Okay coupla things. Finally got the image slideshow to work once I understood what JimH was meaning
For those others like me who were unsure you need to go to Tools/Options/General and in the Behavior box set Jump on Play to Playing Now (always). This will stop it trying to run in full screen which is currently causing a crash (Meaning that Hairstyle will not work
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2nd thing - BUG: Don't think this has been mentioned If you add images to playing now and then music when you try to click on the Indivdual items it acts as if the pics aren't there and treats them as if they were the music files in playing order. Hope this makes sense. As an example I sent 4 pics to playing now and an album so the files where in the playing now window like so
IMG 1, IMG 2, IMG 3, IMG 4
MP3 1, MP3 2, MP3 3, MP3 4
etc...
when I clicked on IMG 1 it loaded up MP3 1 to play when I double clicked MP3 1 it loaded up MP3 5 etc as if the images were being ignored but this wasn't what was displayed....
This can be reproduced but has to be done in a specific order otherwise it crashes the program.
1. Right click an image album and click add to playing now. The album immediately starts playing as a slideshow.
2. Right click an audio album and click add to playing now. The tracks are added to the bottom of the files window after the images. The slide show stops but according to the transport it is still playing.
3. Now double click the first image file in the file list. It starts playing the first audio track.
4. Right click the image - it shows the image menu. SO MC still knows it is an image but for some reason when you double click it it thinks it is an audio file...
This is all done with the list view set to show indivdual cover art for each file.
Adam
UPDATE: If you click one of the files lower down the list e.g. beyond the length of the album it brings up the please select files to play dialog and hangs the soundcard which makes a horrid noise...
UPDATE 2: Sorry this is starting to turn into a thesis
If you toggle the list view to the next item (file list) the images are not in the list so obviously MC is not updating the screen when an audio album is added. DOes this mean you cannot set up an image album and then set the music you want behind it??
UPDATE 3: (Shoot me okay??) If you set the image album playing first then click play for the audio album (rather than Add to Playing Now) the slideshow carries on and the audio album starts playing. This is what I would have expected, however if you use add to playing now with the audio album it displays the above behaviour. If you then try to add a new image playlist however it crashes the program.
Hope this helps in some way
Adam