I posted a problem, at least in my mind, in a topic. Glynor replied to it but that topic has now been locked so I can't reply there. I'm going to try and reproduce it here.
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If I have a set of songs in Playing Now and I am viewing through my library, I sometimes decide I want to hear a particular song right then. If I right-click and select Play, my Playing Now is erased and that one song is put in Playing Now. Instead of selecting Play, I could have gone through the nested menus to select Send To\Play\Add (play now) to hear that song without losing my Playing Now list, but it seems like the single Play should do the same thing.
The problem also appears, and is inconsistent with the song's Play, if I'm looking at my tag window with the Image window and I need to see how big that image really is. If I double-click on the Image it displays the image and erases Playing Now. However, if I select "Play / Show (first file)" for that image, it just displays the image without affecting Playing Now. The double-click should act like "Play / Show (first file)".
P.S. I know I can go find the Recent Playing Now, try to remember what song was selected at the moment I tried Play and add to Playing Now again. A lot of work just to hear one song.
Glynor's reply:I, personally, like it that Play works that way. Otherwise it'd be difficult to add a whole set of songs, TV shows, pictures, or other videos to Playing Now (while still specifying which particular file in a larger set should play first). Especially with video watching, but also when I want to play a specific song from one of my "mix" view schemes (with shuffle turned on), this is the desired behavior. When I'm manually building a playlist it isn't, but that's what the Send to --> Play --> Add to Playing Now (as next to play) is for (and then once you use it, it will show up at the top of MC's right-click menu for you). Choosing Play and double-clicking do the same thing.
You can change it's behavior though, so it's not a problem. Go to Options --> General --> Behavior --> Double Click. You can select:
- Replace Playing Now (all) - the default
- Replace Playing Now (single) - same as above but only adds the one file
- Add To Playing Now (to end) - keeps Playing now list intact and adds the selected file to the very end of the list
- Add To Playing Now (play now) - stops the current file from playing and plays the selected file but keeps the rest of the current list intact
- Add To Playing Now (play next) - same as above but waits for current file to end before playing the selected file
- File Properties - Pulls up the tag window
Also.... The "show" option is specific to images. Those are something of a special case, because they wanted you to be able to play a playlist of images in a slideshow without affecting the currently playing music. If music is not already playing, double clicking an image file will do a standard "play/double-click" command. If music is playing, the images are instead added to the special "image slideshow" visualization, which maintains it's own playlist.
Generally in MC the terminology used regarding Playing Now's list is:
- Play - replaces the current playing now with what is selected
- Add - keeps the current playing now list intact