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[skeeterfood]

My biggest beefs:
1) Right-Clicking on a song in the Action Window Playing Now view hides the useful menu items under the List entry (I've never once wanted to make the AW a window by right-clicking on a song, icon, ...).  Please remove the current top-level menu and move the menus under List to the root.

2) There is no easy way to rate the currently playing song without showing Playing Now.  It really should be in the right-click menus for the Action Window Playing Now view and the SysTray icon.  It would be really cool if it was somehow shown and editable in the currently playing song's info next to the transport controls.  Heck while I'm at it, can the ratings be shown and editable in mini-me?

3) The current Right-click menu for AW icons is useless.  Please add some useful functions.

4) Bring back the AW home button.

5) Add an Icon for Show as Window to the AW.  Reuse the one from the Display part of Playing Now .

6) Editing smartlist rules longer than the window is wide is a real pain.

-John

[HeavyPet@Work]

(again here not a 9.1 releasability post, but following on a tangent to this thread...)

My 2 cents...

[..]

I also agree with the right click posts.  I use it as much as possible in every application I can.  In fact an application that doesn't do a good job of making the right-click menu context sensitive feels incomplete.  

I use it as a learning tool as well.  When I'm not sure what something is or what I can do with it, I always right-click to see what its primary uses are.

As always thanks to JRiver for listening to their dedicated (but picky) users!!!

Spot-on point, bjsolem, and well said.  Right-click menu as both "easy access" and "learning tool as to what are commonly performed actions on this object", indeed.  One leads to the other, and I think a well-designed set of context-menus outpaces even a thorough Help system at least in the first-learning stages.  [though gods all know we do appreciate an extensive help system!  It's not our first impulse to stop what we're doing and send appreciative email to the docs writers when we immediately find what we're looking for via Help: we plough on with what we were doing.  Here's a little shout out to docs/helpsystems/writers here, in case I forget later        ]

[fretwalker]

- Agreeing in all points to all the others I still miss the possibility to watch an avi or whatever movie being NOT streched to the whole window - instead I'd like it in it's original size (or maby call it 100% but that's no question of aspect ratio), a simple function every media-player has...
- Also I'm still not able to play real-media streams...
- And the last point: Once I registred real-media filetypes through MC it's not possible to revert this: every install, no matter what I click in the corresponding window, even if I delete the whole MC-registry tree...it's associated again and again...

Meanwhile I recommended MC to a couple of friends who bought it finally and now they're asking me why there are so less video & DVD-watching features (sizing, bookmarks, start-where-I-stopped-function, etc) in this 'BEST Jukebox around', even in the expensive PLUS-Version so that they still have to use another app for some minor functions - and I really have no answer for them...
A year or something ago I asked friendly for some right-click options (right-click any file -> play album, play artist) and I've been told to wait for the next version...but now I'm tired to ask when I see your priorities in developement - fundamental visual changes, a space-eating playerbar but what about the little things?
Anyway, I love MC not getting tired of hoping...

Regards, Eric

[Quisp]

I think this has been brought up before and I doubt anything will be done for 9.1 but, I've got a very large collection of music, which is why I use MC. However, the current way that the Action window, properties and Tagging mode work is insanely slow. When tagging, I frequently need to apply multiple tags to multiple files, it can easily take over a minute to apply a few sub-genres to an artist since it applies the changes to each song for each check.

Additionally, when cleaning things up and making multiple changes in the Action window, the same thing happens. An apply button would be extremely useful. These areas are basically forms, if I created a Web site that submitted the form with every tab to a new field, I'd be in trouble. If focus is changed during an edit, put up a save changes message, this occurs elsewhere within the interface so it isn't new, nor impossible to trap for...

[JimH]

Quisp,
Can you start a new thread on that and explain how you are tagging?  There may be a better way.

Jim

[jleerigby]

Also, someone mentioned how when you click on a file to play it, everything else in Playing Now is erased, and the entire list of files in that folder or smartlist you're looking at is added instead.  I don't like that either.

I too have always thought this must be very confusing to new users.  I'm used to it now but my friends are not.  In MC, Play means replace playing now.  If you want to add to playing now you have to select Add To Playing Now.  I (and I think many newbies) would expect Play to simply Add to Playing Now.  I accept that it's too late to change this at this late stage but I think the terminology used and the default behaviour should be closely examined for 10.  

For 9.1 I think that the solution is that the following toolbar buttons should be available and enabled (with text) as default for new installations:

Add to Playing Now
Clear Playing Now
Replace Playing Now

The other stuff like Add as next to play could be added through user customisation.

[knickelfarz]

When listening to web radio, Playing Now's Track Info does not refresh when a new song starts. It's sticked to the page that is loaded when you start listening to the station.

So in Hairstyle / Windowed / Full Screen mode, the bride seems to be too shy to share her knowledge...