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In some ways you could say the loading of the "Track + Album Info" page every time a new track starts was "By Design" but can be altered/changed by the Individual User.
Unlike most Structured Languages, like the ones MC uses, the User via a "settings panel" can control which "View" is to be shown on startup.
But for Browser and Browser Engines the "Name Of The First Page To Be Loaded" has to be "index.html"
Unlike with Skins and Views every time a New Track starts playing, or if you switch TrackInfo Plugins, the page named "index.html" will always be the one that gets displayed first.
For all except the Lyrics Only Variants of my TrackInfo Plugins it is the Track + Album Info Page that is named index.html
In the Lyrics Only Variants it is the Lyrics in 2 Colums with a Horizontal Scrollbar Page that is named index.html
Wilst changing which page gets loaded first is relatively easy it should be carried out very carefully as the same changes have to be made in evey HTML file that Variant Uses.
In the Lyrics Only Variants there are 4 HTML files in all the Other Variants there are 9 of them.
And, because Menu/NavBar has the Refresh Option/Button, in one of those HTML files one of the HTML filenames to be changed will occur twice.
Any changes made to a plugin that uses any combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript should only be made to a copy of that plugin placed somewhere like the Documents Folder.
And should really only be done using a proper/advanced editor like Notepad++.
N.B. Unlike Skins where the folder name can be anything you like because the Skin Name, the thing MC uses to identify it, is set by the user/creator in the main.xml file; but for TrackInfo Plugins it is the Folder Name that gets used.
The 1st Action should be to Amend the Name of the Plugins Folder because the only way to test your new version is to Copy that Folder back to the Relevant MC Folder and if it has the same name as the Original it will Overwrite it.
Next you have to decide which page you want to be the one that gets loaded 1st and a suitable name for the "Track + Album Info" page
The quickest way of finding out the names of all the HTML files the installed version is using is to open 1 of the HTML files in Notepad++
The HTML file names are in the topnav section that starts at Line 25 and ends at Line 46 and are everything between href="TRACKINFO_OPENPAGE_ and ">
Let's assume you want the "Lyrics in 2 Colums with a Horizontal Scrollbar" is the one you want as the 1st page to load and that you want to name the "Track + Album Info" page trackalbum.html.
The 1st edit you need to do is replace every occurrence of index.html with the New Name you want to assign to the "Track + Album Info" page, i.e. trackalbum.html.
Then you replace every occurrence of the file name of the Page you want to be the first to load, including the .html extension, with index.html
One nice thing about Notepad++ is that if you have all the HTML files the plugin uses open in Notepad++ you can tell it to Replace index.html with trackalbum.html in All Open Documents.
P.S. - Don't forget to tell the editor to Save every HTML file you edit/modify because if you forget you will end up with unmodified files in your folder
Then in windows explorer rename index.html to the new name you used when editing the HTML files, i.e. trackalbum.html.
Then rename the File for the Page you now want as the 1st one to get loaded to index.html.
Finally copy the Folder your modified version is in to the relevant MC Folder and start testing it in MC.
If you need to go back and make any changes to your modified version you don't have to rename the folder the modified version is in.
Once you have finished your edits when you copy it to the relevant MC Folder the "corrected" version will replace/overwrite the "eroneous" one.
NOTE - If you overwrite and existing TrackInfo Plugin with a New/Edited Version and MC is using that Plugin the New Version will not get used until the Next Track Starts Playing.
If you want to see what effect your changes have while the current track is playing made simply switch to another TrackInfo Plugin and then Back to the one you want to use/test.
If you, or anybody else, wanted to you can even change the order of the Options on the Menu/Navbar, making sure you make exactly the same changes in every HTML file the Plugin Uses.
Whilst I would prefer not to spend time and energy creating and testing "1 off Customised Versions" of my Plugins if you find the above too daunting then send me an email stating which "Page" you would prefer to be the one that gets loaded first and which Plugin, or Plugins, you would like those changes made in I will make those changes and send you the Modified Plugins.
You will find my email address in the comments section at the top of every file each plugin variant uses.
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