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datdude:


I see two playing now references, yet neither in this picture show the tracks playing. :P  The first playing now node is in between the audio tree and playlists tree.  Does this not look obviously out of place?

Something needs to be done to make this view more consistent and usefull.

Matt:
I don't get it.  Click "Playing Now" and you'll see what's playing.

datdude:
It is usable, I wil give you that.   

A new song plays. and the display view 'takes over'.  This creates extra clicks to get back to the other action items, and you can't view the library, display, and playing now tracks at the same time.  To me this seems like a great thing to have, but maybe not a lot of other users agree, and it simply is not worth changing?

My comment also, was that overall it simply looks confusing, especially if I was  a new user, and if I remember correctly, it took me a while to understand what referenced what in the tree/action view. 

You can close this if it deffinetly is not changing.  I can live with it obviously, it is not unusable, just thought it could be better. :)

GHammer:
I think I'd like Now Playing to be the top of the tree too.
It certainly gets pushed WAY down when I open the Audio section.

marko:
The more I use it, the more I dislike these expansion arrows on the right.

Pull the tree out, and the arrows move out too, and after expansion, all 'child expanders' are to the left.

I also do not like the way playing now gets moved down the window. It should always be in the same place. Where? I'm not sure...
Won't it fit on the top line to the left of Audio?

Then lock that top line right up there so that nothing else can replace it.

I really don't like the bolded text either...
compare mc11.1's tree...


with 12-29's...


Initially, I thought the new tabs were a neat trick, but now I see that the playing now node is plagued with the same problem that v11's 'library browser' node had. ie., it keeps jumping around in the tree window while we dig around in various locations.
New additions to the tree root are able to displace audio|image|video from the top row too which just makes it look unbalanced and silly. (please don't solve this by removing the option of adding root viewschemes ;) )

I'll persevere with it. But having just spent a fair bit of time with it, I came to vent my frustrations and found that datdude beat me to it :)

-marko.

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