Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[dcwebman]

Let's say I have the Playlists menu open and am nested in a few child items. If I close the Playlists tree by clicking the Playlists down arrow, if I open up Playlists again, the tree has been collapsed again and I have to work my way down the tree again to find out where I was. I have Auto Expand turned off. The tree should be remembered when opening the Playlists again.

--------------

There is no way to find out what size cover images are to determine if you want to find better ones elsewhere. It would be nice to have the File Size and Dimensions displayed just as if the image was imported and you were looking at that by itself. Right now if you hover over the cover art you get a tooltip of the filename. In the simplest solution, add a second line of the tooltip with this information like: 300x298 - 17.5KB. Another solution is to add a header or footer in the Image window with the information of the image name and dimensions.

--------------

It would be nice if the Help button like in Options actually opened Help for that page. Trying to dig through the help for the page you're asking for help on is really difficult. But I'm sure that will come as in most programming, documentation is last.

--------------

Remember Right Click Commands on menus between closing and opening MC.

--------------

Adding a new User Library field still has the Category drop down. This was used in MC 11 in the tag window. Is this still needed in MC 12?

--------------

In the Library & Folders Options for Fix broken links, there is Yes and Yes (leave network files). What exactly does the leave network files mean?

[lalittle]

There is no way to find out what size cover images are to determine if you want to find better ones elsewhere. It would be nice to have the File Size and Dimensions displayed just as if the image was imported and you were looking at that by itself. Right now if you hover over the cover art you get a tooltip of the filename. In the simplest solution, add a second line of the tooltip with this information like: 300x298 - 17.5KB. Another solution is to add a header or footer in the Image window with the information of the image name and dimensions.

I agree, and I would love to see a more robust system for selecting album art when it's available -- i.e. an actual display of the art, along with it's properties, at which point we can choose to replace the existing art or not.  At the moment, I don't bother letting MC look for "better" art since I have no control over it, and may end up with art that's WORSE than what I currently have.

Remember Right Click Commands on menus between closing and opening MC.

This would be very useful.  There are certain commands that I use all the time, and every time I restart MC I have to fish for them again the first time I use them.

Adding a new User Library field still has the Category drop down. This was used in MC 11 in the tag window. Is this still needed in MC 12?

I was wondering about this as well.  I figured that this was a holdover from MC11 that will remain until they're absolutely sure that these categories won't be used anymore.

In the Library & Folders Options for Fix broken links, there is Yes and Yes (leave network files). What exactly does the leave network files mean?

I'd like to know this also.

To add to this, I'd like to see the Tagging fixed so that when you define "Values" in the "Configure Library Field" box, you are offered all these choices when you edit the tag (even if no file has been tagged with these values yet.)  At the moment, when you first set up a "List" field with specific values defined, you are given a blank window when you edit this tag rather than a list of the available checkboxes based on the values you defined.  MC12 used to offer these choices, and MC11 still does when setting up the same thing.

Thanks,

Larry

[glynor]

Remember Right Click Commands on menus between closing and opening MC.

Yes please!!!

[glynor]

In the Library & Folders Options for Fix broken links, there is Yes and Yes (leave network files). What exactly does the leave network files mean?

This means that MC will not remove or fix files that are broken if they live on a network drive.  This is useful because if a network drive happens to go down (because you rebooted the other machine or kicked it's power cord out or something, or maybe your network is wireless or just otherwise flaky), and Otto is running in the background, it would quickly and efficiently remove all those files because they no longer exist.  Bad news.

If the files are local though, it keeps fixing/removing away!

[lalittle]

Thanks glynor -- that makes sense.

Larry

[dcwebman]

Yes thanks glynor for the explanation. I hope MC treats a mapped network drive and a UNC network drive as the same.

All my media is on a network drive so I would want the "leave network files" option, but I guess occasionally I should set it to Yes and run it manually.

[dcwebman]

I just realized something about the remembering Right Click Commands. Occasionally you're going to select a menu command that you rarely use and that will be remembered and might not want to see again, and eventually you could have the whole submenu remembered.  There needs to be an option then to clear out the remembered Right Click Commands.

[lalittle]

I just realized something about the remembering Right Click Commands. Occasionally you're going to select a menu command that you rarely use and that will be remembered and might not want to see again, and eventually you could have the whole submenu remembered.  There needs to be an option then to clear out the remembered Right Click Commands.

But if you continue to use OTHER commands, the one that you don't use very often will simply be pushed off the list (first on, first off) as soon as you use more than the number of commands defined in the options.

Larry

[dcwebman]

But if you continue to use OTHER commands, the one that you don't use very often will simply be pushed off the list (first on, first off) as soon as you use more than the number of commands defined in the options.

That's true, depending if you ever get over the count limit.

[glynor]

That's true, depending if you ever get over the count limit.

Right.  That's why I keep my count limit set relatively low (5 usually).  It's only annoying to see those there for a little while.

Besides, if they designed it to persist, it's very likely that they'd just save the Most Recent Command list somewhere in the HKCU/Software/JRiver/ key in the registry.  It'd be a simple matter to write a script that would clear that list if it really bothered you (and I'd be happy to write the script for you if they agree to have the MRC list persist).

[glynor]

All my media is on a network drive so I would want the "leave network files" option, but I guess occasionally I should set it to Yes and run it manually.

It does.

I too turn the option to "Yes" every so often, after carefully checking that all my network drives are available, and then run a manual "Check Folders Now" import, in order to clear out the broken junk.

Another method is to construct a view scheme that displays only the broken files, and then manually remove them.

[rjm]

Remember Right Click Commands on menus between closing and opening MC.

Excellent suggestion!