GUI changes for v3.0

[syldub]

I can easily reproduce it. Here are the entries generated (I don't know why 2 similar lines are generated in ErrorLog.dat):

i will need your settings file (help/ support/ view settings)

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[Arathon]

I have some suggestion for the Music Explorer which I'm loving, it's like having a locally version of spotify (with the help of my 60k tracks :
- Use the album artist instead of artist or choose only the first one, sometimes there are multiple artist as "Modeselektor And Thom Yorke" and it will give no results for similar artist.
- "Global search of similar artists": I like using the "similar artist" results and it would be useful if there is an option to search this for all available artist and cache them so they would be available even when someone is offline. Unfortunately sometimes I don't have internet and this would help a lot.

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[gpzbc]

I have both Track Information (Details) and Artist Picture stacked (as tabs) in the right sidebar.  Everything displays properly in the right sidebar when I click on Track Information (Details), but nothing shows when I click on Artist Picture.  It just refuses to show and collapses everything from below up to the top.  Am I missing something? Thanks!

[gpzbc]

I ran into some wonkiness last night with the Playlists.  I have many of my playlists in folders.   I was trying to create a new auto-playlist within an existing folder.  I right-clicked on the folder name, then selected New-->New Auto-Playlist.  This brought up a dialog box where I could name my new auto-playlist.  Within seconds, this dialog box disappeared before I could actually type a name, and it took me to the settings box for that new auto-playlist.  So I went ahead and set the parameters for the new auto-playlist and hit Save.   Then I checked my playlists and the new auto-playlist that I just created did not exist.

So I navigated in Windows Explorer to my playlists folder and discovered that MB3 had created a blank xautopf file in my playlist folder, which essentially assigned my auto-playlist settings to the playlist folder (which I didn't know was possible).  The only way I could get rid of theses settings on the playlist folder was to close MB3, delete the entire folder in Windows Explorere and then reopen MB3.  This was reproducible.  The only way I could create the new auto-playlist that I wanted was to do it in MB 2.5.

[Alumni]

Possible bug;
With the thumb browser displaying "sort album artist" (which is strangely hidden under 'custom tags'), no artist pictures are loaded at all.

[psychoadept]

Possible bug;
With the thumb browser displaying "sort album artist" (which is strangely hidden under 'custom tags'), no artist pictures are loaded at all.

Sort Album Artist is a custom tag.  But that doesn't help with the artist picture problem. 

[Alumni]

Sort Album Artist is a custom tag.  But that doesn't help with the artist picture problem. 

I never thought of it as a custom tag, since it's available in the main panel grouping options.

[Steven]

Possible bug;
With the thumb browser displaying "sort album artist" (which is strangely hidden under 'custom tags'), no artist pictures are loaded at all.

i guess it might not be obvious it is actually a custom tag. For the artist pictures, i assume whats going on is MB is looking for "Beatles, The" and doesnt find any image matches, so i would need to put in some handling for that

[Steven]

I have both Track Information (Details) and Artist Picture stacked (as tabs) in the right sidebar.  Everything displays properly in the right sidebar when I click on Track Information (Details), but nothing shows when I click on Artist Picture.  It just refuses to show and collapses everything from below up to the top.  Am I missing something? Thanks!

thats fixed for the next update.

[Steven]

I ran into some wonkiness last night with the Playlists.  I have many of my playlists in folders.   I was trying to create a new auto-playlist within an existing folder.  I right-clicked on the folder name, then selected New-->New Auto-Playlist.  This brought up a dialog box where I could name my new auto-playlist.  Within seconds, this dialog box disappeared before I could actually type a name, and it took me to the settings box for that new auto-playlist.  So I went ahead and set the parameters for the new auto-playlist and hit Save.   Then I checked my playlists and the new auto-playlist that I just created did not exist.

if you have your left sidebar hidden then that bug should have been fixed in yesterday's update

[5moufl]

I can't rate tracks from the playlist view. small screencast (youtube)

[Steven]

I can't rate tracks from the playlist view. small screencast (youtube)

are you using the version from yesterday?
if so, what do you mean by "playlist view" - in your video you are doing this in the search results and that works fine for me

[AvikB]

found one UI bug:


 when you try to rate a slected track in playlist(with medium artwork), the star aligns to the top, which shouldn't be the case, same for the + sign with genre.

[5moufl]

are you using the version from yesterday?
if so, what do you mean by "playlist view" - in your video you are doing this in the search results and that works fine for me

If I'm in the Now Playing tab using the Playlist view, I have the same issue. And yes, I'm using build 5876.

[Steven]

If I'm in the Now Playing tab using the Playlist view, I have the same issue. And yes, I'm using build 5876.

very strange. If you send me your settings file i will take a look some more (help/ support/ view settings file)