I think the main reason I like the panes is that they don't kick everything else off the screen like the trees do. Click-and-scroll everytime I switch between Playing Now, Media Library, and Playlists gets tedious. With the Panes, they all stay on the screen. The re-addition of the trees undoes that benefit, so I agree with others on the need to opt out of trees.
Location does not work well with Panes. I agree with others that you need trees to view Location.
I like the ability to see playlists in a pane. Problems: Currently, if anything is selected in the Playlist pane, even <all>, the song list is filtered down to only songs that happen to be on some Playlist. Also, you can't see individual playlists that are not in a playlist group. You can't see any Smartlists either. And switching between groups is a bit difficult now, having to click on Column Properties.
MC/MJ has always had a delay between selecting a node and updating the screen (at least with my library and PC). There should be something that visually indicates that it's "thinking" as most apps do.
Trying to click and drag a Smartlist into a Playlist group without firmly "grabbing" it (where you get either a small gray box or a black circle with a line through it) freezes MC for a couple of minutes.
Placing the cursor on the bottom edge of the toolbar brings up tooltips for both the tool and the player window. There are also spots to the right of the player window that brings up tooltips for either the position or the song, but I haven't bothered to figure out the logic.
I just discovered windowed mode for Properties with "Always on Top." Wonderful. Should be default IMO. And since you can move the window wherever you want, perhaps this would satisfy those who want to see Properties on the right. Can you make the window always on top of MC9, but not on top of all windows?
A lot of comments on the entire Properties section:
- The labels are confusing. In windowed mode, the window is titled "Track Info." Why not "Properties"?
- "File Info" describes one of the five screens in Properties. "File Info" also describes one of the six sections within File Info itself.
- Clicking on Properties will bring up the last viewed section. If playlists were the last section viewed, clicking on Properties brings up Playlists, which will confuse the user who is looking for basic artist and name info.
- In windowed mode, you've got two X buttons to close it.
- You've got two ways of navigating through the five screens (the menu and the right/left arrows) right next to each other. Confusing. Please remove the right/left arrows.
- The auto-hide is annoying.
- Should be black on white text like the rest of MC to be easier to read.
- The section titles within Properties need to be more distinct. Bold, or maybe different color background
- If the entire left navigation pane is closed, selecting Properties for a song does nothing.
I wish you could remove all the right/left arrows in the program, including Properties, Visualizations and Playlists. There's nothing telling you what variable you're changing before you change it. All you see is the current value. And there's already a short-cut menu. And btw, the short-cut menu should be pop up with a right-click and not a left click. Thanks.
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