what i would like is some way of getting easily from album thumbnails to a page where i have details of all the tracks on the album that i chose from the album thumbnails page. ideally i would like a 'details' list where i can then edit tag info, such as rating tracks, etc.
You can rate tracks in playing now. or after u right click locate...click the tracks u want to edit, F2 and ur in Edit mode. Personally i prefer rating tracks as i hear them in playing now.
For extra bonus, if u notice that the album name needs correcting, click the item, then F2. Escape, Select all album tracks , then F2, make edit, hit return and watch it update all album tags in the selection in one go.
This is the manual way of activating tagging mode and can be used when mass tagging is desired.
having said this if it was possible to go from an album thumbnails smartlist page to playing now PAGE with a double click that would be some progress!
You can go from anywhere in MC to playing now with CTRL+2, to return to where you were, backspace as previously said. to go forward alt+->
it would also be nice to have a large image of the cover art on this details page (as in playing now). the trouble with the playing now page is that when you delete tracks from it, you only delete them from playing now and not from the hard drive, which i tend to want to do quite often.
Not removing tracks from the hard drive when in Playing now is a *good thing*.
If you want to remove them from the HD, from playing now, right click the track->locate album, if you delete from there, you're offered a choice whether to remove from library, HD, or both. IF you make a mistake, the tracks should be in trash, so you can easily restore, of course you would have to reimport into the library.
Works for me.