GUI and library / playlist management suggestions

[peterpa]

I'm not sure if the library was designed to be used the way i'm thinking:

What i would like to see is the ability to have more then one Music Library heading in the left column, so the top level could be called "Library - MusicBee" and under that - where "Music Library" is now, have the option to add several libraries. 
For example in my case i would have a library called "Lossless - Single Artist" and "Lossy - Single Artist" and maybe even another for "Various Artists" for compilations.  Further to this you could set the view modes differently for each library - so single artist libraries could have a default view of Genre / Artist / Album and VA library could be Genre / Album.
I know this kind of already exists but functionality could be improved with a library management screen where you could add delete libraries too (only way i know of now is to physically delete the library management files to remove said library)


It would also be nice to see the ability to send a singe song or album to an existing playlist, for example from the context menu click on a song (either in the library or the active playlist) and go List > Add item(s) to existing playlist > *existing playlist names*, and maybe even the option to assign a hot key to this action.


I would like to be able to minimize the player from Mini Player and Main Player view modes - while still keeping a dedicated button to let you switch between Main and Mini Player views, maybe be able to minimize the player from the context menu (right click > minimize to tray)


Just some humble opinions, my apologies if these already exist - thanks for all your hard time and work on MusicBee!

-Peter

[Sarge]

I believe all the above already exists.."right click" send to playlist does....and so does multiple libraries..not sure about the other.

[Steven]

with the current release you might also use filters rather than libraries. Filters can be set to permanently display on the left navigator.

for the dedicated button to switch between mini-player/ compact player/ main player i do plan to do that in the near term but need to figure out some stuff for how it would work in windows 7
you can double click on the bottom player panel (excluding the track info part of the panel) and it will open the mini-player

[peterpa]

Thanks for the reply, ill check out the filters and see if they do what i want.. although setting up multiple libraries how MusicBee manages them at the moment may suit me best

I've only been using MusicBee for about 2 weeks - the community and Stevens commitment to the project is amazing, thank you!