Expandable View in the Artwork layout

[Steven]

this version has:
- highlighting rule is now supported. For text colouring, MB uses a mix of the colour you select and the colour MB would have used for the foreground because the background colours vary
- more keyboard friendly:
    - expanded panel doesnt automatically open when selecting a picture via the keyboard - you need to hit Enter to open and Escape to close
    - hitting Enter again on an open panel will play the tracks
    - once the expanded panel is opened then keys will move the selection within the expanded panel - you need to hit Escape to close the panel and then arrow keys will move between pictures
- i still plan to look at the other requests and issues but at a later date

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_5/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

[redwing]

Since the update you made, double-clicking on the main player display for locating playing track does not work properly in artwork view. It only locates playing album or playing artist (depending on "group by" setting), and does not show the playing track in expanded panel. Can you fix this?

[Steven]

this should fix the locate track functionality not opening the expanded panel:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_5/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

[between6and7]

 :(Ehh, I don't like the highlighting new feature. How can I disable it?

[psychoadept]

:(Ehh, I don't like the highlighting new feature. How can I disable it?

The easiest way would be to deactivate your highlighting rules while using that view.

[Steven]

i might remove the text colouring component as it wont always work well depending on the background colour. At least with the highlight block field, it needs to be explicity chosen for the panel and it has a border that makes it show.
But i will see if anyone else has any comments.

[redwing]

this should fix the locate track functionality not opening the expanded panel:
http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_5/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

It's fixed. Thanks!

Regarding highlighting, disabling text coloring option for specific rules would work if the (mixed) text color is the issue.

The problem I'm having is that highlighting column and text coloring don't work properly.

1. Create a rule "filename" "is" "playing track", with text coloring option unticked.
2. But highlighting column shows nothing for playing track. If you switch to another view (say Album & Tracks view) and switch back, then it starts working properly.

3. Now tick text coloring option for the same rule.
4. Play a track, but nothing happens to either text or highlighting column.
5. Highlighting starts working only after a track in the album played out.

[Sigma]

I've found a new bug in the latest 2.5 beta related to the expandable view when using the A-Z jump list. Details here: -

http://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=14196.msg84878

[Steven]

1. Create a rule "filename" "is" "playing track", with text coloring option unticked.
2. But highlighting column shows nothing for playing track. If you switch to another view (say Album & Tracks view) and switch back, then it starts working properly.

3. Now tick text coloring option for the same rule.
4. Play a track, but nothing happens to either text or highlighting column.
5. Highlighting starts working only after a track in the album played out.

this should be fixed now for the highlighting field.
support text highlighting in the artwork layout has been removed because the colour mixing doesnt always work well

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_5/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

[redwing]

It doesn't look like the bug's fixed. Still requires switching to another view to make highlighting field work.

[Steven]

it should be fixed properly for the next v2.5 update.

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_5/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip

[redwing]

Working fine now. Thanks!

[redwing]

Bump again.

Bumping this annoying bug second time.

If you edit any tags for tracks in artwork view grouped by (album) artist and click on the arrow buttons on album list, album covers disappear from the list. To fix this, you have to close down the expanded panel and reopen it.

[Steven]

thats fixed for the next v2.5 update

[Steven]

http://musicbee.niblseed.com/V2_5/MusicBee_Exe_Patched.zip