by xhepera » Tue May 26, 2009 8:48 pm
I'm sorry if I was confusing. I will be upgrading the installation to see if that makes a difference. But so that I am clear on what I was doing, these are the steps I followed. And I now have another take on what was going wrong, which I will explain.
Okay, so I open up MM and I am presented with 3 sections; to the far left is the node list. I navigate to the playlist node and choose the appropriate playlist I want to edit. When I clcik on that playlist name, what I have been calling the "central window" is populated with the tracks in the playlist that I've selected. On the far right is another "window/area that holds docked panels that I've opened, such as the Track Browser or the Now Playing panel.
I was attempting to reorder the tracks in that middle area and was unable to do so. I found that if I opened the Now Playing panel it was populated with a different set of tracks than my playlist tracks. It was, in fact, populated with everything that I had played at some prior point. But I found that if I clicked List/Load Playlist/ then selected the playlist I wanted, the NP panel now showed my playlist and I could reorder the tracks as I wanted them.
What I also discovered just a bit ago is that the "view" I was using for that middle window/area had an effect on my ability to move the tracks around. I always use the "Show Album Art with Details" mode. Can't reorder the tracks in that mode it turns out. At least I can't. When I switched to "Show Details" mode it became possible to drag the tracks around and reorder them in that middle window.
So, once again, it seems that my lack of understanding of some things was the culprit. And, once again, thanks to you folks for helping me figure it out.
I'm sorry if I was confusing. I will be upgrading the installation to see if that makes a difference. But so that I am clear on what I was doing, these are the steps I followed. And I now have another take on what was going wrong, which I will explain.
Okay, so I open up MM and I am presented with 3 sections; to the far left is the node list. I navigate to the playlist node and choose the appropriate playlist I want to edit. When I clcik on that playlist name, what I have been calling the "central window" is populated with the tracks in the playlist that I've selected. On the far right is another "window/area that holds docked panels that I've opened, such as the Track Browser or the Now Playing panel.
I was attempting to reorder the tracks in that middle area and was unable to do so. I found that if I opened the Now Playing panel it was populated with a different set of tracks than my playlist tracks. It was, in fact, populated with everything that I had played at some prior point. But I found that if I clicked List/Load Playlist/ then selected the playlist I wanted, the NP panel now showed my playlist and I could reorder the tracks as I wanted them.
What I also discovered just a bit ago is that the "view" I was using for that middle window/area had an effect on my ability to move the tracks around. I always use the "Show Album Art with Details" mode. Can't reorder the tracks in that mode it turns out. At least I can't. When I switched to "Show Details" mode it became possible to drag the tracks around and reorder them in that middle window.
So, once again, it seems that my lack of understanding of some things was the culprit. And, once again, thanks to you folks for helping me figure it out.