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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: hiccup on April 19, 2017, 06:08:22 PM
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When the main panel is in Album Cover view, and you have the expanded panel enabled, when you click on an album the expanded panel opens.
That makes it slightly difficult if you just want to select several albums (by clicking and holding Ctrl).
Also it is not possible to play an album with a single-click on that album.
I would much like it if it would be possible to have two small area's on the album cover (e.g. top left and top right) where you can click to either play the album directly, or to only select it. Probably with small icons that appears on hover-over.
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+1 for an excellent idea.
I remember way, way back in the early days of MB when one could hover on the album artwork and a small black 'Play" button/icon would appear. Click it and the album plays. Perhaps bring that back along with a second 'hot spot' for selecting. Clicking anywhere else on the artwork opens expanded view.
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Yes, that's what I was thinking about.
I believe that particular play icon is still available, but only if you have disabled the expanded panel.
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I believe that particular play icon is still available, but only if you have disabled the expanded panel.
Hmmm ... I either didn't realize, or I have forgotten, that the expanded panel could be disabled. I just disabled it but there's no play icon displayed upon hovering.
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Hmmmm, you're right.
That was probably removed not so very long ago then.
Strange that nobody complained, I found it quite handy myself.
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+1
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i will add a small play button when hovering over a cover
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i will add a small play button when hovering over a cover
YEA!!!
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http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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i will add a small play button when hovering over a cover
The background circle of the button isn't really round. Looks a little edgy.
Also the look isn't consistent with the small play button at the top of expanded album. Maybe show only play icon with the mouse over the album, and then show background circle with the mouse over the play icon for both album cover button and expanded album button.
As for the visibility of selected albums in album view, the current 3px wide surrounding highlight line doesn't look enough especially when the album cover has similar color. How about painting caption area below it as well with the highlight color?
(http://i.imgur.com/TgYXv1d.png)
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This is very nice to have! But maybe if there was an option to put a little delay before button appears? Then it wouldn't be popping all the time, only when mouse cursor stops on the album cover, 300-500ms delay would be enough.
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http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
some small tweaks to the button graphics and a small delay before the button displays
edit:
i see there is a bug with the play button not moving when the expanded panel opens
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not directly related to the original request - i have made a few changes to the layout of the expanded panel
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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The new design looks great! Thanks :)
A slight detail bothers me though: when there's only one track with a subtitle (or whichever tag chosen), all the others have a space below them. Would it be possible to make them appear without that space? An option to hide the <Artist> tag below the title only for tracks where <Artist>=<Album Artist> would look very nice as well.
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A slight detail bothers me though: when there's only one track with a subtitle (or whichever tag chosen), all the others have a space below them. Would it be possible to make them appear without that space?
can you post a screenshot
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Personally I'm not a big fan of this latest iTunes style. Especially I don't like the big play button obstructing the view of the center of the cover where many albums have artist's face. Maybe it could move to the top of tracks or to the corner of the cover in a smaller size.
Also I noticed album reflection is gone. Hopefully it could return some day if you find a good algorithm without the ringing effect.
What's good with iTunes & Groove is they show mouse-over play button for each track not only in album view but other views as well. If that can be implemented for all views, it would be very useful.
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(http://i.imgur.com/r1QtuBl.png)
I was referring to that blank space below the track titles.
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Personally I'm not a big fan of this latest iTunes style. Especially I don't like the big play button obstructing the view of the center of the cover where many albums have artist's face. Maybe it could move to the top of tracks or to the corner of the cover in a smaller size.
Also I noticed album reflection is gone. Hopefully it could return some day if you find a good algorithm without the ringing effect.
What's good with iTunes & Groove is they show mouse-over play button for each track not only in album view but other views as well. If that can be implemented for all views, it would be very useful.
i have adjusted the button position for the expanded panel album cover.
I actually had the opposite reaction re: mouse over tracks for iTunes and found it annoying how the buttons flicker as you move from track to track. I guess i will see if there are any other comments around this before deciding what to do.
The only reason the reflection was removed is because i dont think it looks good on the left side and was distracting from the album tracks
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i have adjusted the button position for the expanded panel album cover.
Thanks! Looking much better.
I actually had the opposite reaction re: mouse over tracks for iTunes and found it annoying how the buttons flicker as you move from track to track. I guess i will see if there are any other comments around this before deciding what to do.
I think people are after less and less work. All players support double-click playing, but people prefer a single click. Also notice how Groove supports single-click selection of tracks and albums with mouse-over tickbox. They don't want to hold control button.
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i put a smaller reflection back in as i know its going to get requested
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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Thanks! Yes, people would miss it as It does make a difference especially with dark skins.
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There's a small visual glitch when the tracks are set to appear to the right of the main panel. The word 'Tracks' overlaps the right end of the Jumpbar:
(http://i.imgur.com/SXJo5Hil.jpg) (http://i.imgur.com/SXJo5Hi.jpg)
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Could we possibly get an option to hide this button please?.....
(http://i.imgur.com/LoBTQxV.jpg)
I've clicked it by accident twice already (EDIT - make that three times) when I'm clicking on album art to expand the view and see the track list, which then clears my "now playing" list and starts that album playing. Given that I can double-click on album art to achieve the same thing, it has no real positives for me, but being able to accidentally click on it is definitely a negative.
Thanks.
Also, is there a way to move the album art back to the right in the expanded track list view?
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Could we possibly get an option to hide this button please?.....
I've clicked it by accident twice already (EDIT - make that three times) when I'm clicking on album art to expand the view and see the track list, which then clears my "now playing" list and starts that album playing. Given that I can double-click on album art to achieve the same thing, it has no real positives for me, but being able to accidentally click on it is definitely a negative.
Thanks.
Also, is there a way to move the album art back to the right in the expanded track list view?
i am going to add a setting as i know the play button issue wont be liked by a number of people (me included!)
i wont add any customisation for where the artwork is displayed
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There's a small visual glitch when the tracks are set to appear to the right of the main panel. The word 'Tracks' overlaps the right end of the Jumpbar:
thats fixed now:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
i have added a setting to the Now Playing preferences: show "click to play" button.
This currently disables the new play button behavior in the artwork view and the intention is that this will also control whether the play button shows in other views as you mouse over tracks as suggested by redwing
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There's a small visual glitch when the tracks are set to appear to the right of the main panel. The word 'Tracks' overlaps the right end of the Jumpbar:
thats fixed now:
Thanks Steven - yes, it's fixed.
But now the 'play' button does not appear in Artwork View when the tracks are displayed on the ride side of the main panel. It -does- appear when the tracks are displayed directly under the selected panel. Nor does it appear when the tracks are displayed at the bottom of the main panel. And yes, the new "enable click to play button' is checked.
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i have added a setting to the Now Playing preferences: show "click to play" button.
This currently disables the new play button behavior in the artwork view and the intention is that this will also control whether the play button shows in other views as you mouse over tracks as suggested by redwing
After some experimenting with this, i dont think it really works in the Track Details or Album and Tracks views for MusicBee. I was going to use the left most column for this purpose but the clickable area for the icon is too small (Groove uses much wider row padding). It might work a bit better if the play button showed at the end of the track title text so a wider clickable space could be used but then you get the horrible flickering of text that groove has (and to a lesser extent iTunes as well). Plus the user can configure the track title text to be displayed anywhere in the panel whereas its in a fixed location for groove and iTunes. I cant imagine double clicking is a problem to users.
So i think i will not do this and move the new 'show "click to play" button' setting to the artwork panel settings and only show it on the album covers (as now)
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Yep, that's fine with me. I appreciate your effort.
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as described above:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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But now the 'play' button does not appear in Artwork View when the tracks are displayed on the ride side of the main panel. It -does- appear when the tracks are displayed directly under the selected panel. Nor does it appear when the tracks are displayed at the bottom of the main panel. And yes, the new "enable click to play button' is checked.
6403 has fixed this. Thanks.
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http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
I have made the following tweaks to the expanded panel layout - it probably wont affect most people:
- the sub-headers should be better spaced vertically, especially when 2 rows show per track
- when you configure the expanded panel with extra fields, 2 rows always displayed for each track. Now if an entire section (under a sub-header) has no value in the extra fields, then a single row displayed per track in the sub-header section.
- currently when the album has any arists that differ from the album artist, 2 rows always displayed per track. That remains the case when multiple columns are displayed but now when the expanded panel only has one column, only the tracks that have a differing artist show a second line. I might undo that if people complain about it though
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- the sub-headers should be better spaced vertically, especially when 2 rows show per track
- when you configure the expanded panel with extra fields, 2 rows always displayed for each track. Now if an entire section (under a sub-header) has no value in the extra fields, then a single row displayed per track in the sub-header section
I know it would probably play havoc with the symmetry of the panel but I'd really love it if those extra fields don't fit in the single line, they would wrap into a second line rather than be truncated with an ellipsis
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- when you configure the expanded panel with extra fields, 2 rows always displayed for each track. Now if an entire section (under a sub-header) has no value in the extra fields, then a single row displayed per track in the sub-header section.
What's the point of this? Now if all tracks have different artists from album artist, Disc 1 (sub-header) shows two rows, Disc 2 shows one row, Disc 3 shows two rows... So I added "Artists" to second line in panel configuration, but it makes no changes.
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- when you configure the expanded panel with extra fields, 2 rows always displayed for each track. Now if an entire section (under a sub-header) has no value in the extra fields, then a single row displayed per track in the sub-header section.
What's the point of this? Now if all tracks have different artists from album artist, Disc 1 (sub-header) shows two rows, Disc 2 shows one row, Disc 3 shows two rows... So I added "Artists" to second line in panel configuration, but it makes no changes.
the point only relates to the extra configured fields in the expanded panel. If any one or more tracks has an artist that differs from the album artist then the artist should display for every track. If its not doing that then its a bug although i would be surprised if that was the case
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Then it must be a bug. Also I noticed if I add <Artists> in second line, Disc 1, 3 shows artists twice in the second row while Disc 2, 4 still shows only a single row (title).
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Then it must be a bug. Also I noticed if I add <Artists> in second line, Disc 1, 3 shows artists twice in the second row while Disc 2, 4 still shows only a single row (title).
can you post a screenshot
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Did you try it yourself?
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try what myself?
you said "Now if all tracks have different artists from album artist, Disc 1 (sub-header) shows two rows, Disc 2 shows one row, Disc 3 shows two rows"
And I say that if any one or more track artist in the expanded panel differs from the album artist then all rows in the expanded panel (so that should be for disc 1,2,3) should show 2 rows ie. show the artist in all cases. I am assuming your discs are on the same album picture and your expanded panel shows more than one column (otherwise see my last bullet point)
I have tested that extensively so i need to see a screenshot to see what is going on.
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(http://i.imgur.com/WW9Cyil.png)
It behaves the same regardless of the number of columns.
All tracks have the following values:
Album Artist: Georg Solti
Artist: Georg Solti; Wiener Philharmoniker
Note that Disc 1 & 3 shows the artists value twice in second row.
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not sure what to make of that. One thing - its the Display Artist that is compared to the Album Artist and displayed. So is the display artist for all tracks in the album: "Georg Solti" or "Georg Solti; Wiener Philharmoniker" ?
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Display Artist value is all "Georg Solti; Wiener Philharmoniker".
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Then in this case all tracks have a different Artist and Album Artist. So before you added <Artists> as an extra field all disc tracks should have displayed on two lines.
And when you included <Artists> as an extra field, there should always be a value for that and yet it doesnt show for Disc 2 and 4. I will have another look at the code but i dont get it.
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No, I've never used any extra fields except the default Title. The reason I added <Artists> is it showed the same as the screenshot except Disc 1 & 3 showed artists only once in the second row.
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are you navigating to this album via the Artists view, where there are multiple albums for that artist?
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Albums view filtered by thumbnail browser <Album Artist> category. So the main panel shows all albums for the selected album artist.
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Before i spend too much time trying to figure this out, could you try this version as i did find one mistake
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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Sorry, it made no differences.
then a single row displayed per track in the sub-header section.
I'm not sure how you defined "sub-header section" here. I also noticed tracks not under sub-header shows 2 rows while tracks under sub-header shows a single row when all tracks have different artists value.
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could you run this debug version:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/sxisobon0708peo/MusicBeeDebugExpandedPanel.zip
and send me the entries at the end of the error log
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PMed it.
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Note that when I was running it I didn't add <Artists> as an extra field.
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thanks. This should fix the issue:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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Yep, that fixed it. Thanks!
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Many thanks for this, Steven, it looks great!
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track. That remains the case when multiple columns are displayed but now when the expanded panel only has one column, only the tracks that have a differing artist show a second line
MB 3.1.6406.40476
Various Artists albums are now no longer showing the different artists on each track
(http://i.cubeupload.com/lJnfG7.jpg)
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MB 3.1.6406.40476
Various Artists albums are now no longer showing the different artists on each track
it should be fixed now
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it should be fixed now
Yep. MB 3.1.6407.13656 and working fine now.
Thank you.
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When clicking on an album at the bottom row, the play button remains on the expanded panel for some milliseconds.
Once cached, it's no longer noticeable for that album, but continues to happen to other newly expanded albums.
(http://i.imgur.com/RbD4Geg.png)
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I cant seem to reproduce that although it is an issue that was happening before i made this functionality available.
Could you try this version to see if this helps:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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It seems working better.
Now I see the issue only from a few first attempts opening albums in the bottom row during that session. After opening one to two albums, other albums don't show the button.
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it should be properly fixed now. It was happening if you directly clicked the play button and the panel scrolls
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I don't think so as it's still happening and I'm not directly clicking the button. It seems to me that if you show five albums at the bottom row, it happens once for each of the five album position for that session. Next session you will see it's happening again at least five times. It's more easily noticeable for albums, the height of expanded panel of which is longer than the height of album row.
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But that was an observation with the last version, but this version seems working a bit different on further testing. I just found a few albums that always leaves the button on the panel for a short time even during the same session. What they have in common is their artwork dimension is bigger than others like 3000x3000.
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i did find one more place that needed the change:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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Excellent! I no longer see the button from any albums including those with big artwork. Thanks!
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I noticed a small bug here: when in the music explore and in similar artists, a play button appears but doesn't play music but takes you to the artist page. Can you fix this so it plays the music of the artist?
I would also like to request: if you can add play button on the main artist image in Music explore and allow to expand the image if you double click it (i cannot explain how many times i forgot that you cannot expand the artist image and clicked on it thinking that it would.) This may conflict others if they don't turn on the play button feature...so i can live without it if you feel it cannot be done.
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I would also like to request: if you can add play button on the main artist image in Music explore and allow to expand the image if you double click it (i cannot explain how many times i forgot that you cannot expand the artist image and clicked on it thinking that it would.) This may conflict others if they don't turn on the play button feature...so i can live without it if you feel it cannot be done.
are you refering to the artist picture on the profile page?
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yes, right here: http://i.imgur.com/m9OIRj4.png
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the play button bug is fixed.
As to this: "allow to expand the image if you double click it" - i still dont know what you mean. Expand what?
I guess i would be ok to add support for a play button on the artist picture
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I would like to open the image like you can do with album artwork, here is an example: http://i.imgur.com/Zn865nA.png
Currently, if you double click it just plays the artist songs but with the play button to play the songs, you can replace the double click to open the image up.
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with the bug fix only:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
i will look at the new request
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the play button is done for the next update but showing a full size picture is not done because MB doesnt actually keep the full size thumb picture
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V3_1/MusicBee31_Patched.zip
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I guess i would be ok to add support for a play button on the artist picture
I don't think this is really useful or suits the layout of Music Explorer node.
If the artist is already playing (most times in my case), then what the button does is only pause/play.
Also I don't think the button goes along with the header layout.
If you still want to keep it, then can you at least make it showing up only when the mouse is over the artist picture rather than over the whole header?
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i want to leave it in but i am ok with changing it to only show over the picture
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Thanks!
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When the main panel is in Album Cover view, and you have the expanded panel enabled, when you click on an album the expanded panel opens.
That makes it slightly difficult if you just want to select several albums (by clicking and holding Ctrl).
Bump.
This tread became quite lengthy and digressed a lot, but the original issue still remains.
Using album cover view and the extended panel option (both are nice), it is still impossible to select one or more albums without the expanded panel opening, which results in all albums getting other positions then they had before you clicked the first one.
That makes it a jumpy and nervous exercise to select more than one album for further actions.
(plain irritating to be honest)
One solution I can think of could be that e.g. clicking the top left corner of an album only selects it, and doesn't collapse the extended panel.
Another solution could be using a modifier key, so that e.g. using {Alt}+{left mouse click} only selects, and doesn't collapse the album.
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This tread became quite lengthy and digressed a lot, but the original issue still remains.
I will do this but its too late for the current version. If I do forget to do it in the next version please feel free to bump it again
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Another solution could be using a modifier key, so that e.g. using {Alt}+{left mouse click} only selects, and doesn't collapse the album.
As I have time today and its very simple to implement this suggestion, it is now done: {Alt}+{left mouse click} doesn't expand the album. To select multiple albums, you would then use the Ctrl key.
Also you still have the "click to play" button which when clicked wont expand the album but of course only applies to a single album
https://getmusicbee.com/patches/MusicBee33_Patched.zip
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That's much appreciated.
(it may sound petty, but it has been my single recurring annoyance with MB for years)
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Thanks Steven