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You may be able to just go back to the first view by using the left arrow at the top of the content window.

I often queue up an evening's worth of music from various albums, but then inadverdently double click on some file which nukes the queue and plays the track just clicked.  It would be nice to be able to undo that and restore the previous "playing now" queue.

Maybe there's already a way to do that, but I haven't found it.

Alternatively, if there was an option to disable "double click on a file to play" and only use the right click context menu to play that would work.

Perhaps not as elegant as an expression, but this is an approach I use a fair amount when I want to compare to values, and it works quite well.

Activate a view where all files are shown in a detailed list. Add columns for Initial Key and Grouping, then click on either of the column headers to sort by that field. You can then easily see which fields do not match in the unsorted column. You can use search wizard to set various rules/modifiers to further limit the number of files shown (e.g., a rule to exclude files with empty values for either of those fields).

I used Handbrake to deinterlace some old TV shows from DVD. Most of them were originally shot on film with a frame rate of 23.976 and the conversion was seamless. However I have one in particular that is behaving a little differently.

The source file indicates that it is variable frame rate but still very close to 24 FPS. The converted file shows 23.976 in the metadata and that same information is displayed by VLC (perhaps just forwarding some static data). When I display the file on my projector the final frame rate is effectively 60 FPS. The diagnostic information displayed with Ctrl-J shows only a few dropped frames and the picture is stable. What is causing the file to be displayed this way?

music would stop as soon as the workstation's monitors went to sleep

Windows EDID strikes again.

Basically when Windows detects that one of the connected "monitors" shuts off, or the input on the AVR/TV changes etc, playback stops or Windows "moves/resizes" apps/video, and even desktop icons.

The fix is to trick Windows into thinking that the monitor stays connected. I've heard that Windows 11 supposedly has this option, but I run Win 10. Some GPU's have EDID override to get around this, like nvidia Quadro or some newer Intel NUC's. But if your GPU/driver does not, the BEST way to trick Windows is an external hdmi hardware EDID device.

I tried many - several active hdmi switches, "monitor detect killer" (pin 19), 4k HD Fury, but the only one that provides ZERO problems ended up being: https://atlona.com/product/at-etu-sync/ (can be found on eBay for less than $50)

Is there a way when syncing to a handheld mount point to alter the artist name metadata to either not use or suffix any prefixing articles?  Like "The Clash" as "Clash, The"?

Leave the artist field as-in in the database, just alter it on the handheld location. 

Or if not changing the contents of a field, the swapping of another?  Use another field in place of artist, and use the article functions to copy the appropriate values in it?

It's a bit of an edge case, I'll grant you, but some car radio head units are worse than others when it comes to sorting and browsing.

Or maybe you have an old video card around?

I suspect that the AV capability of my workstation is provided by my RTX 3070 and there is no alternative AV source from my combination of Gigabyte B550 Vision D-P motherboard and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor. If true, that would explain why my USB to HDMI adapter is not working.

Your other suggestion of using a spare video card might do the job, though won't older cards fail to handle newer audio codecs?

Like this?
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Multi-Display-Converter-Projector-Chromebook/dp/B087PD9KSZ/

I had already tried a similar solution last night before raising my post this morning (using an adapter I bought to provide an HDMI output for my Dell XPS 15, which only has USB-C outputs), but my normal MC32 audio device of DENON-AVRHD (NVIDIA High Definition Audio) [WASAPI] was no longer available and I had to change my Output Format setting of 5.1 channels to Source number of channels before MC would start to play some music - though this was not a positive result, as my AV amp did not receive any audio signal.

The key problem is that Windows Playback settings show that my DENON-AVRHD device is not plugged in when using this USB to HDMI adapter.

Can you give some examples of the content of those fields and what you would like the final result to be?

Like this?
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Multi-Display-Converter-Projector-Chromebook/dp/B087PD9KSZ/

Or maybe you have an old video card around?