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Title: Unable To Customize Recently Imported Columns
Post by: Jamil on January 03, 2021, 10:00:18 am
I change all of my playlist views to have the following columns in this order:


Changing a view once keeps my changes for every launch later except for Recently Imported playlist view.  All my changes get lost and revert to something hard-coded in the code base.

Can this please be fixed?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Unable To Customize Recently Imported Columns
Post by: wer on January 03, 2021, 12:27:15 pm
Make yourself a new playlist with the same parameters, and your changes will persist.
I have multiple Recently Imported lists to facilitate columns for different media types.
Title: Re: Unable To Customize Recently Imported Columns
Post by: Jamil on January 03, 2021, 01:22:25 pm
Make yourself a new playlist with the same parameters, and your changes will persist.
I have multiple Recently Imported lists to facilitate columns for different media types.

Thanks for your work-around, but I am asking JRiver to fix this issue.

JRiver -- can you please fix this?
Title: Re: Unable To Customize Recently Imported Columns
Post by: wer on January 03, 2021, 01:33:53 pm
I don't think it's an "issue" that needs fixing. 

There are so many users who claim "I can't find the files I just imported" that I think it's a good thing they cannot permanently alter (or mess up) the Recently Imported smartlist, as that would cause further confusion.  Changing this would be unnecessary and deleterious.

So I for one would not be in favor or any such changes, especially when personal customization is already available by making one's own smartlists.

You're welcome.
Title: Re: Unable To Customize Recently Imported Columns
Post by: Jamil on January 03, 2021, 01:38:27 pm
You're welcome.

Why what you just wrote is not fully thought out:

As I previously posted originally, I am able to modify colums for:

Playing Now
Recently Played
Recently Modified

and several other built-in play lists.  It appears that Recently Imported was simply missed.  Your rationale does not make sense, since I am able to alter columns for everything else and nothing has been broken by me.

This is a bug.
Title: Re: Unable To Customize Recently Imported Columns
Post by: wer on January 03, 2021, 02:09:38 pm
You're funny. There's a big difference, but you don't recognize it. Bye.
Title: Re: Unable To Customize Recently Imported Columns
Post by: Jamil on January 03, 2021, 02:44:33 pm
You're funny. There's a big difference, but you don't recognize it. Bye.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

I did find a solution to this issue, and I can now start MC27.0.43 with Recently Imported displaying all columns I previously defined at startup.

My solution involves defining preferred columns you want defined:

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/f0unxib9ehwc014/mc27_preset.png)

I set Recently Imported to use this preset.  After doing this, I may close MC27 then restart it to make use of this same preset displaying all columns I wish to see.  This works perfectly.

What does not work is simply attempting to modify the columns for Recently Imported without using a preset.  If you attempt this, all changes are lost when you close MC27.

The solution is to use a preset instead of directly altering the columns.