room for the nice to have features like the one you’re describing.
Just confirming the same re BB Loader not working as of Dec 8, 2023 on Apple M2 Pro / Sonoma 14.1.2
BBManager version 1.64 works fine.
Deleting BBLoader. (Also, don’t understand why upgrading Java would help; looks like the app has Java embedded in it. Wouldn’t it just default to that version?)
