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blgentry:
Hi David,

What you are describing doesn't sound normal.  Any time you change to a new view, or new playlist, etc, the forward and backward arrows to the left of the tabs *should* work.  You should easily be able to click the back arrow there and be taken back to the view you were just in.  It's rather small and located to the left of the leftmost tab.

Speaking of tabs, you might want to open 2, 3, 4, or more tabs and work within them.  I do this frequently for browsing different kinds of media:  Albums in one tab, TV shows in another.

Or, as was already mentioned, using a split view might work well for you:  View > Split View
Once you split to two views, you can move the divider back and forth if you'd like to customize your splits a bit.

Sometimes I use split views when building playlists; it makes things a bit easier.  Another good way to build playlists is to use the right click menu with Send to > Playlist > your_playlist_name .  After you do this once, that playlist name will then be at the very top of the right click menu, which makes it nice and fast to add new songs to the playlist.

I'm only mentioning all of this other stuff to try to help you streamline your process if you'd like.  The real issue is that the forward and back arrows don't seem to work for you, or they are not visible for some reason.  Can you see the arrow keys?

Brian.

David353:
Thanks guys for the information.

I am already using split views.

Middle-click works a charm.  The only thing is that my laptop alone doesn't seem to offer middle-click (though my mouse provides it).  ** Maybe the development team could make Alt-Click do the same thing, unless Alt-click is used for something else? **

bigentry, you are right.  For some reason I THOUGHT that the back arrow wasn't doing its job.  Either it was a momentary problem,  or I was mistaken itself.  Yes, it does work.  I really appreciate the tip about right-clicking to add files to a playlist!  I forsee myself using it regularly.

OK,  the situation is now MUCH more workable.  The back-arrow helps. Things still aren't perfect however, because that back-arrow gets me back to where I want, but 'clutters' that tab a bit.  It's not a serious problem, but I don't like it.  But maybe there is a way around it.

Let me explain.   In my tab I'm looking at playlist A.    While I browse and click,  playlist B is shown  and playlist A is now hidden,  conceptually to the LEFT of B in this tab   (yes a tab actually contains a CHAIN of views, only one of which is shown at one time.  There are two in the chain right now).  I click again and C becomes the end of the chain and visible, with A and B to the left and hidden.

I can back-arrow through the tab, back from C to B, back from B to A.  Now I can forward-arrow again -- now there is 'clutter' in this tab.  I don't WANT C and B in this tab.   They are just temporary artifacts of my navigation which I don't want to stay in the scene, causing clutter. I don't want this chain.  How can I clean it up?

It seems to me that the ideal functionality is to remove the current 'link' so to speak, in the chain of the tab.  However, the X button kills the whole tab.  What if Ctrl- X-button  did exactly what I said?  Wouldn't this be nice and clean?

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