How to auto focus cursor on currently playing song after deleting a song?

[thok]

Hi,
After deleting a song, MusicBee doesn’t set the cursor automatically to the currently playing track in the main panel.
Is there a setting or plugin to make the cursor automaticly jump to the now playing song after deletion?

I've tried "Playback follows cursor (Checkbox)"  but that's not I wanted looking for.

Thanks!

[hiccup]

Hi,
After deleting a song, MusicBee doesn’t set the cursor automatically to the currently playing track in the main panel.

Welcome to the forum thok
Indeed it doesn't. (and it shouldn't)

Not sure what your workflow is that makes you ask for something like this, but if it is that you want to easily delete a playing song, there is a shortcut for 'goto playing track'.
Click/press that, and then [Del[.

Or create an AHK script that does that in one single action.

[thok]

Thanks for your reply hiccup

I realize I wasn’t entirely clear before.

Here’s the situation I’m trying to manage:
- I listen to songs one by one, with the currently playing song clearly highlighted in the main panel.
- If I don’t like a song, I delete it.
- After I delete a song, the next one starts playing automatically, but the cursor doesn’t move to highlight the new song. This means if I want to delete the next song as well, I have to locate it manually first.

Thanks for any help
Thok

[tjinc]

Try the setting: 'highlight playing track in the main panel' and set it to 'select track'
This is found in: Edit Preferences > Now Playing - playback (section)

[thok]

Hi tjinc

I've already got this set as you discriped but it doesn't work for me.
Can you confirm that if you delete a song, the next playing song is highlighted and visiable without searching for it in the mainpanel?

https://imgur.com/a/765pLDK

[tjinc]

Can you confirm that if you delete a song, the next playing song is highlighted and visiable without searching for it in the mainpanel?

Yes, I can confirm this behaviour.
If you skip the playing track (rather than delete), is the next playing song now selected?

Perhaps you could post a screenshot of your whole MusicBee window - maybe we can spot something that might be preventing this (no promises).

[thok]

Yes, after skipping a song the next playing song is shown in the mainpanel


Ok some screen shot's
I'm playing a PLAYLIST in RANDOM mode

- displayed current playing song:
playing song to be deleted

- DEL song:
DEL song

- Mainpanel not showing the current playing song:
current playing song not displayed

I was expecting to see the currently playing song, as shown in the first screenshot. Is there a way to configure this?
The current playing songs are only seen in the right sidebar.

[tjinc]

One more question: When you say 'delete' song, are you choosing the option:

  1. 'Remove from playlist only'
or
  2.  'Remove from playlist and delete the file'

This will make a difference.

[thok]

I always also delete the file so it's

 2.  'Remove from playlist and delete the file'

[tjinc]

In that case I can't explain this as it is working for me.

The only reason I can think that the newly playing track is not selected is that it is not the playlist.
(Maybe someone else will have an idea.)

[thok]

Thank you for your effort, tjinc – much appreciated! 😊

[tjinc]

I have actually got one more thought (they are running out).

That playlist looks like it might be an auto-playlist - is that correct?
If so what are the rules?

When you delete a file from the auto-playlist, I believe that it is refreshed (i.e. the playlist is recreated). This may cause the issue you are seeing.....possibly?

[thok]

You're absolutely right — it's an auto-playlist, and I had the option "automatically refresh the matching tracks" enabled.
After disabling this option, the currently playing track is now always displayed.

Perfectly spotted! Now I just need to figure out how to keep the auto-playlist up to date while still being able to continuously remove songs.

You had the right instinct — thank you for your time and effort!

[tjinc]

Phew!!!

Glad we got there.