I was playing around today in MC trying to set it up and see just how powerful I could get it.
One thing I discovered is that it has tons of powerful features that let me set things up great.
Day to day I usually use tabs -they're great for multiple view schemes to easily switch between them and I'd never really tried much else.
Right now I'm ripping some tracks then listening to them after I've ripped the album while I'm ripping the next. Its great having a split vertical view scheme. I have the currently ripping track showing as well as playing now - nice tidy little view.
One thing thats a bit annoying though is having to then go back and change the view scheme to tabs etc. etc.
One thing that'd give MC insanely huge amounts of power for 'power users' and anyone who just likes to get fancy would be if we could do the following:
1) Configure 'view settings' per view scheme. We could really tweak the layout then depending on the type of thing we wanted to see and view schemes would be all about storing these view layouts so to speak. So for any given view scheme we could set it to use tabs - I'd use this for my library for browsing or split vertical, or split horizontal, etc, etc.
I'm not quite sure exactly how you'd do the above because you also obviously want to be able to have different view schemes that you can click on to change whats displaying in the current tab/pane/etc.
Possibly just have a check box, that is disabled by default, that says 'also remember page layout' or something. Then it'd be up to us to mix and match different ones that controled the view/layout of the screen and the content/panes in it etc.
This would be HUGELY powerful and a totally incredible feature that I'd imagine would be possible to add
2) (this might be a lot harder to do) - Allow us to mix tabs and split views etc. Right now with my split vertical screens its great to have playing now open and my library to the side of it. An even better use would be if I used it to have a full page playlist or something showing to the right and then my library to the left. If we could then open up tabs inside each of these splits it would be WOW. I could have say 3 playlists open and be browsing through my library and super easily drag files into the playlists, drag them to the position I want in the playlist and then release it (hover with the dragged files over the tab to switch to that playlist then just drag it up and down as appropriate).
Widescreen monitors are becoming more and more common and monitor sizes continue to grow and large monitors these days are not at all uncommon. My 22" widescreen cost me less than $400.
With these size widescreen monitors the amount of info we can get on the screen is potentially huge!
This is what I currently have in MC:
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7774/mc1vf8.jpgThis is what I'm suggesting:
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/746/mc2fv9.jpgIts power is mind boggling