Windows Beta 0.2.2 - Leaves Zombie App running after App Shutdown

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Running the 0.2.2 App over the weekend on my Win 10 Laptop, playing Qobuz to multi-room set of Pro Plus(es) and enjoying the progress of the embedded Qobuz UI. At the end of the evening, shutdown the App ("X"'d out), but left the laptop running (it is my main system and serves many background/overnight tasks and backups).
In the morning, noticed that while the WHA UI is gone (no Taskbar Icon, can't bring forward via TaskMgr) the App is still running in the background - taking up RAM and a few CPU Cycles. This App can be killed via End-Task in TaskMgr. But odd...
 
Another cup of coffee... And I noticed that WiiM WHA PC actually places an Icon in the TaskBar Tray (a little Black Square with tiny "WiiM" label).

This Icon has no "Default Action" (Left Click / Select or Doauble-click), but it does have a Right-Click Menu: "Open WiiM" and "Quit".

Further testing shows that the "X" on the main UI simply closes the UI (but NOT the App). The Taskbar Tray Icon is generated at App Startup, and its "Quit" really does terminate the WHA PC App.

Interesting / Frustrating - WiiM Devs going "Non-standard" with the 0.2.2 Beta Release.
 
Thanks for noting this.

With this latest beta (any others?), Taskmanager showed that WHA was running in the background after I had closed it by clicking the X in the GUI, but I didn't know about the WHA icon sitting in the taskbar's hidden-icons pull-up, nor that it would actually terminate the app.

I'm also having a problem today with numerous dropouts (both in WHA playing local DLNA server files and in Spotify Connect) and noticed WHA fails to update changes (additions) to my file server directory structure, forcing me to delete WHA's cache in /AppData/Local.

I don't recall having all these issues with previous betas, but I'm also not certain of their cause(s).
 
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The question for me is if the media server is running. If so, this behaviour serves a task (but isn't well documented).
 
I recall there being a DLNA server built into the WiiM, but now I cannot find a setting to toggle it on/off. I don't need it here, as I have my DLNA server running from an Ubuntu machine, but would like to know if this feature is still something the WiiM firmware/software still includes?

Oh, found it, under My Music. In my case, it's turned off, just wasn't sure....
 
waldo said:
I'm also having a problem today with numerous dropouts (both in WHA playing local DLNA server files and in Spotify Connect) and noticed WHA fails to update changes (additions) to my file server directory structure, forcing me to delete WHA's cache in /AppData/Local.
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There is a Manual Rescan (as well as Enable DLNA Server) button within the My Music Settings (gear icon).
 
I saw that and assumed it had to do with the built-in DLNA server, which I hadn't enabled. I've not needed to rescan (until now), and wondering whether the issue is with this latest beta.

In any case, back on-topic, I think WiiM should include a setting that lets us toggle whether the app stays running in background. I don't recall previous versions having this problem.
 
harkpabst said:
The question for me is if the media server is running. If so, this behaviour serves a task (but isn't well documented).
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Unfortunately, WHA continues to run in background even if DLNA Server is OFF.

Overall, I'm not to bent about it either way - now that I know the scheme. And it is rather like the Phone version - which simply is dismissed to the background when you doubleclick the Back Arrow.
 
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