9. NEW: "Links" included in view header of any view with files.
Spent some time playing with this, and I really like it. Great, simple new feature. I
love how it handles playing videos from YouTube right in the player. Very slick. I also noticed Right-Click --> Links --> Manage Links (currently grayed out). I'm intrigued, to say the least! I played with it on both Audio and Video files (didn't see anything available on Images). Great pre-set choices.
I have seen two random error messages when using it (dialog that offers Debug or Cancel), and then actual empty "Pop-Up Windows". Unfortunately, I didn't capture these (they weren't super helpful though, just referencing a script error and a line number). These both happened with files with weird [Name] tags: "Done with AutoMKV 0.80a
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=854221" and similar (my MC13 library isn't very well tagged because I'm keeping it at the defaults mostly and just auto-importing a subset of my files).
Otherwise, I only have a couple of tiny little things I'd suggest:
- Option to open Links in a New Tab would be super-swell! I looked around but if it was already in there you put it somewhere I didn't think to look.
- It'd be great if it was smart enough to recognize search queries that end in ", The" or ", A", etc and trim that portion off when it performs the search. I enter all my Artist names in that way (I know MC can ignore articles, but other players can't so I keep them stored that way). As is, when I select a song by "Apples in Stereo, the" and hit the Wiki link, I get the Wikipedia "No Page Matches" result. The proper result is usually right there to click on in the suggestions, so it isn't a huge deal, but it would be slick if it automatically trimmed those extra articles off for you.
- Along those same lines, in a text-input field in an internal-browser window the Backspace key still does the Back command when you have multiple characters selected. So, if I select "Apples in Stereo, the" and hit the Wiki link, it takes me to the Wikipedia "no article matches" screen with the search bar. If I then highlight the ", the" part of the search and hit Backspace (as you would in any web browser), instead of deleting the text, MC goes "Back" a page (back to the file listing in this case). If I want to actually use the Search box to search for something else, it works as long as I don't try to select some characters and hit backspace (backspacing normally one character at a time works fine).
- For Google Images (and all supported image "playback") it'd be great if one of the options presented in the Popup Dialog was Copy File to Clipboard. I use Google Image Search all the time to find cover art. In Firefox/IE, when I find a cover art file I like, I usually just right click and choose Copy, and then find the files in MC and do right-click --> Cover Art --> Paste from Clipboard. It'd be even nicer to do this right through MC.
- For Videos... For most of my TV Shows, sending the [Name] tag to IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes isn't going to be very helpful. It'd be slick if it could somehow read the value of the [Media Sub Type] field and pick which field to send based on that information. So, for TV Shows, it could send [Series] instead (or maybe [Series] - [Season] or something). Perhaps this could just be solved by the future "Manage Links" capability though...
And then one not-so-tiny thing I'd suggest...
My standard internal-browser complaint, which I won't bother to rehash here other than to say: I can't use this on my HTPC, because the font is too small to read from the couch (without a full-page zoom feature). That's unfortunate because that's where the Links feature would really be the most useful. Either a more "integrated" approach (that'd be hard) or a simple option to open Links in an external browser would solve this problem for me.
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