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[Abbra Cadabra]

 ?  confused

I Right-click a track in Playing Now view and select: LOCATE: Artist

sometimes it goes to the main library view and all is well, other times . . . it goes to some other library view, often a limited view showing only recent imports and thus does not serve the purpose. I do not see a pattern as to which view it chooses.

How do I set MC so this function ALWAYS goes to my main library view (which is top-most view in the tree) and not some other view? Deleting the other views would be the sledge-hammer approach, I prefer something with more finesse.

Thanks

[Matt]

For me it goes to whatever my last Audio view was and does a search.  This seems reasonable since we pick the view you used last.

[Abbra Cadabra]

Hi Matt,
That is the behavior I had anticipated, so I closed the tab with view "Imported last 7 Days" and clicked around a bit in my main view tab before returning to the Playing Now tab to try this again . . .

Right-click track, select LOCATE: Artist and boom it goes right back to "Imported last 7 Days" once again even though it had not been open or the last one used.   So, I dunno ?

[Matt]

Try using just one tab.  It might be tab specific.

[Abbra Cadabra]

Try using just one tab.  It might be tab specific.

That seems to be the key, but it is not bulletproof.
If I click back and forth between PN and the Main view LOCATE-Artist works as expected. But if I work in other tabs and then return to PN and try LOCATE-Artist it may go to the view last used in the other tab. So, it is workable, but.

[blgentry]

These mild inconsistencies in the Locate function as well as the clickable links in columns are the reason that I no longer use either feature.  MC is so good at letting me find things quickly in various views that I kind of have no "real" use for Locate or linkable columns.  I can just go to Albums, or Files, or Artists and relatively quickly find what I want with a few clicks and/or a word or two in the search box.

I think the use case for these features is pretty narrow.

JUST my opinion.

Brian.