[quote="Lowlander"]Button look is a skinners choice. Some skins don't even have it (right click on Play/Pause button to access it). I suggest you D&D into the Now Playing window to control where files are added.[/quote]
JoePublic says he uses the button in the toolbar. That uses the stop button icon and is not able to be defined differently from the stop icon by the skinner. So that would be a valid item for the wishlist.

Button look is a skinners choice. Some skins don't even have it (right click on Play/Pause button to access it). I suggest you D&D into the Now Playing window to control where files are added.

I presume that if you want customized behavior that it can be scripted like: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=53655&hilit=stop+after+current

You are correct, and I plead guilty to providing some of that feedback. (I'm sure I also asked for it to be a user choice.) In the ensuing discussion, I became convinced that there were circumstances where it would be best for it [u]not[/u] to advance to the next song. As it turns out (karma?), for the past 3 years or so, I've been using MM under just those circumstances a lot of the time. I do a webcast where I take music requests in real-time and often want to insert a song or songs immediately after the "current" song. If the "current" song is still playing, no problem. But if the current song has finished, then I can't queue up a song to play "next" without remembering to press the "<<" button first. So it's an inconvenience, not a show-stopper. I was just hoping there was some option somewhere where it could be set back to the old behavior. Or maybe an addon, since I don't seem to be very knowledgeable about what some of the addons will do.

(The example given way back when was in the case of DJ-ing, btw. Similar activity.)

I also recall at the time suggesting that the "Stop After Current" button be given a different look than the regular "Stop" button so as to differentiate the two. (They both are a red square, then and now.) This would be useful if you have both controls on a visible toolbar. It would be easy to forget which control was which when looking at them. BUT, I've adapted to that & don't care anymore.

And I recall asking that the "Stop After Current" control be turned into a toggle. In MM3, if you pressed "Stop After Current" and then changed your mind, it was "tough luck Charlie". You couldn't undo it. In the current MM4, I see that they [u]did[/u] change the control so that it toggles. So, that's a welcome change.

I might open a thread in the wishlist section asking for a user choice for this control or perhaps for a separate "Stop After Current and Don't Advance" control. SACDA for short.

I'm fairly certain there was negative feedback on the MM3 behavior as it stopped on current and not after, which didn't allow you to use Play to start the next track as expected, instead it repeated the same track which wouldn't be expected.

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No

I'm a little gun shy after some earlier posts in different threads, but here goes.

The situation: I am playing a music playlist and there are songs queued up that haven't played yet. I want the currently-playing song (let's call it Song #1) to stop when it is done, so I press the Stop After Current button. (I created a toolbar that includes that button because it's something I use a lot.)

In MM3, Song #1 would stop playing when done and that's it. In MM 4.1.1.1703, Song #1 stops playing when done, but then the "focus" shifts to the next song (Song #2) in the playlist. The problem with that is that if I want to add a song (Song X) to "Play Next" (which I do often), in MM4 Song X queues up after the as yet unplayed Song #2. In MM3, Song X would queue up after Song #1, and that is the desired action (for me, at least).

So my question is, is there a way to get back to having the "focus" remain on Song #1, and not advance to Song #2, when using Stop After Current? I've tried to find the answer on my own but came up empty.