Rob_S wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:02 pm
It does not appear when I manually re-arrange the tracks to the order I would like. It also does not appear when I sort by column inside the now playing. So this still leaves me with no way to save a custom sequence which is not a column sort.
Also, as mentioned by OP, after a while drag and drop becomes disabled in the now playing.
Given that most times I use "Now playing" while displaying "All Tracks" or search results in the main window, this is not very satisfactory.
The desired interface should be that I can re-arrange songs inside "Now playing" by any available means and have them automatically play in that display order.
If that bother some people, then at least can we have a "save order" button inside "now Playing" which would become available after a column sort and/or after manually rearranging my tracks?
If this is not considered a bug, then can it be a feature request?
ps This now seems like a downgrade from the old now playing, at least as long as I used non-shuffle mode, I recall that I could randomize and rearrange to suit, and it would play in display order.
You constantly mix Now Playing (Right Panel) and Playing (tree node and tracks in Main Track browser). these two are two complete different views and can't/do not contain same features.
Now playing do not have columns only Summary column, while Playing note is fully fledged Static playlist with its functions like sorting, D&D is permanent (except when you made custom sort and done also manual D&D which will then not update until you confirm sort+D&D order on save button.
In Now Playing and in Playing D&D is permanent so once you move tracks it is there (except above note).
Randomize Now Playing was in MM 5.0.4 and as I mentioned number of times it is still not decided to bring it back as new shuffle mode is not fully featured ready and scheduled for future updates which bring it bact ATM will make things worse.
I have not seen that D&D stops working in both Now Playing and Playing. Can you make steps so that we can try to replicate. I tested D&D for 2h and moved 200+ tracks and track selections around Now playing and it worked each time. Only moving in front of first track take precision as drop space is bit smaller and have delay to show you where it will end up.
Rob_S wrote: ↑Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:40 pm
The more I play with it, the more it looks to be totally messed up.
I can't drag and drop from main window to now playing. I can't find a way to revert now playing to the order in which it will play.
I try shuffle mode, and it does not shuffle.
All this happens after a few attempts to sort "Now Playing" by a column, and then try to rearrange a couple of tracks by drag and drop up or down
Are we two the only ones having this issue???
Again I think you mix Now playing and Playing (tree node) two different views, one summary one Static playlist.
Re shuffle: After enabling shuffle and then re arranged tracks I disabled Shuffle and enabled it and it shuffled tracks again. What exactly it does not work for you?
When You drag and drop you need to make sure that Drop line shows if it dos not show it means either that to dragged track(s) to middle of text or that you didn't waited till MM recalculates playback order (that depends on number of tracks in now playing). Hope I cleared something here
If not will be glad to explain.
If you remember we only started to reinvent Shuffle mode in 5.1 and will be improved a lot in future. I am first that was not satisfied with current behavior, but we discovered something new and much much better.
EDIT: As you noticed Now playing do not have columns, but you can edit what info will be shown in Playback Rules.
