MediaPortal 2 development snapshot (2014-12-19) (1 Viewer)

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It would be very strange if this side effect is caused by the ServerSettings.xml file - maybe if you have done your patch in a way so that all settings files are written to disk (not only ServerSettings.xml) but even in this case, the behavior described would be a bug...

I made my change at a central point, but I think I did not fully take into account, that there is not a global and a user file for all setting classes.
My change looks like this:
\MediaPortal\Source\Core\MediaPortal.Common\Services\Settings\SettingsManager.cs:101

    protected object LoadSettingsObject(Type settingsType)
    {
      SettingsFileHandler globalHandler = new SettingsFileHandler(GetGlobalFilePath(settingsType));
      SettingsFileHandler userHandler = new SettingsFileHandler(GetUserFilePath(settingsType));
      try
      {
        globalHandler.Load();
      }
      catch (Exception e)
      {
        ServiceRegistration.Get<ILogger>().Error("SettingsManager: Error loading global settings file for setting type '{0}'... Will clear this settings file.", e, settingsType.Name);
        globalHandler.Clear();
        RemoveSettingsData(settingsType, false, true);
      }
      try
      {
        userHandler.Load();
      }
      catch (Exception e)
      {
        ServiceRegistration.Get<ILogger>().Error("SettingsManager: Error loading user settings file for setting type '{0}'... Will clear this settings file.", e, settingsType.Name);
        userHandler.Clear();
        RemoveSettingsData(settingsType, true, false);
      }
      try
      {
        object result = Activator.CreateInstance(settingsType);
        foreach (PropertyInfo property in result.GetType().GetProperties())
        {
          SettingAttribute att = GetSettingAttribute(property);
          if (att == null) continue;
          SettingsFileHandler s = (att.SettingScope == SettingScope.Global ? globalHandler : userHandler);
          try
          {
            object value = s.GetValue(property.Name, property.PropertyType);
            if (value == null)
              if (att.HasDefault)
                value = att.DefaultValue;
              else
                continue;
            property.SetValue(result, value, null);
          }
          catch (Exception e)
          {
            ServiceRegistration.Get<ILogger>().Error("SettingsManager: Error setting property '{0}' in settings of type '{1}'" +
                (att.HasDefault ? ", using default value" : string.Empty), e, property.Name, settingsType.Name);
            if (att.HasDefault)
              property.SetValue(result, att.DefaultValue, null);
          }
        }
        /* my modification, but I guess '||' should be replaced by an '&&'
        if (!File.Exists(globalHandler.FilePath) || !File.Exists(userHandler.FilePath))
        {
          SaveSettingsObject(result);
        }*/
        return result;
      }
      catch (Exception e)
      {
        ServiceRegistration.Get<ILogger>().Error("SettingsManager: Error loading settings of type '{0}'", e, settingsType.Name);
        return null;
      }
    }

About the no sound issue: may be I hit some keyboard short cut.