i've added a new mini-player view. For now is called a very unexciting "View Mini Player with Playlist" and is available from the Views menu
it runs as a separate window and defaults to being top-most but can toggled
- there is a menu in this window that can be opened by clicking the musicbee icon (i will do the same for the main window later)
which allows you to open playlists, switch skins, play the library shuffled etc
- there is a status bar which can be hidden. It shows the summary info (# files and total playlist duration) and also when the mouse is over the bar, it has a button to hide/ unhide the playlist
- you can configure the player controls to include all the controls that you see in the main player (show equaliser, scrobble status, repeat and shuffle) - right click/ Configure Layout/ Player Controls/ Show All Player Controls
- you can now display track rating and last.fm love status in the info panel. The rating and love status can be clicked and changed from the panel
- as with the immediate prior version there is a new layout to view track information in a compressed format with player controls
- but you can show the player controls and the existing track info panel if you want
- i've also changed the existing track info layout in the now playing window so it stretches across the window and looks much better i think
- there are still some things that need to be done eg. invoking this window from a hotkey...
http://www.mediafire.com/?aqaw28w497218wkagain i've done a lot of testing and it should work fine but this is really complex with the number of variations that need to be tested so i suggest you keep your current version of MB handy in case you want to revert
edit:
link updated with fix to minimise to taskbar tray