Re: double-click to "add to now playing list"

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It auto-saves preferences on exit.

I apologize: the various ninety-five postings on this general subject (five
by you within some span of time, grin) had me misreading the exact context
*here*.

The "add only item to now playing queue" via shift-double-click or "only
play item x" via double-click is possible. The "double-click-queues-only"
isn't possible except via shift-double-click and I don't believe there's any
way around that. The only possible method for redress at this point is to
take it to product support, and even then you're likely going to need to
wait for a full version update before the team gets a chance to address
"power user" wants.

I keep configuring my system to do the annoying-to-me play-one-track
setting, which the OTHER contingent wanted, and that got distorted with YOUR
contingent of peoples, who want queue-only-with-no-shift-or-etc. As far as
I know, that's dead in the water at this point.

-Zach
--
Windows Media Development Team (speaking for myself only)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Paul E. Stansberry, III" <PaulEStansberryIII@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message news:93E90552-0AA2-4952-AEAF-4D785E2D8A5D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Zach -

I appreciate your patience, but I've downloaded TweakMP and tried all the
settings in there, including restarting WMP and it doesn't seem to have
any
effect on the double-click action. Still when I double-click a track in
the
library the player instantly queues to that track and plays begins playing
it, and if I double-click more than one in a row my "Now playing" list
gets
into a funky state.

I didn't see a way to "save" the preferences in the TweakMP UI. Am I
missing a step?

Thanks,
Paul

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


It's not left out of WMP11, and you keep confusing me about that. =) To
quote myself from my last post:

Get TweakMP from http://wmplugins.com . Use that to change WMP's default
option for
double-click.

Yes, I know it says it's for v9.

I swear upon my grandfather's grave that this works. I keep retesting
this
because people aren't listening and saying "it's not possible", and thus
I
accidentally leave myself in this state and it's getting fairly annoying.
So... please, please, just try this and enjoy it. I promise it's there
and
works. =) *I* don't want to use it, so please don't have me configure
it
that way again for the sixth time. =)

-Zach
--
Windows Media Development Team (speaking for myself only)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
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"Paul E. Stansberry, III" <PaulEStansberryIII@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in message
news:68E49EDB-B4EB-40FF-99E3-8EFD47EF2957@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Zach - Is there any real compelling reason that this was left out of of
WMP11? Every post that I've come across so far related to this seems
to
avoid the issue like the plague. There are plenty of users out there
that
want control of the double-click action back! I know that I, for
example,
want to set double-click in the library to add the current selected
song
to
the currently playing list, not queue that entire album up IN PLACE of
what I
was listening to...

Paul

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


"AL" <AL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I often go straight to my Library when I start WPM11 and look for a
song
or
album that i want to play. I usually double-click on a song that i
want
to
listen to and then get annoyed when i realise that i've just cued my
entire
library. If i'm clever eough to remember this detestable
characteristic
of
WMP11, then I will (instead) add individual songs to my now playing
list
by
holding down the shift key and clicking on the song titles in WMP11
Library,
while wishing that there was a simpler way to do this.

Making the huge majority cases work better / more cleanly in return
for
one
more click here and there for the non-standard usage cases needs to be
an
acceptable if hopefully temporary loss. You want some sort of "one
more
check box" extensibility - that's yet another method of complication
that
helps overwhelm the basic user that comprises such a huge chunk of the
people that will be looking at Vista / WMP11.

Anyways, I don't think there's any more technical information I can
add
here, so I'll bow out of the conversation now. I'm with you here, but
a)
it's not my call and b) the best you'd even want to offer would be
some
TweakMP-ish feature here, and it was really too late in the product
cycle
to
do that.

What I'd do if I were you would be to make a list of the minor tweaks
here
and there and post them to the relevant feedback forums (this may
still
be
one of the best...?) in about four months or so. (Since that gives
Vista
time to settle some.)

Cheers,
-Zach
--
Windows Media Development Team (speaking for myself only)
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.








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