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More => Old Versions => Media Center 13 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: gt93grad on January 11, 2009, 12:17:35 pm
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In my old jukebox software, I can build a queue on the fly. So I can click an REM song, a Travis Tritt song, and a Ozzy Osbourne song, and it will show all 3 at the bottom of the screen (a queue) and play them in that order. I can load up a queue with as many songs as I want instead of playing one album/song at a time. Can this software do this somehow?
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Yes. Actually, MC provides several different ways to do what you want and more.
Here's a way:
Right-click the track and select "Add to Playing Now" or "More Play Options > ..."
In MC "Playing Now" is the playback queue you are talking about. You can use the Tabs feature and open a new tab for Playing Now so that you can quickly switch between a library view and the Playing Now view. If you want to see these two views side by side you can use the Split view feature (View > Split View > Show 2 Views). You can also add a shortcut button for Playing Now to the top or bottom toolbar (right-click the toolbar to customize it).
If you want to assign double-click to a certain play function you can change the behavior in Tools > Options > General > Behavior. I have set it to "Add to Playing Now (to end)". If I want to quickly play just the selected track I use "right-click > Play". In addition, I have set MC to not use one of the "Jump on play" options when the play command is issued so that I can easily continue browsing the library in the current location.
As I said, MC has several other related features and options that you might find useful. This is just for starters.
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Wow, thanks Alex. I didn't ask the original question, but your answer solved many an issue and some things that weren't even issues. :)
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I'll give that a shot. Am I correct that in the 3D view, you can't "Add to Playing Now"? It looks like in the 3D view, you can only play a song or CD, but not add to a playlist or "playing now". I wonder why not...