Is there any way I can have Musicbee not popping up whenever I play a new track?

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Is there any I can have Musicbee NOT popping up whenever I play a new track by doubleclicking on the file?
I don't want it minimized on tray per se and the little pop up when a new track in the playlist starts playing is ok, I merely want the main window of the application stay in the background unless I bring it in the foreground myself by clicking in the windows taskbar icon.
This should be pretty simple but I just can't find the setting to change that behavior.  Thanks!

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Rephrasing (I see no edit function), I am asking whether there's a way to prevent Musicbee from stealing focus from other applications as soon as you play a track.
Upon further investigation there's really no way to prevent that other than minimizing Musicbee each time you are done doing something with it which is not exactly practical.
There are a number of reasons you might want a "do not steal focus unless you deliberately click on the Musicbee icon on the taskbar" option.
In my case, I find that annoying when I am changing between songs trying to locate a specific one. But the major annoyance is I cannot use my (intended) main music player for previewing sound samples (kickdrums etc.) outside of my DAW (music making app) without having it popping up after every 1 sec track.

[frankz]

I'm still not sure what you're asking.  Are you double clicking files in Windows Explorer as you say in your first post, having them open in MB, but not wanting MB to come to the front at that time?  If so, I don't think there's a way.  That's pretty much standard Windows behavior.

But on what I think you're asking from your second post, if I have MusicBee playing tracks open to a full window but behind another window (Browser, Libre Writer, etc) and then one track is over and MB moves on to the next track, the other window stays on top and focused for input.  If that's not happening for you I don't know why that would be.

If you're looking to turn off the pop-ups that launch when tracks change or modify them, you can do that under Edit->Edit Preferences->Now Playing->show popup.

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I'm still not sure what you're asking.  Are you double clicking files in Windows Explorer as you say in your first post, having them open in MB, but not wanting MB to come to the front at that time?  If so, I don't think there's a way.  That's pretty much standard Windows behavior.

This. I do not except MB to come to the front EVERY TIME I double click a file in Windows Explorer (apart from the time you first launch it). And this is not necessarily standard Windows behavior, it's up to the program's settings/design to enforce that behavior or not. As a matter of fact I looked it up trying to find a workaround, but every conversation in forums results in the general consensus that users cannot really do anything about it and it's up to each program's dev to enforce that behavior or not.
I am looking to fully migrate from Winamp to MB and that's not the case there which is probably the reason it bugs me so much.
I really do like Musicbee overall but as I've explained, having it stealing focus each time I am trying to locate a specific song between others or preview 2 secs samples is really annoying.

I believe what I am asking is clear by now but I'll just break it in steps just in case:

*Focus in Windows Explorer
*Doubleclick a music file ----> Musicbee launches
*Focusing in Windows Explorer again
*Doubleclicking another music file ----> Musicbee comes to the front AGAIN. Winamp and other music player programs I've tried stays in background unless you click on its icon in windows taskbar.

I am not sure how easy it's for the devs to give a "stay in background" option but personally, I'd really appreciate it.

[frankz]

In that case, you should post it in the Wishlist section for consideration.

[captain_paranoia]

>  I do not except MB to come to the front EVERY TIME I double click a file in Windows Explorer

Frankly, using Windows Explorer to browse your music collection, when you have a sophisticated media manager that allows far more versatility in selecting music to play, seems rather perverse.

Why not use the music browsing facilities within MB itself, rather than use Windows Explorer? I'm pretty sure MB also offers a 'play x seconds of each track before skipping to the next' preview facility.

Each to his/her own, I guess...