My good friend "enter".

[VX]

Have you set "Enter" as hotkey for "Play Now" in preferences? It works for me...

Yes, now it works for me too. Thanks mate  should I set it as global option or it's not recommended 

BTW. Is it possible to switch between the Left Sidebar, Main Panel and Right Sidebar with a hotkey  A 'Tab' maybe 

[ma_t14]

Yes, now it works for me too. Thanks mate  should I set it as global option or it's not recommended 

Absolutely not! That would mean as long as musicbee is open everywhere you might need to use enter outside of musicbee would still work as play now in musicbee

[greenday1987]

Seems to be working great for me too. Thanks alot Steven for your work yet again

[ksvane]

Now I just wish that hitting "enter" when a cover is selected in artwork view would open the album to show the tracks inside, instead of playing the album... still, hitting enter on a selected TRACK would start playback... similar to itunes behaviour.

[Steven]

itunes doesnt have hotkeys so they can change the meaning of any key depending on the context.
i will have a think about this

[ksvane]

it's similar to windows explorer, actually... hitting enter on a folder doesn't open the files inside the folder, it just opens the folder and shows you the files. I guess I think of the album covers in artwork view as folders, thus I don't expect any playback to start when I hit enter, I just expect a list of the tracks to show

[Steven]

hitting enter on a selected artwork picture already opens the list of albums, and now when Enter is assigned to a hotkey it will keep that behavior
http://www.mediafire.com/?3d49ujgeev91bl2

[ksvane]