Yeah, but if I right click on a file in Standard View and choose Play, MC plays that file and that's it. It doesn't play that file and every file around it. Theater View breaks this convention. If I open the menu on a file in Theater View and choose "Add", MC adds that one file. But if I choose "Play", then it plays that file and every other file in that list. It doesn't make any sense at all, and it's really confusing for people to figure out who haven't spent as much time with it as we have.
Right, but if you double click
or hit enter on a song, it does add the entire list when in standard view. At least the default configuration of MC does. Standard View works exactly like Theater View using the default
Options --> General --> Double Click settings. You may have changed yours, but the default is Replace Playing Now (all). I wouldn't disagree at all if you were just asking that choosing "Play" from the Menu list in Theater View would only add one song. Enter though should be treated as a double click.
Typically, everywhere else in Windows, Enter does the same thing as a Double Click. I think most people would feel just the opposite. I think it would be confusing to have it the other way...
I would agree with, and I think it would solve our disagreement if MC just honored the Options --> General --> Double Click setting when in Theater View. Reasonable people can disagree on the way things should work.
Oh and...
You can't just go to Playing Now and manually choose where to start from there?
No. I'd rather
you just use Standard View to build your lists.
(You have to admit, that would be a fairly rediculous workaround, when the current way just works -- and is the way it's worked all along.)
I agree with Richard above. This thread was originally about the new TV navigation and I think as it stands today, the new nav changes have made the whole thing less intuitive especially for new users.
I also don't understand how the old way was any different....
Selecting Play in Theater View the old way worked exactly as Enter does now. The only change was that Enter now does the Play action, and the Menu key brings up the menu (to get what you want, you'd have to have used
Add in Theater View with MC11). I think this "new" way makes
more sense, as it works the same way in Standard View (enter is treated as a double click, and the menu key or right click brings up the menu).
The difference is, I guess, raym and doof don't have a right-click/menu key assigned on their remotes. I do, so I don't care (and I like it better this way because it's far fewer "clicks" to get where I want).
I certainly (and quite stongly) think that having double-click/enter do one thing in Standard View, and another thing entirely in Theater View, would be more confusing to new users, not less. It would help users build playlists, but that's about it. I think building a playlist on the fly is the "more advanced use." Simply navigating to an album, selecting the song you want to hear, hitting enter to play it, and expecting that when the song ends, the next one will start (assuming shuffle isn't turned on) is
normal. That's the way every computer music player app I've ever used in my life (including iTunes, WiMP, and MC) works. You certainly wouldn't expect the music to stop, or to hear the same song over again....
The solution is simple. Just have it obey the double click settings (or give it it's own -- though I know they hate adding new options). Then you can have it do what you want, and I can have it do what I want.