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- for the A-Z bar, as well as showning decades, it now also shows years if it can fit on the panel

Wow, that's perfect. If anyone is curious, here's what it looks like with my setup;


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That's looking very good indeed.
I am only thinking, looking at it, the bar doesn't highlight the selected year.
Would that perhaps be possible/desirable?

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Oh my gosh, yes!  Exactly what was needed to go with the billboard charts.  Beautiful:




It's having a hard time with my classical collection, which doesn't fit the bar.



Maybe if the decades don't fit the bar, they should be collapsed like the years. So like this (based on my screenshot):

1572 80 1600 10 30 90 1720 30 40 80 1810 etc...


Some of my playlist folders have stopped showing all tracks when I select the folder.  Any idea why?

Bump  :)
Last Edit: March 12, 2016, 09:50:46 PM by psychoadept
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Yes, I guess we are so spoiled, we sometimes expect the impossible ;-)
When personal computers started, nothing was expected and any accomplishment was a monumentus acheivement.  Now everything is expected and it should take no more than 5 minutes.  The world has evolved...a fascinating journey.  And we've barely scratched the surface.  @Steven...can you relate?

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well that is the case with track information panel too..isn't it?.most of artwork are of different size.no matter we choose between playing/selected.but the position stays the way it should.

There is a difference. Album art aspect ratio's don't vary very much, and for the track info panel it will only affect the other content within that panel. It doesn't effect panels above or below it.
I am not trying to make a point here.
Just curious if you would accept either:
- the position and size of panels above and below the artist picture panel changing continuously.
- having a fixed size for the artist picture panel, and having black (or grey, or yellow) bars around the picture.
Yeah i got u what u trying to say.. i didn't understand earlier
well i would definitely don't want to have bars around the picture.i just asked would be nice if there had been feature where one can make a choose what kind of artist picture one would like.Fit to panel or certain PX..
isn't it what is  the beauty of musicbee that one customize according to needs and liking.that is why there are so many options with panels and layouts.

With Artist Pictures the display area is fixed to 4:3 ratio.
I don't know if Steven has selected this a compromise between landscape and portrait orientation, or it hasn't been adjusted from the olden days when that was the dominant screen format.
The 16:9 format dominates know, and for those images that don't fit, I'd much rather see some coloured stripes that blend to the panel background colours, than have the sometimes strangely cropped images we get now.

This goes for compact player as well.
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Please support displaying duration for sidebar player of now playing tab.

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Please adjust minimum column size for Play Count.  When I use "Auto Size All Columns" on my main library layout, I get this:

which is kind of silly.  :)  (No, there are no other digits.)

Fixed, thanks!
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I just tried locking a tab with partial navigation - it says it allows playlists and filters, but playlists still open in a new tab?

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Regarding the new grouping feature, based on personal experience it could really benefit from a couple tweaks;
- remember grouping on/off status on a per tab basis - currently it's a global setting and overrules other tab layouts.
- option to disable grouping for playlists by default - this is one area where you might not need grouping.

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Some of my playlist folders have stopped showing all tracks when I select the folder.  Any idea why?
MB iterates every static and auto-playlist shown in the folder and includes every unique file from all of those playlists. If it failed for any reason an error would show

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Some of my playlist folders have stopped showing all tracks when I select the folder.  Any idea why?
MB iterates every static and auto-playlist shown in the folder and includes every unique file from all of those playlists. If it failed for any reason an error would show

I checked the error log, but there's nothing related to this.  It's happening for 2/6 playlist folders.  Do you need a screenshot?                                                                                                       
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- option to disable grouping for playlists by default - this is one area where you might not need grouping.
i am going to disable grouping headers when playlists are not sorted

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- option to disable grouping for playlists by default - this is one area where you might not need grouping.
you could use a custom view

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double-click on an album no longer displays the contents of the album.
is this a bug or a setting?

only the Albumcover ist displayed.




Last Edit: March 13, 2016, 12:23:23 PM by h0m3r

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change the selected view when viewing the drill-down contents
it should default to Album and Tracks layout for new users